Designing SOA Solutions Using IBM SOA Foundation  (WS008)

• Assess strategies for SOA adoption

• Describe SOA architecture and design principles

• Review Rational Unified Process (RUP) disciplines for SOA development

• Describe the service oriented modeling and architecture (SOMA) methodology for service development

• Describe the tooling for capturing business requirements and goals for SOA

• Describe the purpose of business modeling in SOA

• Review business process models in IBM WebSphere Business Modeler

• Follow the process guidance defined in SOMA for service identification, specification, and realization

• Review UML service models

• Describe SOA realization patterns

• Creating enterprise application architectures and integration architectures to support Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) or Business Process Management (BPM) efforts

• Architecting Web services and J2EE based solutions

• Applying Rational Unified Process (RUP) based software development methodologies and techniques

• Modeling software architectures using UML 2

• Using tools and runtime including Rational Software Architect, WebSphere Business Modeler, WebSphere Integration Developer, and WebSphere Process Server

• Portions of this course are also useful for process advisors, project managers, and business analysts.

• This course is not intended for infrastructure architects.

• Explain the business and technical value of adopting SOA

• Describe SOA and explain how it relates to contemporary software architectural styles

• Explain the principles and characteristics of services within SOA, and identify various service types

• Explain Information Services, and how and when to apply it

• Describe service-oriented integration (SOI) and explain how it differs from contemporary integration approaches

• Identify methodologies for service-oriented analysis and design

• Describe programming models and standards that support the realization of SOA and SOI

• Describe Web services, and explain how they support the realization of SOA solutions

• Describe IBM's SOA Foundation, and identify IBM offerings that support IBM's SOA life cycle

• Define SOA governance

• Explain the need for SOA governance

• Explain IBM's SOA governance offerings for establishing SOA governance within an organization

• Explain IBM's SOA scenarios and describe how these support adoption of SOA within an organization

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