As more and more business processes within organizations become automated, IT systems and applications increasingly must be integrated together to meet business needs.  Today’s software architects, project managers, and developers should understand the open technologies involved in service-oriented solutions and how they come together to create more flexible business systems.
This 1-day seminar explains the fundamental concepts behind service oriented solutions and what SOA means to today’s businesses.  It also dives into the fundamental technologies such as XML, SOAP, and web service extensions that combine to enable standards-based web services and explains how they work together to create powerful service oriented architectures at the application and enterprise solution levels. Finally, this course discusses the most important considerations in implementing web services and applying SOA principles within an application, organization, or network of businesses.

Audience:

• Anyone in the software technology field looking for an overview of SOA concepts & technologies.

Duration:
This Service Oriented Architecture Seminar can be executed in one of two forms:

• Detailed full-day seminar – 1 day
• Brief executive overview – 2 hours

Students will learn to:

• Describe the core features of service oriented architectures
• Explain the benefits of services oriented architectures
• Explain the costs and detriments of distributed systems architectures
• Write simple eXtensible Markup Language (XML) documents
• Design a web service contract
• Identify the features of a WSDL service definition
• Explain the common uses of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• Describe the features of the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
• Use SOAP and WSDL to define web service interfaces
• Use UDDI and WSIL to register and find web service definitions
• Understand the benefits of web service extensions
• List and describe the extensions to web services in WSE2
• List and describe the extensions to web services in WSE3
• Describe service-oriented application architectures and their benefits
• Describe service-oriented enterprise architectures and their benefits
• Explain the impact of SOA on small solutions
• Explain the impact of SOA at the enterprise level