Designing SOA Solutions with the IBM SOA Foundation UK Classes & Lessons (IBM)

Also known as: RA91GBGB

About this class

This course teaches and promotes best practices for Service Oriented Architecture using the IBM SOA Foundation, featuring the use of Rational Software products in conjunction with the appropriate WebSphere and Tivoli software products. Students follow the Rational Unified Process to identify, specify and realise an SOA solution.

Who will the lesson benefit?

The following groups may find portions of the course to be relevant:

Process Advisors
Project Managers
Business Analysts
Business Application Server

What delegates will learn

Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to:

Explain business and technical value of SOA
Describe IBM's SOA reference architecture and IBM SOA Foundation
Describe programming model and standards
Describe integrations
Describe SOA governance and identify roles and responsibilities of architects within SOA governance
Describe IBM's SOA Entry Points: Service creation scenario, Service connectivity scenario and business process management scenario, and the business drivers for these scenarios
Apply the process framework offered by RUP to the design and development of BPM SOA using Service Creation and Service Connectivity as necessary.
Integrate and choreograph a set of services.
Describe how to realize services and mediations using Service Component Architecture, Service Data Object, and Message Data Object based programming model.
Describe SOA Security
Monitor and Manage a SOA solution.

What prerequisites are required

This course is not intended for infrastructure architects. To benefit from this course, students should be experienced in:

Creating enterprise application architectures and integration architectures using Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and/or Business Process Modeling (BPM)
Architecting Web services and J2EE based solutions
Applying Relational Unified Process (RUP) based software development methodologies and techniques
Modeling software architectures using UML2
Tools and runtime including Rational Software Architect, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, WebSphere Process Server

Contents of this class

IBM SOA Foundation
SOA Governance
IBM SOA scenarios
Business Process Modeling
Service Design Principles
Service Identification
Service Oriented Integration
Service Specification
Service Realisation
SOA Programming Model
WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere ESB
SOA Security
Service Management and Monitoring