Service-Oriented Architecture: Strategy, Technology and Methodology Training Course

This course is intended for Post Graduate (or equivalent) level students and will be a combination of lectures and lab sessions (theory and practice).

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

Knowledge and Understanding.

• Understand the principles and business advantage of systems developed around services.
• Become fully aware of the major protocols and technologies involved in the web services standard, and understand how these technologies fit together. Your knowledge will extend to leading-edge and emerging aspects of web services as well as the more established elements of the standard.
• Understand in depth the technology used to enable systems based on a widely used programming language to both use and provide Web Services.

Intellectual Skills:

• Identify where the service oriented approach and in particular web services are appropriate for particular business scenarios.
• Consider the most effective design for a web services solution
• Acquire, in the future, knowledge and understanding of emerging aspects of the rapidly evolving web services standard

Practical Skills:

• Operate with current technologies associated with Web Services that are platform neutral – XML, SOAP, WSDL
• Write and expose web services in a widely used programming language and write client code in that language to invoke web services.