SOA for Architects and Managers Overview Training Course

A Service Oriented Methodology

• Introduction to a SOA adoption roadmap
• Three analysis approaches
• Service oriented analysis

Advantages of SOA

• Traditional EAI Approach
• Problems With Traditional EAI Approach
• Enter Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
• We Can Easily Change the Process
• Changing Flow Using Legacy Approach
• Replacing an Application
• Other Advantages
• Business Advantages
• Adoption Stages

SOA Past and Present

• From XML to Web Service to SOA
• How SOA was done before
• Emerging standards for SOA
• Compare SOA with other architectures

What is service oriented architecture?

• What is SOA?
• Creating a common understanding of SOA
• The evolution of SOA
• Introducing the concepts of services and SOA
• Design principles of SOA
• The relationship between SOA and web services
• The advantages and risks of SOA

Introduction to modelling and UML

• Why use models with SOA
• The difference between model and methodology
• Why use the Unified Modelling Language?
• Identifying business processes
• Notation, Patterns and Methodology
• Which Methodology to choose?

Introduction to Business Processes

• How a collection of services performs a task
• Simple request response interaction
• Complex interaction involving many services
• Need for a coordinator service emerges
• Birth of orchestration or business process
• Composing processes using Business Process Execution Language (BPEL)
• BPM based solutions for orchestration
• Example business processes

Web Services

• Basic web services elements
• Core web services standards stack
• The Importance of WSDL
• The design of SOAP
• The use of registries via UDDI
• The basic concepts of service orientation

Distributing Services Across a Network

• Aligning functional and non-functional requirements
• The role of Intermediaries in Service Networks
• Introductions to WS-* extensions
• SOA tenets

Modelling SOA building blocks

• Using UML to analyse and design interfaces
• Generating a domain model
• Implementing and realising Use Cases
• Showing web service collaboration
• Usage of communication diagrams

Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)

• Objectives
• Service Invocation
• Legacy System Integration
• Web Services to the Rescue
• The role of ESB in SOA
• Security and ESB

Process Driven Services

• Service layer abstraction
• Introduction to business process layer
• Process patterns
• Orchestration and choreography
• The use of WS-BPEL for process automation

Service Oriented Reference Model

• Reference models and reference architectures
• The IMPACT SOA reference model and architecture
• SOA vendors and their relationship with SOA
• SOA support in .NET and Java EE platforms

Layered Architecture

• The layers pattern
• Classic three-tier architecture
• Connecting to the domain layer
• Linking to the User interface
• Using packages to decompose a system
• Avoiding mutual dependencies
• What is layering and why do we need it?
• Application service layer
• Business service layer
• Orchestration service layer