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A good book on the details of Java and SOA, March 28, 2009
This review is from: Java Soa Cookbook (Paperback)
This book is intended for experienced Java developers and architects who need to know the details of SOA development with the Java programming language and associated technologies. It is not a very good big picture book on SOA. For that I recommend
Service Oriented Architecture with Java: Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications, which was published in 2008, so it is still current in its approach.
To get the most out of this book the author assumes specifically that you are familiar with Java SE 5 or 6, servlets, JSP Enterprise Edition containers such as Glassfish, Enterprise JavaBeans, as well as JDBC, JNDI, EARs and WARs, and XML. In short, the author assumes that you have been involved in enterprise development using the Java technologies and APIs mentioned. If you have used web services but not recently, this book does help you get your feet back in the water. It is those that are complete novices that will get truly lost.
Parts of the book address strategy, design, and patterns, but largely it is a book that stays at a low level. A really good book on SOA design patterns is
SOA Design Patterns (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl). The author also talks about SOA and Ruby, Python, and .NET. However, it is not necessary to have a background in these languages since Java is specifically the language and environment that the author addresses.
Currently, the table of contents is not included in the product description, so I include that next:
Part 1: SOA Fundamentals
Chapter 1. Introduction to SOA
Chapter 2. XML Schema and the SOA Data Model
Chapter 3. Working with XML and Java
Part 2: Web Services
Chapter 4. Getting Started
Chapter 5. Web Services with SAAJ
Chapter 6. Creating Web Service Applications with JAX-WS
Chapter 7. Providing SOAP-Based Web Services
Chapter 8. RESTful Web Services
Part 3: Business Processes
Chapter 9. Service Orchestrations with BPEL
Chapter 10. Advanced Orchestrations with BPEL
Chapter 11. SOA Governance
Part 4: Interoperability and Quality of Service
Chapter 12. Web Service Interoperability
Chapter 13. Quality of Service
Chapter 14. Enterprise Service Bus
I would say that between this book and the other two that I mentioned, you should have a pretty good starting point on SOA/Java reading material.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The BEST you find on this subject, September 16, 2009
This review is from: Java Soa Cookbook (Paperback)
I was really impressed how thorough this book is, it covered lots of materials. I was always looking for such a book that covers all sorts of topics in ONE SINGLE book, and this is the one. There are lots of books in the market about SOA, however, lots of them are pure talk, and they just fill pages to sell books and helps you very little in real life. This book is straight to the point; of course it does not give you everything, however, it is the best you will currently find in the market.
For the designers and architects, it gives you good introductions with examples showing how to apply SOA in real life. It touches on most subjects: such as Schema/Contract Designs, Governance, ESB, BMPL, and more.
From the programming prospective, this is a very rich book with lots of examples and discussions about the code. However, this book is written in a biased way to SUN's Glassfish & NetBeans, which I do not like. I hope in the next release he will normalize to eclipse and Tomcat. If you expect this book to cover AXIS2 or CXF, you are out of luck. This book assumes Java5+ and JAX-WS 2.1+ with lots of annotations.
I wish if there was sections about security in details, such as SAML, and integration with Spring Framework. I guess this will go in the next release years down the road.
I have just read this great book Again, I like add that one major shorting coming of this book that the examples do not exists online? Only snippet of code; not working example. I hope the author will do that soon because this is really a good book
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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awe-inspiring, February 23, 2010
This review is from: Java Soa Cookbook (Paperback)
The author's knowledge is unbelievable. I can't imagine how one person could know a subject so deeply.
The tough part of SOA is that there are so many ways to do it: the tip of the iceberg is rpc or document, literal or encoded, wrapped or bare. And the deeper you get, the more architectural decisions there are e.g., java first or contract first, or "in the middle." Hewitt gives you exactly the perspective you need to make these decisions.
He writes beautifully, too.
Great book.
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