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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, emphasis on testing
If there is one lesson from this excellent book, it is to test, test, and test again. That is the author`s solution to sucessful SOA deployments, and his point probably applies to all application development.
Published on May 2, 2007 by PJ Murray

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1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money - this book is very poorly written.
I have never read a technical book which is so poorly written. The author would be well-served by taking an English Grammar course. The Publisher should fire the editor. Mr. Cohen's expertise notwithstanding, this book is frought with run-on sentences, choppy sentences, and a distracting overuse of 'For instance'. The manuscript for this book would have received an...
Published on November 12, 2007 by James Giddings Jr.


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1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book, emphasis on testing, May 2, 2007
This review is from: Fast SOA: The way to use native XML technology to achieve Service Oriented Architecture governance, scalability, and performance (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (Paperback)
If there is one lesson from this excellent book, it is to test, test, and test again. That is the author`s solution to sucessful SOA deployments, and his point probably applies to all application development.
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0 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money - this book is very poorly written., November 12, 2007
This review is from: Fast SOA: The way to use native XML technology to achieve Service Oriented Architecture governance, scalability, and performance (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (Paperback)
I have never read a technical book which is so poorly written. The author would be well-served by taking an English Grammar course. The Publisher should fire the editor. Mr. Cohen's expertise notwithstanding, this book is frought with run-on sentences, choppy sentences, and a distracting overuse of 'For instance'. The manuscript for this book would have received an 'F' in a collegiate freshman english course. It is just plain difficult to read, as the phrasing is really bad.
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