Delegates
have the option of attending Day 1 or Day 2 only.
Day 1 – Service Oriented Architecture: Technology & Products
Day 2 – Service Oriented Architecture: Guidelines & Best Practices
for Designing SOAs
Speaker:
Rick van der Lans, R20/Consultancy
"Very detailed
info about SOA technologies. Very knowledgeable and humorous."
William Hutton, SO2 Information Integration, CSDC
"Very good
speaker. Articulate and knowledgeable."
Douglas Liddell, Solution Architect, EDS
"Excellent
lecturing style with right balance between light hearted and serious."
John Welsh, Technical Architect,
Serco
IT Managers
Technology Planners
Technical Architects
Enterprise Architects
IT Consultants
IT Strategists
Business Analysts
Systems Analysts
Systems Developers
Systems Designers
Database Developers
Database Managers
Solutions Architects
Data Architects
and all those considering
using Service Oriented Architecture to integrate their systems.
High on the agenda of many
organisations is the integration of their vast number of isolated information
systems. Many integration technologies have been introduced in the last decennium.
The technology for the coming era is based on XML, (web)services, and other
standards: the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). SOA will become the backbone
of many IT departments and with that it will become the information backbone
of organisations themselves. All information exchange will pass through this
architecture.
Due to mergers, new regulations
and market changes, companies are looking at what SOA could mean for them. For
some, SOA will be the basis for the automation of business processes. Others
see it as a means to gradually remove their legacy systems, and others see it
as a means to transform their organisation into an agile organisation – one
that can adapt quicker to market changes and opportunities.
Day 1 of
this seminar presents an in-depth overview of the products and the technologies
that are available today to develop SOA. The main product for implementing SOA
is the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This new generation of products is based
on widely adopted standards such as XML and SOAP and comprises most of the technologies
needed for SOA including a BPEL engine, adaptors, content based routers and
business rules engines.
Day 2 will
describe the crucial guidelines when designing SOA. It is based on experiences
gained at several SOA projects. Several issues need to be addressed when designing
SOAs. Products need to be selected and a global architecture must be designed.
How will existing applications, that at first were not meant to be integrated,
be linked to the SOA? What does a document oriented interface for services mean?
Management of SOA should also be organised carefully. Should Business Activity
Monitoring be considered or not? How should billing, service level agreements
and security be dealt with? These, and many more questions need to be answered
before SOA can be designed and built.
Day 1
Learn how an organisation
could benefit from SOA
Learn how different
technologies are needed to develop SOA
Understand what the
differences are between SOA-related technologies and other older integrations
solutions
Learn how an Enterprise
Service Bus speeds up the development of SOA
Day 2
Avoid well known pitfalls
Learn from real life
experiences and understand the best practices for designing services and
interfaces
Learn about the different
service layers that make up a loosely coupled SOA
DAY 1
Introduction to
services and SOA
From components to
services
XML as format data
interchange
Advantages and disadvantages
of SOA
Invoking services
Data exchange with
SOAP
WSDL: the language
for describing the interfaces of services
Transaction support
for services
UDDI and WSIL for
discovering services
Dealing with the semantics
of interfaces
Orchestration
of services
Automating business
processes using BPEL
Other languages for
orchestration, such as IBM’s WSFL, BPMI's BPML and Microsoft’s XLANG
What is BPEL?
Overview of commercially
available BPEL-engines, including those from CapeClear, Cordys, Fiorano,
IBM, Intalio, Microsoft, Oracle, PolarLake, SAP, Sonic, Software AG webMethods,
Sun, and Tibco
A new standard for
choreography: WSCDL
The Enterprise
Services Bus – a new generation of integration product
Message queuing as
transport layer
Differences between
EAI and ESB
Overview of ESB's,
including Axway, Bea Systems, CapeClear, Cordys, Fiorano, IBM, InterSystems,
Magic, Microsoft, Oracle, PolarLake, SAP, Software AG, Sonic, SpiritSoft,
and Sun
SOA Governance
Different areas of
SOA governance: interface and version management, service management, monitoring,
service level agreements, and security
Services management
for auditing, logging and billing of services
How do service management
tools operate?
