Introduction to SOA Course Outline

Introduction to SOA

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This class requires 5 or more students

Course Length:

1 Day

Course Description:

This course provides an introduction to the concepts of Service Oriented Architecture. This course discusses some of the key issues facing many organizations, especially dealing with integration among disparate systems. Participants will learn how SOA addresses these issues and its many other benefits. The course also discusses related technologies such as Enterprise Service Bus and its relationship with SOA. The participants then look at the various SOA patterns that can be used as a basis for developing SOA applications. Participants also go through case studies to better visualize the role of SOA.

Who Should Attend:

This course is for J2EE developers, architects, project leaders, and project managers who would like to gain an understanding of SOA and its advantages.

Benefits of Attendance:

Upon completion of this course, students will be able to:

Describe the fundamentals of SOA.
Understand the business advantages of SOA.
Explain the SOA runtime elements.
Describe the concept of an Enterprise Service Bus.
Understand the role of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) in SOA.
Identify features of typical SOA Framework Products.
Patterns Map to SOA.

Prerequisites:

No specialized technical prerequisites are required for this course. However, a basic knowledge in IT systems and distributed computing is expected.

Course Outline:

SOA Fundamentals
1. Objectives
2. Defining Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
3. Putting SOA in Context
4. SOA as an Alignment Strategy
5. The SOA Umbrella
6. What's a Service?
7. Service Actors
8. Serving Up SOA
9. Business Process Management
10. BPM & Workflow
11. SOA Governance
12. SOA Governance Model
13. SOA Job Role Impact
14. Services Please!
15. SOA Re-Organization
16. What Makes a Good Design?
17. Is This a New Concept?
18. Service Orienting the Enterprise
19. Service Oriented Thinking
20. SOA Is Perfect NOT!
21. Service Characteristics
22. When Do I Need a Service?
23. About Services in SOA
24. Contract-Driven Software
25. SOA Standards
26. Summary
Layers of Services
1. Objectives
2. What Is Layering?
3. SOA Layers
4. Common Layers
5. Auxiliary Layers
6. Digesting the Layers
7. The Application Service Layer
8. The Business Service Layer
9. The Orchestration Layer
10. Layering Rules of Thumb
11. Scope of a Service
12. SOA User Interface
13. Portal Site's Context Awareness
14. Web 2.0 Data Aggregation
15. Summary
SOA Value Proposition
1. Objectives
2. The SOA Value Proposition
3. Reducing Integration Expense
4. Integration Costs Illustration
5. Ripple effect of changes
6. The Value of SOA Layering
7. SOA Reduces Integration Costs
8. Increasing Asset Reuse
9. SOA Economics/ROI
10. Asset Reuse Illustration
11. Service Reuse v. Object Reuse
12. Increasing Business Agility
13. Business Agility Illustration
14. Traditional EAI Approach
15. Problems with Traditional EAI Approach
16. Change Flow Using Legacy Approach
17. SOA Agility
18. Build the Services
19. Build the Process
20. We Can Easily Change the Process
21. Reducing Business Risk
22. Risk reduction illustration
23. SOA Eases Compliance Risk
24. Other Advantages
25. Business Advantages
26. Hasn't This Been Said Before?
27. ROI Quantification Hurdles
28. Real World SOA Example 1
29. Real World SOA Example 2
30. Real World SOA Example 3
31. Real World SOA Example 4
32. Summary
Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
1. Objectives
2. SOA and the ESB Pattern
3. Loose Coupling
4. Service Invocation
5. Business Process
6. Data Integration
7. Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)
8. Legacy System Integration
9. Unsupported Protocol
10. The Role of ESB in SOA
11. ESB: Software Artifacts
12. Business Process
13. Business Process: Example
14. Minimum ESB Capabilities
15. Minimum ESB Capabilities: Integration
16. Minimum ESB Capabilities: Communication
17. Minimum ESB Capabilities: Service Interaction
18. Minimum ESB Capabilities: Management
19. Security and ESB
20. Summary
SOA Infrastructure and Tools
1. SOA Infrastructure and Tools
2. Network Appliances
3. Enterprise Service Bus
4. Service Container
5. Business Rules Engine
6. Business Activity Monitoring
7. Service & Policy Management
8. Business Process Engine
9. Service Registry
10. Service Repository
11. Development Tools
12. Tool Combinations
13. What is the minimum?
Governance Fundamentals
1. Objectives
2. The Strategic Role of IT
3. Governing IT
4. IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
5. ITIL: Managing IT Activities
6. ICT Infrastructure Management (ICTIM)
7. ICTIM Processes
8. Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT)
9. Need for SOA Governance
10. SOA Governance
11. SOA Governance Adoption
12. Key Governance Relationships
13. SOA Governance Elements
14. SOA Governance Procedures
15. Recommended Procedures
16. More Recommended Procedure
17. SOA Governance Policies
18. Enterprise Policies
19. Business Policies
20. Service Policies
21. SOA Governance Metrics
22. More SOA Governance Metrics
23. Some Best Practices
24. Relevant Standards Work
25. OASIS SOA-RM
26. Reference Model in Context
27. OASIS SOA-RA
28. Summary
Appendix A. Glossary
Appendix B. Introduction to Web Services
1. Objectives
2. A Conceptual Look at Services
3. Defining Services
4. Service Communication Analogy
5. Three Key Service Questions
6. Connecting the Dots
7. SOA: Runtime Implementation
8. What Is a Web Service?
9. Enterprise Assets as Services
10. Typical Development Workflow
11. Advantages of Web Services
12. Web Service Business Models
13. Example: Internal System Integration
14. Example: Business Process Externalization
15. Binding via SOAP
16. SOAP in Protocol Stack
17. SOAP Structure
18. SOAP Message Architecture
19. Applying SOAP
20. Interface via WSDL
21. WSDL Structure
22. Applying WSDL
23. Locating a Service
24. UDDI Overview
25. UDDI Terminology
26. UDDI Structure
27. Applying UDDI
28. WS-I Overview
29. WS-I Deliverables
30. Summary