The Definitive Guide to SOA: BEA AquaLogic Service Bus [Hardcover]

David Schorow (Author), Jeff Davies (Author), Ashish Krishna (Author)

Book Description

Series: Definitive Guide | Publication Date: May 8, 2007

The Definitive Guide to SOA: BEA AquaLogic Service Bus targets professional software developers and architects who know enterprise development, but are new to enterprise service buses (ESBs) and service–oriented architecture (SOA) development. This is the first book to cover a practical approach to SOA using the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool. And it's straight from the “source”—BEA Systems AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies.

This book provides hands–on information to developing SOA–driven applications with ESBs as central components. It also gives strategic guidance on SOA planning, web service life–cycle management, administration of an ESB, and security considerations. Davies is careful to cut through theory and get straight to demonstrating successful use of the product where SOA really counts.

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About the Author

David Schorow has over 20 years of experience working on enterprise software. David is the chief architect for BEA AquaLogic Service Bus and has guided its development and evolution from the first release through subsequent releases. Prior to joining BEA Systems, David was the chief Java architect at the NonStop division of Hewlett Packard, overseeing the development of a wide variety of Java projects, including the NonStop Java JVM, NonStop SQL JDBC drivers, the port of WebLogic Server to the NonStop platform, and other demanding Java products. David has extensive experience in high-performance transaction processing systems, the application environments used in demanding industries such as stock exchanges, airlines, healthcare, and banking.

Jeff Davies, principal architect at BEA Systems AquaLogic, has 20 years of experience in the software field. Jeff has extensive experience developing retail applications, such as Act! for Windows and Macintosh and a number of other commercially available applications, principally in the telecommunications and medical fields. His background also includes the development, design, and architecture of enterprise applications. Prior to joining BEA Systems, Jeff was the chief architect at Covad Communications, responsible for their service-oriented architecture and the acquisition and deployment of Covad's Enterprise Service Bus. Now at BEA, Jeff is focused on the AquaLogic product line.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 408 pages
• Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (May 8, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590597974
• ISBN-13: 978-1590597972
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,623,727 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book, September 8, 2007

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Magnus Lassi - See all my reviews
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What I like the most about this book is that the book explains more about HOW to use ALSB to create and manage web services than just how to use ALSB which you can learn by reading the documentation.

I had played around with ALSB a few weeks before getting this book but had difficulty understanding some of the concepts and best practices. This book does a great job of explaining both the high-level concepts such as how to map your web services to your internal services/applications and low-level concepts like when to use a pipeline pair instead of a route. It also explains best practices for some issues which I have not been able to find anywhere else.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Book, June 7, 2007

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Sudhansu Pati - See all my reviews
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I have read other SOA books. The Definitive Guide to SOA was a pleasant read. It was well worth for the price of the book. The book not only explains the concepts of SOA, but also shows how to practice SOA using BEA AquaLogic Service Bus. I have been using AquaLogic Service Bus for a while and have some familiarity. I found some new SOA techniques from this book that I was unaware of and are not available in the product documentation.

Folks who are evaluating an ESB or using ALSB, should get a lot of value out of the book. Even for the folks who are new to SOA and want to learn the SOA concepts, this book is very useful. The best part is that you can download a copy of AquaLogic Service Bus from BEA's website and practice SOA applications as you read the chapters.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Explore SOA with AquaLogic Service Bus, July 7, 2007

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Sazi Temel (NJ, USA) - See all my reviews
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An ESB is in the core of most enterprise SOA implementations and AquaLogic Service Bus (ALSB) is one of the leading ESB. This book covers all the features expected from a moderen ESB using realistic use cases and samples that run on ALSB. Once you downloaded the samples you will have a library of solutions that may be applied to your own projects or may be used to explore ALSB features. In addition the book covers the service design, specially the design of composite and orchestrated services deployed on the bus. Although the book is written particularly for ALSB, the topics covered in it will give you very good idea on any modern ESB. I found this book very useful for my projects; applied many of the solutions included in this book. I recommend it for new beginners as well as experienced service developers, SOA architects, and managers overseeing SOA projects.