Distributed applications: APIs and web services

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is nowadays the main architectural style for business applications. It promotes loose coupling and interoperability, so that end-to-end business applications can easily be built from a set of business-aligned services. (SOAP) Web services and REST APIs are the most common implementations of these SOA ideas.

In this course participants get an overview of SOA principles: the concepts, the standards, the products and implementations. The evolution from the (classic) SOAP web services to REST APIs and microservices will be discussed.

Schedule

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31 Mar1Leuven 625 EUR (excl. VAT)
31 Mar1web based 625 EUR (excl. VAT)
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Intended for

Analysts, application developers, database administrators or project leaders wanting to situate SOA and web services.

Background

A general knowledge about internet and XML (see XML concepts) is required.

Main topics

  • Introduction to Application Development and Services
  • Application development and distributed computing
  • Evolutions in program design; exchanging messages
  • Webservices and SOA basics; overview of XML; standards and standard bodies
  • RESTful services and APIs basics
  • Classic Web services with SOAP and WSDL
  • SOAP, WSDL and UDDI
  • SOA security concerns
  • RESTful services and APIs
  • Alternative to SOAP/XML: REST and JSON; Microservices
  • Describing and discovering RESTful services / APIs
  • RESTful security
  • Implementing web services
  • Tools and Platforms; some Java examples
  • SOA in the Enterprise
  • Service Delivery Lifecycle; SOA design patterns
  • SOA governance and policies
  • Organizing the traffic with ESB
  • Orchestration and choreography
  • business processes; BPEL
  • WS-coordination

Training method

Classroom instruction and demonstrations.

Duration

1 day.

Course leader

Sandy Schillebeeckx.


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