Introduction to BEA SOA Architecture

Overview

This course will provide each participant with a high-level comprehensive overview of the BEA WebLogic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and business integration components of the eCommerce environment. This briefing will focus on the concept and role of the SOA surroundings in the corporate environment, integration of Web services, architecture of the BEA Enterprise Service Bus and the message broker, routing of SOA messages, event driven processing, business process modeling using BPEL, BPEL4WS and BPMN, using WebLogic Workshop, AquaLogic Interaction tools, BPEL Process Manager for modeling, AquaLogic XML data transformations, logging and auditing, security concerns, BEA business integration architecture (Integration Server, MOM, adapters, etc) and the development tools that can be utilized.

All aspects of this class will incorporate the architecture offerings of BEA WebLogic to illustrate the implementation of these techniques.

Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of application development and design methodologies.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Designed for programmers, managers, project leaders, enterprise architects and other technical individuals that need to understand the BEA SOA model.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

Understand the BEA Service-Oriented Architecture

Depict the role of Web services and corresponding client interaction

Discuss the Publisher and Subscriber models

Illustrate the deployed components in the BEA WebLogic Integration environment and their distinctive roles.

Define the use of the BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Service Bus for managing SOA communications

Illustrate the role of different messaging brokers as the deployed AquaLogic ESB component

Discuss the logical and physical SOA components in the WebLogic corporate environment

Understand the business process modeling concept for depicting enterprise workflows

Depict the implementation of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), BPEL4WS and the modeling notation of BPMN

Define the integration of WebLogic Workshop and BPEL Process Manager for creating SOA components

Illustrate the role of adapters for accessing backend components

Course Duration

2 Days

Course outline

Introduction to SOA

SOA business challenges
Service Oriented Architecture
o UDDI Registry
o Service Requestor
o Web Service
B2C vs B2B
Defining XML
Defining SOAP
o Architecture
o Messages
Web Services Descriptive Language (WSDL)
o Definition
o Usage
Application Server
Enterprise Service Bus
Message Broker
Business process modeling

Business Integration

Need for application integration
How SOA addresses integration
Using integration and IDE tools
Integration Components
o Application Server
o Process Server
o Enterprise Service Bus
Role of adapters
Use of business objects
Topology
o Point-to-Point
o Hub-to-Bus

Web Services Development

IDE Tool support
Web Services wizard
o Deployment settings
o Java to XML mappings
o Binding Proxy generation
o XML to Java mappings
o SOAP Binding Mapping configuration
MQ enabled service
Generated files
o Client
o Proxy
Deployment

BEA Application Server and ALSB

Overview
Deployment issues
Business event synchronization
Applications integration
Role-based Access
Business Object optimization
JMS usage
Interaction with EIS systems

AquaLogic Service Bus

Overview of an ESB
Architecture pattern
Functions and abilities
Unify message oriented, event driven and service oriented processes
ESB and Message Broker integration
ESB vs. Message Broker
Delivery of information and services

Service Oriented Analysis & Design

Objectives
Introduction to SOAD
Applying SOAD Principles
o Abstraction
o Encapsulation
o Application
o Modularity
o Hierarchy
Granularity concepts
Coupling
SOAD Methodology Steps
o Stage 1-Process Modeling
o Stage 2-Service Identification
o Stage 3-Service Design & Implementation
o Stage 4-Process Implementation

Business Process Modeling

Defining BPM
Benefits of BPM
BPM Workflow analysis
Process re-engineering
• Integrating SOA into BPM
o Notation specification
o Behavior modeling
o Process activity sequencing
BPM lifecycle
Roles in BPM

SOA Governance

Challenges and Risks in SOA
Need for SOA Governance
SOA Governance Model
Roles
Address SOA Governance Challenges
o Establishing decision rights for your SOA environment
o Defining appropriate services
o Managing the lifecycle of service assets
o Measuring effectiveness
Realization of SOA benefits
Business risk mitigation

Legacy Adapters

J2EE JCA
Resource adapters roles
Mainframe adapters
o CICS
o IMS
o VSAM
Technology adapters
o JDBC
o COM
o EJB
o Exchange
o XML
o Mapping business objects
o Business object extraction via adapters