Specifying and enforcing
service level agreements
Overview of SOA Governance
products
Different forms of
security: encryption, authentification, authorization and firewalls
SOA and Business
Intelligence
What exactly is Business
Activity Monitoring?
Static versus dynamic
BI
BPM and the relationship
with Key Performance Indicators
The data warehouse as
source for services
Predictive analysis via
the Enterprise Service Bus
Summary and conclusions
The future of services,
service oriented architectures and enterprise services busses
Overview of the web
services stack of standards
Day 2
Introduction:
From web services to service oriented architectures
The business advantages
of SOA
From monoliths via
integrated systems to decomposable information systems
Why is XML ideal for
exchanging data?
Overview of the standards
for web services, including SOAP, WSDL, UDDI, WS-Reliability, WSDM, WS-Security
and BPEL
The switch from classic
EAI to ESB
The development of
SOA with an ESB
Alternatives for an
ESB; application server, hub-and-spoke integration broker and message oriented
middleware
Overview of the market
of ESB's, including CapeClear, Cordys, Fiorano, IBM, InterSystems, SeeBeyond,
Sonic and SpiritSoft
Adapters from Actional,
DataDirect and iWay
Designing service
interfaces and transformations
Design rules for the
interfaces of individual services
A modelling technique
developed by Gregor Hohpe and David Chappell to design SOA's
From parameter to
document oriented interfaces
Aggregating small,
data oriented services
In which language
should aggregations be written: Java, C#, XSL or BPEL?
The influence of interfaces
on network traffic
XSL and XQuery as
languages to transform XML documents
Orchestration
of services with BPEL
Introduction to BPEL
- the standardised language for orchestration
Overview of BPEL engines
that are commercially available, including the ones from CapeClear, Fiorano,
IBM, Microsoft, OpenStorm, Oracle, PolarLake and SeeBeyond
Combining data from
different systems: with BPEL or in a service?
Should BPEL or the
service access the database?
Enriching of data
by means of lookup tables
The role of cleaning
tools when matching data
The difference between
orchestration and choreography
A new standard for
choreography - WS-CDL
The data warehouse
and the operational data store (ODS) as data source for services
Content based
routing
What exactly is the
job of a content based router?
Examples of content
based routers
Disconnecting of services
through routing
How to handle message
changes through routing
Transactions in
SOA
Existing standards
for transaction management, such as XA and DTP, are failing
New standards for
web service transactions: BTP, WS-Transaction and WS-CAFS
What is a compensating
transaction?
Overview of stand-alone
Business Transaction Manager's from Arjuna, Atomikos and Choreology
General guidelines
for SOA with regard to design
Guidelines for designing
a loosely coupled architecture
Which conditions should
legacy applications meet in order to be included in SOA?
Batch applications
and SOA's
Including the business
process in the documents
Matching comparable
data
The business rule
engine
What is a business
rule engine?
Where should business
rules be implemented?
Possibilities of BizTalk
Summary and conclusions
The future of the
service oriented architecture
The relationship between
SOA and other IT topics
General recommendations
for the introduction of a SOA
Rick
F. van der Lans is an independent consultant, author and lecturer
specialising in Internet, XML, data warehousing, and application integration.
He is Managing Director of R20/Consultancy
based in The Netherlands. Rick has advised many large companies worldwide
on defining their Internet, client/server, and data warehouse architectures.
Rick van der Lans
is an internationally acclaimed lecturer. For the last twelve years, he
has been presenting professionally, and has lectured in many of the European
countries, South America, the USA, and in Australia. He has presented
many keynote speeches at international events.
He is chairman of
the Database Systems Show (organised annually in The Netherlands since
1984), he is columnist for two major newspapers in the Benelux, called
Computable and DataNews. Additionally, he is advisor
for magazines such as Software Release Magazine and Database
Magazine.
His popular books,
including 'Introduction to SQL' and 'The SQL Guide to Oracle',
have been translated into many languages and have sold over 100,000 copies.
Recently, he has published a very successful book on presentation skills.
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DISCOUNTS
Attend more than one course in this series and you will be entitled to the following
discounts:
2nd course 10%
3rd Course 15%
4th Course 20%
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If 5 delegates from the same organisation register at the same time for the
same or various seminars, then the 5th delegate is free. We regret that this
offer cannot be used in conjunction with the Series Discount.
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