An Introduction to Services-Oriented Architecture

Services-Oriented Architecture is an architectural pattern forcing a shift in how business applications integrate information and control in a distributed environment. The need to create information systems with high reliability, availability, and flexibility has driven the need to consider SOA. SOA decouples information and control, allowing participants to participating in a dynamically extensible distributed environment. SOA is rapidly becoming a mandatory component of many new DoD and business RFPs.

• The evolution of distributed and component-based software architectures

• What makes a software architecture “services-oriented”

• SOA architecture patterns

• Orchestration and choreography

• Web services and SOA

This course is intended for project managers or other professionals desiring an overview of the principles and technologies of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).