M6 Petals Master

Overview

SOA governance is one major part of SOA founding principles: it emphasizes services reuse to avoid useless developments, thus sparing time and money while controlling infrastructure complexity.

Main topics

This training provides extended practice of SOA governance through textbook and client case studies, to provide attendees with a complete understanding and know-how: understanding tools features and settings, searching for a service, reuse a service, rate and share services.

Main attendees

This module is intended for Architects and Projects managers in the first hand, as they are the first concerned with SOA governance. They will gain necessary skills to supervise and reuse services deployed in their SOA infrastructure with Petals Master.

Objectives

Synthesize the major stakes related to Service Oriented Architecture
Understand concepts and added value of services governance
Handle Petals Master in order to initiate a governance framework project

With this course, Architects and developers have a complete overview of JBI concepts and the techniques for implementing a services infrastructure based on Petals

Outline

Day 1: Introduction & Concepts

Introduction and stakes of SOA
- What is SOA? What it isn’t?
- What is a Service?
- Architecture patterns and SOA standards
SOA Governance
- Stakes of SOA Governance
- Service Lifecycle
- Service contract (SLA) and quality (Policy)
- Service Monitoring
- Benefits

Day 2: SOA Governance with Petals Master

Introduction of Petals Master
- Main features
- Standards support
- Architecture
- Labs: Installation and Configuration
SOA Governance tools overview
- Standards: UDDI and ebXML
- Main tools categories
- Petals Master Positioning
Labs: Share services (Publish)
- Import services from service descriptions
- Import services from execution environment (Petals ESB)
Labs: Reuse services (Find)
- Keyword based search
- Execution environment browser
- UDDI based search from Eclipse IDE
Labs: Evaluate services (Document, Enrich)
- Service related documents (Specification, test reports…)
- Community aspects (ratings, tags and comments)

General informations

Duration: 2 days

Teaching method: 60% Theory, 40% Labs

Attendees: Architects, Project managers, Developers

Prerequisites: Java/J2EE experienced developers

Services

References

The Social Security Central Agency (L'ACOSS) is France's chief agency for collecting social security payments. ACOSS uses Petals ESB as the heart for its infrastructure, to expose data and services to external partners.

Akerys, leader of french real estate rental, chose Petals ESB as a base for its information system.

Almerys, software editor for professionals and health insurance, chooses Petals ESB to integrate SOA capabilities in the next major version of its flaship product.

Cegedim activ, french leader of medical CRM market, uses Petals as a medium for its applications.

The Conseil général de la Gironde chooses Petals for its citizen portal.

DGA and Magellium choose Petals ESB to connect graphics processing chains.

The "Direction Générale de la Modernisation de l'Etat" chooses Petals ESB as core infrastrcuture software for managing data exchange on the "Monservicepublic.fr" webportal.