SOA & web services concepts (EN/NL/FR)

In this 1 day ABIS course participants get an overview of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) principles: the concepts, the standards, the products and implementations. The evolution from the (classic) SOAP web services to REST APIs and microservices will be discussed.

Intended for analysts, application developers, database administrators or project leaders wanting to situate SOA and web services. A general knowledge about internet and XML is assumed for those attending.

Remark: Course description in English; Dutch and French versions are available on the ABIS website. Courses are planned in Dutch, English, and French. Consult the ABIS website for alternate course formats.

Main topics:

• Introduction to Application Development and Services
  • Application development and distributed computing
  • Evolutions in program design; exchanging messages
  • Webservices and SOA basics; overview of XML; standards and standard bodies
  • RESTful services and APIs basics
• Classic Web services with SOAP and WSDL
  • SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
  • SOA security concerns
• RESTful services and APIs
  • Alternative to SOAP/XML: REST and JSON; Microservices
  • Describing and discovering RESTful services / APIs
  • RESTful security
• Implementing web services
  • Tools and Platforms; some Java examples
• SOA in the Enterprise
  • Service Delivery Lifecycle; SOA design patterns
  • SOA governance and policies
  • Organizing the traffic with ESB
• Orchestration and choreography
  • business processes; BPEL
  • WS-coordination

Intended for/Audience: Analysts, application developers, database administrators or project leaders wanting to situate SOA and web services.

Background/Prerequisites: A general knowledge about internet and XML (see XML concepts) is required.

Training Method/Didactics: Classroom instruction and demonstrations.

Duration: 1 day.