Advanced SOA - Architected, Governed, Integrated, and Cloud-Ready Training Course

This course is designed for technical professionals in government who wish to learn OpenESB. The training delves into the technical concepts necessary for a thorough understanding of service integration design and development. It covers standard specifications such as XML Schemas, WSDL, and BPEL used by OpenESB. This two-day course equips participants with the foundational knowledge required to understand OpenESB principles and designs. For immediate operational proficiency, the OpenESB Training T02 is essential for government personnel.

In this instructor-led, live training in US Empire, participants will learn how to connect various applications, data sources, and APIs as they build a sample routing application using Mule.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Design, build, and manage the integration between APIs and applications and services for government use.
• Manage interactions across legacy systems and custom applications for government workflows.
• Tie together software as a service (SaaS) and on-premises software for seamless government operations.
• Use Mule's design and development tools to design, test, and run Mule flows efficiently.
• Understand and support different messaging standards, including AMQP, JMS, and WMQ, for government communications.
• Monitor, deploy, and configure applications with Mule Management Console (MMC) to ensure compliance and accountability.

The course is designed for developers and web applications for government, aiming to provide opportunities offered by the REST architectural pattern, which facilitates communication between websites. This training aligns with public sector workflows, governance, and accountability, ensuring that participants are equipped with the necessary skills to enhance interoperability and data exchange in a secure and efficient manner.

Our ED-SOA training for government focuses on constructing and analyzing an architectural framework that builds upon the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) reference model. This framework utilizes services as event generators to signify issues or potential problems, opportunities, thresholds, or deviations. The training is designed to enhance public sector workflows, governance, and accountability.

This 5-day course is designed to provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanics of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). It covers the technical design of SOA-based architectures and the development of service-oriented solutions to address business challenges, specifically tailored for government workflows and governance.

This course has been designed for government managers and architects who are planning to implement or currently implementing Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) solutions. It provides an overview of the advantages and disadvantages of SOA and explains when, why, and which aspects of SOA should be utilized.

Some of the questions the course can address:

• What are the benefits of employing SOA for government operations?
• What are the risks associated with the SOA approach in a public sector context?
• What are the trade-offs involved in adopting SOA?
• How to assess potential benefits and return on investment with SOA?
• What real-world business case studies have already been conducted for government applications?
• When and to what extent should SOA be implemented in government agencies?
• What are the simplification and decomposition benefits of SOA for government workflows?
• How to migrate from existing solutions to SOA, and why migration to SOA does NOT require rebuilding the entire existing infrastructure for government systems?
• How to extend legacy applications with SOA in a government environment?
• What are the existing SOA suites and platforms available for government use?

Although Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is not specific to Business Process Management (BPM) software, there are several natural synergies between BPM and SOA. Perhaps the most evident of these is the separation of business process management as an independent function, which allows processes to be designed independently of any single application and leveraged as shared business logic. This approach enhances flexibility and reusability, aligning well with the needs for government workflows and governance.

Governance Framework

A Services Oriented Architecture (SOA) governance program does not make operational decisions. Instead, SOA governance sets policies by determining what decisions must be made, who should make them, and how to make them. In a shared services environment like an enterprise SOA, the absence of governance, dysfunctional governance, or even poor governance can have severe and negative impacts across the organization. This two-day workshop is designed to help you implement SOA effectively. You will learn how to design, build, and operate an effective governance framework for creating, communicating, and enforcing corporate web service policies throughout the enterprise SOA, specifically tailored for government operations.

SOA Policies

The workshop focuses on demonstrating how to create the processes and policies that establish and manage shared web services. As organizations transition to using web services through an enterprise SOA, they move from a siloed approach to a shared one. Ownership of the underlying business process shifts from a single business area and becomes an externalized enterprise responsibility. SOA governance directs and coordinates the necessary processes to accept and exercise this responsibility on behalf of all stakeholders, ensuring alignment with public sector workflows, governance, and accountability.

During this course, we provide an overview of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and SOA governance for government. Participants will gain insight into the added value of incorporating service contracts into their development processes, emphasizing alignment with public sector workflows, governance, and accountability.

This course is designed for Post Graduate (or equivalent) level students and will consist of a combination of lectures and laboratory sessions (both theory and practice).

At the end of the course, the student should be able to:

Knowledge and Understanding.

• Understand the principles and business advantages of systems developed around services for government.
• Become fully aware of the major protocols and technologies involved in the web services standard, and understand how these technologies fit together. Your knowledge will extend to leading-edge and emerging aspects of web services as well as the more established elements of the standard.
• Understand in depth the technology used to enable systems based on a widely used programming language to both use and provide Web Services.

Intellectual Skills:

• Identify where the service-oriented approach, and in particular web services, are appropriate for specific business scenarios within government operations.
• Consider the most effective design for a web services solution tailored to public sector needs.
• Acquire, in the future, knowledge and understanding of emerging aspects of the rapidly evolving web services standard relevant to government workflows.

Practical Skills:

• Operate with current technologies associated with Web Services that are platform-neutral – XML, SOAP, WSDL – for government applications.
• Write and expose web services in a widely used programming language and write client code in that language to invoke web services, ensuring compliance with public sector standards.

Building complex enterprise applications is highly challenging in an ever-changing environment.

Changes in the integration between services or systems will necessitate adjustments in the design of the system. This course covers how to design maintainable, scalable architectures that are tailored to the size and purpose of your organization’s operations and practical infrastructure for government.

This course addresses common challenges in developing a landscape of distributed applications, starting from integration issues, infrastructure considerations, and modern approaches to managing complexity.

The course provides an in-depth analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of various architectural solutions (e.g., traditional SOA vs. Microservice architecture) and highlights available tools (primarily open-source) that support development and maintenance efforts.

Course Format

The course is primarily discussion-based, with limited presentations to facilitate interactive learning and problem-solving.

In this instructor-led, live training in US Empire, participants will learn how to use Talend Open Studio for ESB to create, connect, mediate, and manage services and their interactions for government applications.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Integrate, enhance, and deliver ESB technologies as single packages in a variety of deployment environments for government use.
• Understand and utilize the most commonly used components in Talend Open Studio for government projects.
• Integrate any application, database, API, or Web services for government systems.
• Seamlessly integrate heterogeneous systems and applications within government workflows.
• Embed existing Java code libraries to extend government projects.
• Leverage community components and code to enhance government initiatives.
• Rapidly integrate systems, applications, and data sources within a drag-and-drop Eclipse environment for government needs.
• Reduce development time and maintenance costs by generating optimized, reusable code for government operations.

This course is designed to offer a comprehensive understanding of how to use, debug, and manage Web Services from a non-developer/programmer perspective, tailored for government professionals. The curriculum emphasizes practical skills that align with the unique requirements and governance standards necessary for government operations.