Introduction

SOA Concepts

• SOA definitions from Gartner, W3C ...
• Basic SOA concepts : what are the concepts behind SOA (subdivide method agreement, use existing, change for commercial r
• Why to use SOA ? We develop the reasons to implement SOA and approach the advantages and the risks in implementing SOA i
• SOA stereotypes : common ideas about SOA. What SOA is or what it i not; What SOA covers or what it does not cover.
• Service concepts. We explain the key features of services: service contract (abstract and concrete WSDL, WS Policy, SLA.

SOA Governance

• What are the definitions of SOA Governance: by Gartner, by Hoogervorst...
• What is a SOA Roadmap: the SOA project lifecycle - What are the main steps to implement SOA architecture in a company? H
• State of the situation - Why to use of different maturity models to estimate the state of the situation: to improve SOA

SOA Technical Architecture

• Services infrastructure : what are the common components you find in a SOA platform. Preview of BPEL, BPMN, ESB, JMS, E
• WSDL Contract to describe services: a practical example of the abstract and concrete parts of a service.
• WS-standards and their implementations : what are the different current standards for the following fields : security, t
• Implementation of WS with Java: presentation of different Java implementation standards as JAX-RPC, JAX-WS, JAXB to deve
• Services orchestration : What are the standard behind this concept ? (Such as BPMN, BPEL, SCA (service components archit
• Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) : notion and basic features : transport, routing, transformation ..., definition of EDA (Ev
• Services Registry : research and publication of services through UDDI standard.
• Services Repository : enterprise reference system to document services, to manage services lifecycle (versions, variants
• Business Rules (BR) : how to use them to increase business processes agility ? What is the typical implementation of Bus
• Master Data Management (MDM) : what is the business issues and how to manage the reference data of an enterprise ?
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) : It is a tool of supervision and piloting of the processes. It allows to define busi
• Complex Event Processing (CEP): Enables Advanced Event-Driven Analysis & Pattern Detection. Provides IT Users with a Ric

Actors and the products of the market

• Criteria for selecting a SOA platform : general criteria whatever the tool and specific criteria.
• Offers of the market: commercial software (IBM, Oracle, TIBCO...), open source (Mule, JBoss...), ?hybrid solution? (JBos