Service-Oriented Architecture Course Information
Pre-course Exercise
- You will be asked to do about 2 hours of pre-course homework and present it in class.
Recommended Experience
- Some involvement creating business applications
Who would benefit most from this training
- This course is for any one involved in designing service oriented architectures: business analysts, project leads, system architects, and developers.
- In this course we determine what services an organisation requires and how those services should be designed and organised to support the needs of the organisation and the service’s consumers. The course does not cover the business logic that would be developed to implement the services (instead see, course 577 (Java) or 2601 (.NET)).
About the software used
- While REST-based applications are emphasized, the role for WSDL/SOAP services and queue-based services are also discussed. Additionally, Enterprise Architect, Professional Edition is used for SoaML modelling.
Service-Oriented Architecture Course Outline
Integrating the Organisation and its SOA
- Driving the SOA from business processes
- Drawing services from the organization's purpose
- Fitting SOA design into project management
Architecting Services
Service-oriented design process
- Progressing from conceptual to buildable services
- Structuring business requirements into an SOA
- Executing a self-correcting design process
Turning services into modern applications
- Leveraging the REST architectural style
- Realising the key SOA best practises
Mapping Services to Your Organisation
Discovering conceptual services
- Defining the service domain
- Recognising service opportunities
- Improving manageability and maintainability
Refining the conceptual design
- Identifying the underlying resource for the service
- Applying the Single Responsibility Principle
- Merging existing assets with new opportunities
Applying Design Patterns
Developing the SOA Interface/h2>
- Integrating consumer requirments
- Exploiting design patterns
- Facade
- Asynchronous
- Publish/Subscribe
- Bus
Achieving effective designs
- Maintaining loose coupling
- Addressing long running operations
- Delivering information efficiently
- Supporting evolving and agile processes
Addressing the business needs
- Designing for reuse and integration
- Consolidating to Eliminate duplicate services
Factoring in brokers
- Identifying “services for services”
- Routers
- Transformers
- Filters
- Aggregators
Converting Designs into Specifications
Specifying operations
- Deriving operations from use cases
- Identifying design flaws early to take corrective action
- Focusing on resources not transactions
Communicating the specification
- Constructing reusable service actions
- Expressing your design as a specification
- Understanding the role of contracts
Messaging for services
- Formatting the operation's messages
- Evolving messages from the SOA design
- Designing to the right level of message granularity
Finalising the service design
- Creating reference message formats
- Managing message formats with JSON Schema
Transitioning from Design to Implementation
Planning for implementation
- Picking the right technology set
- Matching technology to the three SOA scenarios
- Leveraging RESTful implementations
Building services
- Creating services from the SOA modelling process
- Picking the right prtocols for the business needs
- Orchestrating services to deliver new functionality
Structuring services
- Organising to deal with change
- Queuing request to achieve scalability
Avoiding Common Problems
Applying “Lessons Learned” to improve designs
- Identifying the change-related threats
- Dealing with change and growth
Ensuring performance
- “Governing the SOA
- Identifying the critical stakeholders
Managing the SOA Environment
Instituting an SOA infrastructure (SOAIS)
- Advancing up the Services Integration Maturity Model
- Leveraging Enterprise Services Buses (ESB)
Service-Oriented Architecture Training FAQs
What is Service-Oriented Architecture?
Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a software development approach in which applications use services available in the network. Services are provided to form applications through a communication call over the internet.
What software is used in this SOA training course?
While REST-based applications are emphasized, the role for WSDL/SOAP services and queue-based services are also discussed. Additionally, Enterprise Architect, Professional Edition is used for SoaML modelling.
Can I learn Service-Oriented Architecture online?
Yes! We know your busy work schedule may prevent you from getting to one of our classrooms which is why we offer convenient online training to meet your needs wherever you want.