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Introduction

• The stakes of companies and the MDA approach of OMG.
• Multi-tiers architecture, business components: interoperability limits of classical middleware.
• Web services and SI interoperability.
• From components to services oriented architectures (SOA): Limits of the SI's management by projects, introduction to ser

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The concepts of SOA

• Conceptual model of a SOA.
• Business service concepts: Service exposition, loose-coupling, synchronous vs asynchronous model, service provider and c
• Business components: Exploitation unit, contract implementation, components dependency and orchestration.

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Introduction to the methodological approach

• The different approaches and Meta models: the Zachman framework, the methodological axes of the RUP, the PRAXEME approac
• Life cycle of a SOA project: strategically vision and organisational macro process, organisational process, technical im

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Semantic model of the domain

• Analyse of the business domain.
• Modeling of the reference objects and their life cycle, model structuring and relationship with urban planning.

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Business process and SI use cases

• Introduction to the pragmatic model.
• Business process analyse: use of activity diagrams, relation with the semantic model, pragmatic classes.
• The SI's use cases.
• The geographic model.

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Definition of the logical architecture

• Derivation of the semantic and pragmatic models to the logical architecture: management of navigation, 1..n, n..m relati
• Specification of the logical engines and the logical services: use of the MDA approach, grouping in logical workshop and
• Logical services definition: pre-condition, post-condition, exception or signals, input and output messages, definition
• Using contracts, QoS specification, metrics of Quality.
• Integration of existing applications.

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Technical architecture definition

• Implementation of the logical model with components: components of the layers of a SOA, process components, service faça
• Versions management, interactions mode and input/output messages, transactions management and compensation service.
• Description of services with WSDL, SOAP invocation: building interoperable XML schemas, service web design patterns.
• Service web infrastructure (WS-*), management of security, transaction, reliability, use of UDDI repository.
• Service web orchestration and integration of business process: presentation of the BPEL, BPMN standards: creation of vis
• Composite application management: introduction to the Service Component Architecture (SCA) standard.
• The Enterprise Service Bus (ESB): concepts of ESB, introduction to the JBI.

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Market actors and products

• Typology of the existing products and selection criteria.
• The SOA products of the main actors.
• Open Source products.