Service Oriented Architecture

Catalog description

The principles of service oriented architecture; modeling, design and implementation of services; mapping business processes to services. SWENG 569 Service Oriented Architecture (3)Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a design principle for guiding the design, development, deployment, and sustaining of flexible and agile IT solutions. SOA has become increasingly viable because of the widespread adoption of Web services technology that makes creating SOA practical and cost effective. SOA essentially makes IT agile, interoperable, and more responsive. This course is structured to be appropriate for graduate students in software or systems engineering, or information science. Many of the topics covered in this course may be applied to a wide variety of research areas. Usually this course would cover the following topics: 1) Model, design, and implement SOA; 2) Create agile and reusable SOA; 3) Automate business processes by mapping to the architectural model; 4) Orchestrate services and execute processes with the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL); 5) Achieve interoperability within SOA using proven design patterns and/or best practices; and 6) Implement loosely coupled services using WSDL-first techniques. Students will be evaluated on their understanding of the course material by completing one examination (20%), weekly assignments (40%), and an individual project with presentation (40%).