Web Services and SOA for Architects

Target Population: Systems Architects
Pre-Requisites: None
Duration/Format: 1 Day. This is a course involving lectures and demos delivered by an expert instructor.

Course Description

A full-day course that provides Architects with the key architectural concepts they need to successfully integrate Web services technologies into their IT designs, with an emphasis on Service-Oriented Architecture and related concepts. The course enables architects to identify integration patterns best suited for Web services technologies and explores Web services design best practices.

Objectives

Upon the completion of this one-day course, the participants will be able to:

Describe Web services and how they enable application integration.
Provide an overview of the Service-Oriented Architecture approach and how Web services implement SOA in today's networking infrastructures.
Create effective architectures for Web services applications.
Identify integration use cases that would benefit from a Web services approach.
Utilize best practices to increase the effectiveness of Web services.

Detailed Course Content

Web Services - Setting the Stage

A simple live interactive scenario

Why Web Services?

Different reasons for different people!
- Cost-centric - largest IT cost is labor
- Integration-centric
- Business-driven
- Reuse-centric
- The answer is always a mixture
Web Services are not for everything!

Web Services Technologies