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
• participants will learn how applications communicate using HTTP and XML/JSON
• the evolution from the (classic) SOAP web services to REST APIs and microservices will be discussed
• documentation and maintenance of APIs will be discussed

• Introduction to Application Development and Distributed Computing
  • Application design
  • Distributed computing
• HTTP communication
  • HTTP(s) protocol
  • Request/Response
  • HTTP methods and headers
• Structuring documents
  • XML
  • JSON
  • YAML
• Service Oriented Architecture
  • SOA
  • Microservices
  • Testing services
• Classical Web services with SOAP and WSDL
  • WSDL
  • SOAP
  • Web services technology stack
  • WS-Security
• RESTful services and APIs
  • REST APIs: Architecture and naming best practices
  • Error Handling and Validation
  • RESTful security
• Describing APIs
  • WADL, RAML
  • OpenAPI specification
  • Swagger
• Governance

Classroom instruction, demonstrations and some small exercises.

Delivered as a live, interactive training: available in-person or online, or in a hybrid format. 
Training can be implemented in English, Dutch, or French.
If interested in organising this training internally, get in touch with us; we can even customise it to meet your specific needs.

Some knowledge about XML (see XML concepts) is advised.

Analysts, application developers, database administrators or project leaders wanting to learn the basic ideas of creating web services and APIs.