Service Oriented Architecture

Unit I: Roots of SOA

• Characteristics of SOA

• Comparing SOA to Client-Server and Distributed Internet Architectures

• Anatomy of SOA

• How Components in an SOA Interrelate

• Principles of Service Orientation

Unit II: Web Services & Messaging

• Service Descriptions

• Messaging with SOAP

• Message Exchange Patterns

• Coordination

• Atomic Transactions

Unit III: Business Activities & Service Layers

• Orchestration

• Choreography

• Service Layer Abstraction

  • Application Service Layer

  • Business Service Layer

  • Orchestration Service Layer

• Service-Oriented Analysis

  • Business-Centric SOA

  • Deriving Business Services

  • Service Modeling

Unit IV: Service-Oriented Design

• WSDL Basics

• SOAP Basics

• SOA Composition Guidelines

• Entity-Centric Business Service Design

• Application Service Design

• Task-Centric Business Service Design

Unit V: SOA Platform Basics

• SOA Support in J2EE

• Java API for XML-based Web Services (JAX-WS)

• Java Architecture for XML Binding (JAXB)

• Java API for XML Registries (JAXR)

• Java API for XML-based RPC (JAX-RPC)

• Web Services Interoperability Technologies (WSIT)

• SOA Support in .NET

  • Common Language Runtime

  • ASP.NET Web Forms

  • ASP.NET Web Services

  • Web Services Enhancements (WSE)

Unit VI: WS- Standards*

• WS-BPEL Basics

• WS-Coordination Overview

• WS-Choreography

• WS-Policy

• WS-Security