This course will provide each participant with a high-level comprehensive overview of the BEA WebLogic Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and business integration components of the eCommerce environment. This briefing will focus on the concept and role of the SOA surroundings in the corporate environment, integration of Web services, architecture of the BEA Enterprise Service Bus and the message broker, routing of SOA messages, event driven processing, business process modeling using BPEL, BPEL4WS and BPMN, using WebLogic Workshop, AquaLogic Interaction tools, BPEL Process Manager for modeling, AquaLogic XML data transformations, logging and auditing, security concerns, BEA business integration architecture (Integration Server, MOM, adapters, etc) and the development tools that can be utilized.

All aspects of this class will incorporate the architecture offerings of BEA WebLogic to illustrate the implementation of these techniques.

Prerequisites

Each student should have a basic understanding of application development and design methodologies.

Class Format

Lecture and Lab

Audience

Designed for programmers, managers, project leaders, enterprise architects and other technical individuals that need to understand the BEA SOA model.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, the student should be able to:

• Understand the BEA Service-Oriented Architecture
• Depict the role of Web services and corresponding client interaction
• Discuss the Publisher and Subscriber models
• Illustrate the deployed components in the BEA WebLogic Integration environment and their distinctive roles.
• Define the use of the BEA AquaLogic Enterprise Service Bus for managing SOA communications
• Illustrate the role of different messaging brokers as the deployed AquaLogic ESB component
• Discuss the logical and physical SOA components in the WebLogic corporate environment
• Understand the business process modeling concept for depicting enterprise workflows
• Depict the implementation of Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), BPEL4WS and the modeling notation of BPMN
• Define the integration of WebLogic Workshop and BPEL Process Manager for creating SOA components
• Illustrate the role of adapters for accessing backend components