Introduction to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Training

Service-Oriented Architecture Course Outline

• Integrating the Organization 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
  • Realizing the key SOA best practices

• Mapping Services to Your Organization

  Discovering conceptual services

  • Defining the service domain
  • Recognizing 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

  Finalizing 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 modeling process
  • Picking the right prtocols for the business needs
  • Orchestrating services to deliver new functionality

  Structuring services

  • Organizing 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)