Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies (Paperback)

~ Michael Rosen (Author), Boris Lublinsky (Author), Kevin T. Smith (Author), Marc J. Balcer (Author)
Key Phrases: enterprise service bus, message broker, enterprise architect, Web Service, Case Study, Designing Service Interfaces (more...)

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Product Description

• Endorsed by all major vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP), SOA has quickly become the industry standard for building next-generation software; this practical guide shows readers how to achieve the many benefits of SOA
• Begins with a look at the architectural principles needed to create successful applications and then goes on to examine the process for designing services and SOA implementations
• Each stage of the design process has an accompanying chapter that walks readers through the details and provides helpful tips, techniques, and examples
• The author team of SOA practitioners also provides two unique, comprehensive, end-to-end case studies illustrating the architectural and design techniques presented in the book

From the Back Cover

You need more than theory to make SOA work.

You need this practical guide.

The challenge today's IT professionals face is not how to build a service. It's how to build a quality service, based on solid design principles and integrated into an architecture that enhances overall business processes. If you are a systems architect or designer, a business analyst, or an IT manager, this book gives you the architecture and design principles along with a methodology that empowers you to meet that challenge. Here are the tools you need to develop services that deliver the benefits of SOA.

• Understand how SOA provides improved flexibility, reduced costs, and competitive advantages

• Examine the overall enterprise context, architectural layers, domain-specific concepts, and essential service characteristics

• Learn how to align SOA with your business, identify services, and create solutions

• Explore business architecture and business process modeling

• See how to design service interfaces and implementations

• Create enterprise services that integrate existing applications and data

• Create enterprise solutions from existing services

• Apply security blueprints for determining and implementing appropriate safeguards

• Utilize successful techniques for flexible servicecomposition and semantic interoperability

• Prepare to effectively manage your projects, utilizing best practices and strategies for SOA management and governance

• Benefit from detailed case study examples

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Product Details

• Paperback: 696 pages
• Publisher: Wiley (June 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470223650
• ISBN-13: 978-0470223659
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.4 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #173,688 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars From Web Services to SOA, September 9, 2008

By	Michael Daconta - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I found this book valuable for providing a solid approach to designing service oriented architectures. It is important for people to understand that this book does not focus on implementing web services - there are plenty of other books that do that. This book focuses on the hard parts - how to design an architecture around the concept of services.
This book is also not a "cookbook" - it does not offer easy answers to these tough problems. Instead it walks you through the thought process so you can learn how to come up with the right answers yourself.
I am actively using this book to help my customers get started with SOA and to help them avoid common design pitfalls. My favorite chapter is Chapter 9: Using Services to Build Enterprise Solutions. The distinction between today's monolothic applications and tomorrow's composite applications requires a paradigm shift that the authors express well.
Finally, I especially liked the practical approach, practical steps and practical advice continually peppered throughout the entire book.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding - worth the read. , September 10, 2008

By	Steven P. Brown (Sarasota, FL) - See all my reviews

I have not seen a SOA book that is as practical as this one. Most of the people I work with understand why SOA is important, and we all get the vision by now. Many of the other popular SOA books ONLY focus on the vision and "what is SOA?" but not much else.

This book is different. It provides details. It focuses on architecture, design, and provides in-depth guidance for a wide variety of problem areas that we all encounter when we build SOA implementations. The book is a long one, but it is worth the read.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have if you are interested in SOA, August 21, 2008

By	D. Le Tien (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I really enjoyed reading this book which will probably appeal to both IT managers and Enterprise Architects. It has a nice balance between the strategy aspect of SOA and its technical side. The key concepts are well defined and clearly illustrated.

For those planning to introduce SOA in their organization - or those who just want to know more on the topic- this book is definitely a must have!