1. Instuctor Background Instructor: Michael J. McCarthy Associate Teaching Professor of Information Systems at Carnegie Mellon University from 1999 until present Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Computer Science Department of the University of Pittsburgh from 1990 until 1999 Software Consulting Services at Vamco Machine and Tool, Benton Engineering and Dravo Automation Sciences Junior College Assistant Professor of Information Systems from 1983 until 1990 Master of Science of Information Science, University of Pittsburgh, 1982 Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy, 1980

2. Course Background at CMU 95-843 Service Oriented Architecture was designed and developed by Michael J. McCarthy for the Master of Information Systems and Management program and was first offered during the Fall of 2006. The course grew out of his interest in distributed systems, internet technologies and XML languages. It has been taught during every spring and fall term since its inception. It regularly receives good to excellent course evaluations. It is a blend of architecture and technologies and is suitable for students interested in business processes as well for those interested in the implementation of those processes.

3. Course Plan Day 1 Morning Distributed Systems Architectural Models and styles of application integration Afternoon Activities: using sockets, Java RMI and Java servlets An introduction to Petri nets Activity: Build a Petri to model a business process

4. Course Plan Day 2 Morning SOA and Technical Foundations Activity: Performing an XSLT transformation Afternoon Building WS-* services and REST style services Activity: Using WS-* and REST

5. Course Plan Day 3 Morning A reference architecture from IBM for CMU’s SOA initiative Overview of Enterprise Service Bus Technologies Demonstration of Oracle’s SOA Suite Afternoon Enterprise Integration Patterns and Business Process Patterns BPEL and BPMN Activity: Using BPMN to model a business process

6. Course Plan Day 4 Morning Legacy system integration and SMART (The Service Migration and Reuse Technique from CMU’s Software Engineering Institute) Afternoon Governance Discussion or presentations

7. Course Plan Day 5 Morning Security related concepts and standards Afternoon SOA and cloud computing Programming Activity using the cloud