Introduction to Web Services with CICS

Course Number:  689-JK
Recommended Duration:  2 or 3 days

Intended Audience
Experienced CICS programmers and designers needing to learn how to create and use Web Services.

Course Overview
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a standards-based architecture where business processes are represented by one-or-more independent services that may be orchestrated into new applications as needed.  Services are represented by one-or-more software components.  Today Web Services provide the backbone components of SOA for most organizations.  This course introduces the core concepts of SOA and Web Services.

Objectives
Participants will learn to work with CICS and COBOL to use existing Web Services and to create Web Services for others to use.  Class exercises will use WSDL (Web Services Description Language) and SOAP to process Web Services.

Prerequisites
Students must have .CICS and COBOL  experience  or must have completed CICS and COBOL training.  Students also require XML experience, or should have completed an XML Introduction course.

Topics

• Components of Service-Oriented Architecture

• Service providers, consumers, and registries

• Loose Coupling, Inter-operability, and Reusability

• Implementing a Service-Oriented Architecture with Web Services

• What is a Service Registry?

• What is an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?

• Introduction to Web Services

• Important Standards: XML, SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI

• SOAP messaging

• Web Service Description Language (WSDL)

• CICS Web Service client

• CICS Web Service provider

• Universal Description Discovery and Integration (UDDI)

• Publishing a Web Service

• Finding a Web Service

• Using a Web Service

• Deploying a Web Service