BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining ... management and web services orchestration [Paperback]

Jeremy Bolie (Author), Michael Cardella (Author), Stany Blanvalet (Author), Matjaz Juric (Author), Sean Carey (Author), Praveen Chandran (Author), Yves Coene (Author), Kevin Geminiuc (Author), Markus Zirn (Editor), Harish Gaur (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 23, 2006

This book is not just another generic set of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) best practices with only general recommendations and advice: instead it's a unique cookbook that shows you how SOA applications are built using best practices that are proven in 10 real-world scenarios. The book consists of three sections. The first two sections will inspire you. They showcase real-life projects on BPEL-based integration and development of composite applications. You'll see that SOA is a reality today, learn what successful implementations are like, and how SOA can work for you right now. It will encourage you to take a plunge into the world of services and test-drive SOA yourself. If you are already in the middle of an SOA implementation, these sections will offer you fresh insight into your current approach, help you to deal with specific business challenges, and make sure what you do is in line with the best practice. The third section will equip you with BPEL techniques to build better SOA applications. These techniques represent the practical implementation of best practice, with code snippets ranging from development to administration of an SOA application. They are generic enough to be applied in any of your existing projects yet specific enough to enable you reap the full benefits from your SOA implementation.This book is aimed at architects and developers building applications in Service Oriented Architecture. The book presumes knowledge of BPEL, SOA, XML, web services, and multi-tier architectures.

Editorial Reviews

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The real-life experiences in this book are an excellent way to understand how SOA can work for you right now. -- J.R. Jesson, CTO, EDS Application Portfolio Development

This book offers a unique opportunity to learn from ten of the most advanced adopters of BPEL. -- Stephen D. Hendrick, Group Vice President, Application Development and Deployment Research, IDC

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Editors

Markus Zirn is a Senior Director of Product Management for Oracle Fusion Middleware. In this role he heads the Strategic Customer Program, where he works with Oracle's leading and most innovative middleware customers. He has been part of the Enterprise Software industry for more than 10 years, including roles as Vice President of Product Marketing and part of the founding team of QUIQ and as a Management Consultant of Booz Allen & Hamilton's Silicon Valley High Tech Practice. Markus' passion for Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and BPEL stems both from practical experience designing and optimizing business processes as part of process reengineering projects and from being part of the advent of "software as a service" before web services became mainstream. He holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe and is an alumnus of the Tripartite program, a joint European degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, the University of Southampton, UK, and ESIEE, France.

Harish Gaur has more than 10 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. He is currently the Group Product Manager for Fusion Middleware at Oracle. In his current role, he works closely with strategic customers implementing Service-Oriented Architecture using Oracle SOA technology. Harish's expertise in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) draws from an extensive hands-on experience with Business Process Management (BPM) and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI).

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Product Details

• Paperback: 188 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (July 23, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1904811337
• ISBN-13: 978-1904811336
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,102,195 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Expensive magazine, September 25, 2006

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ajorani (Danbury, CT United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining ... management and web services orchestration (Paperback)

Oracle-centric. Very short book, could be a magazine. Take out the screenshots and code snippets and it's a $45 pamphlet. Most of the recipes are cooked using Oracle products. The descriptions and back cover are misleading. Not recommended if you are interested in other solution providers.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Practices for SOA Integration on the Money, November 16, 2006

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Richard A. Colton "Rich Colton" (Denver, CO USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining ... management and web services orchestration (Paperback)

The BPEL Cookbook is an excellent practical guide to real-world SOA integration issues. It is not a "Learn BPEL" book, but rather the next step once you learn how to develop in BPEL. It addresses various types of issues that one needs to consider when developing BPEL processes. Chapter 3, "Building the Service Value Chain", addresses the core of building a SOA architecture that the business process must be standardized and documented. While a couple of chapters are Oracle BPEL centric, the rest of the chapters address generic issues of any BPEL implementation. In particular, Reliable Messaging, Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF), building dynamic BPEL processes, and centralizing logging and error handling. For those using Oracle BPEL, chapter 5 shows how to use the Worklist API to build a rich Internet application. And chapter 2 shows how to integrate PeopleSoft CRM with Oracle eBusiness Suite.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful for the Architects who are architecting SOA solution using Oracle BPEL Process Manager, September 27, 2006

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Saumitra Chattopadhyay (Fremont, CA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development: Ten practical real-world case studies combining ... management and web services orchestration (Paperback)

Many of our clients are migrating from traditional Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) to the standard based SOA. This book has ten real-world case studies, which helped me to architect the solutions. Sometimes I use this book as best practices of Oracle BPEL-PM .
I like this book because the approach is more real-life examples than theory. Developers with minimum experience in SOA world will be able to leverage this emerging technology very easily.
Even though this book is useful for anybody to understand SOA and BPEL, this is extra useful for the people who are using Oracle Fusion Middleware (BPEL Process Manager).