Web Services and SOA Bootcamp

Target Population: Systems Architects & Developers
Pre-Requisites: None, although basic knowledge of a programming language such as Java, C# or Visual Basic would be helpful for hands-on exercises.
Duration/Format: 4 Days. This is a course involving lectures and hands-on exercises, delivered by an expert instructor.

Course Description

Our most comprehensive course on Web services, this four-day course includes all of the material covered in our other Web services courses plus additional hands-on exercises in both J2EE and .NET environments. Appropriate for technical resources who want to understand Web services from a management, architectural and technical perspective, this course offers an intensive introduction to Web services and its many possibilities.

Objectives

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

Describe Web services and how they enable application integration.
Understand the benefits of adopting a Web services approach.
Provide an overview of the Service-Oriented Architecture approach and how Web services implement SOA in today's networking infrastructures.
Understand and use the key Web services technologies of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI.
Understand how to present legacy backend systems as Web services.
Architect, deploy and build basic Web services applications in both .NET and J2EE environments.
Identify integration use cases that would benefit from a Web services approach.
Utilize best practices to increase the effectiveness of Web services.
Identify areas where Web services can have an immediate impact within their enterprise.

Detailed Course Content

Web Services - Setting the Stage

A simple live interactive scenario
Points to be made about the demo

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!
Summary

Web Services Technologies (including lab exercises)

XML Technologies
- Base XML documents
- XML Schema
- XSLT (Transformations)
- o Parsing approaches (DOM, SAX)
SOAP
- General processing model
- Structure of SOAP Messages
- Header, Body and Fault elements
WSDL
- Development vs Execution Time Model
- Components of WSDL
- Sample WSDL file examination
UDDI
- Registering services
- Discovering services through registries

Web Services Tools and Demo (including lab exercises)

WS Development Approaches
- Top down - starting with WSDL
- Bottom up - integrating existing systems
Typical WS Development/Deployment Components
- Tool sets
Development Demo Scenarios
- Automatic client generation
- Hello World - VB.NET client creation
- Stock Quote - VB.NET client creation
Server Code Generation
Tools To Create WSDL files
Web Services Interoperability Demo (WSID)
- Live demo with remote services
- Services which invoke other services