SOA Workshop Agenda

Day One

• Landscape of Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 Technologies
  • Connected systems – Challenges of today’s business world (WCF)
  • Workflows – Building Business Processes (WF)
  • Front-end – Service Oriented User Interfaces (WPF)
  • Security – Managing Identity across organizational boundaries (CardSpace)

• The four tenets of service oriented applications
  • Policies
  • Explicitness of boundaries
  • Autonomy
  • Contract and Schema Exchange
• The stack of a service oriented application
  • Edges and Agents
  • Hosting strategies
• Exceptions – Local and Distributed Error Management
• Transactions – Distributed Fault Management
• Security
  • Threat Modeling
  • Crossing trust boundaries
  • Federated Identity and Claims
• Workflow – Orchestrating Application-Logic
  • Sequential and Stateful Workflows
• Monitoring – Operations Management
• Presentation Layer – Intelligent User Interfaces
  • Succeeding in online, offline and mixed environments
• All together: A real Scenario from the field

Day Two

• Contract-based Development and Message-oriented Programming
  • Defining Contracts and working with Messages
• Using Transactions
  • Lightweight Transactions and Compensation
• Persisting workflows and data
• Building and Integrating Workflow Activities
• User Interface Experiences in a Service Oriented World
• Hosting UI Components, Workflows and Services
  • Windows Activation Services (WAS) and Internet Information Services (IIS)
  • NT-Services and Enterprise Services
• Security
  • Boundaries, Internals and Resources
  • Managing Federated Identities
• Diagnostics
• Software Factories – Today and Tomorrow

• Rolling out Applications
  • Build- and Setup Management (Windows Installer and MSBuild)
  • Managed Installation Framework
• Security
  • Configuring execution context with Policies
  • Securing OS Resources
  • Auditing
• Monitoring