Name of Subject  : SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECHURE (7 CS 6.1)

Unit

Contents

SOA Fundamentals: Defining SOA, Business Value of SOA, Evolution of SOA, SOA characteristics, concept of a

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service in SOA, misperceptions about SOA, Basic SOA architecture, infrastructure services, Enterprise Service

Bus (ESB), SOA Enterprise Software models, IBM On Demand operating environment.

Web services Technologies: XML technologies – XML,

DTD

,

XSD

,

XSLT

, XQuery, XPath Web services

technologies - Web services and SOA, WSDL, SOAP, UDDI WS Standards (WS-*)

- Web services and Service-

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oriented enterprise (SOE), WS-Coordination and WS-Transaction, Business Process Execution Language for Web

Services (BPEL4WS), WS-Security and the Web services security specifications, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-

Policy, WS-Attachments.

SOA Planning and Analysis: Stages of the SOA lifecycle, SOA Delivery Strategies, service-oriented analysis,

Capture and assess business and IT issues and drivers, determining non-functional requirements (e.g., technical

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constraints, business constraints, runtime qualities, non-runtime qualities), business centric SOA and its benefits,

Service modeling, Basic modeling building blocks, service models for legacy application integration and enterprise

integration, Enterprise solution assets(ESA) .

SOA Design and implementation: service-oriented design process,  design activities, determine services and tasks

based on business process model, choosing appropriate standards, articulate architecture, mapping business

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processes to technology, designing service integration environment (e.g., ESB, registry), Tools available for

appropriate designing, implementing SOA, security implementation, implementation of integration patterns,

services enablement, quality assurance.

Managing SOA Environment: Distributing service management and monitoring concepts, operational management

challenges, Service-level agreement considerations, SOA governance (SLA, roles and responsibilities, policies,

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critical success factors, and metrics), QoS compliance in SOA governance, role of ESB in SOA governance,