Service Oriented Architecture with Java: Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications [Paperback]

Binildas A. Christudas (Author), Malhar Barai (Author), Vincenzo Caselli (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1847193218 | ISBN-13: 978-1847193216 | Publication Date: June 26, 2008

This book shows how to use SOA and web services to build powerful applications in Java. It teaches the concepts and the implementation with best-practice real-world examples. You will learn to design a sound architecture for successful implementation of any business solution, the different types of architecture, and various tenets of SOA. The book explains the fundamentals and the advantages of using the Service Oriented Architecture in designing your business solution. This book is for Java programmers or architects who are interested in implementing SOA concepts in their applications. Readers should be familiar with Java Enterprise concepts.

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About the Author

Vincenzo Caselli graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1991 at the University of Bologna. Since 1996 he has been working as an independent consultant and Java trainer for several Italian software houses. He began working as a developer in Delphi and other visual IDEs with AS/400-based companies. Soon he shifted his focus to Java and began to propose Swing client/server multi-layered solutions to his customers. He also worked in the web development area with several frameworks (Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JSF, and GWT) in different fields (banking, manufacturing, healthcare, and e-learning). Recently he collaborated with IBM in projects based on Eclipse RCP and SOA. He is interested in every consultancy and training activity aimed to improve the productivity and quality of the software development process, possibly by using open-source products.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Packt Publishing (June 26, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1847193218
• ISBN-13: 978-1847193216
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,211,281 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Perhaps, your time won't be lost either, February 9, 2009

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Jacek Laskowski (Warszawa, Poland) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Service Oriented Architecture with Java: Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications (Paperback)

The book is about all and nothing. It's not very technical book and the subject of SOA in Java is barely scratched. There's everything you might find useful at your first day in your job as a SOA architect, but SOA Java programmers will likely find it hardly bearable. My interest in reading the book was to find a thorough explanation of what SOA means and how one can build SOA architecture with Java tools and projects. Well, there's a chapter about Java specification - JAX-WS - and projects like Apache Axis, Spring-WS and XFire (Apache CXF), but they're merely introduced and presented with very simple examples. Examples are meant to be simple, but not that much. The first chapter "The Mantra of SOA" is way too long and quite boring. The authors used lots of acronyms that might easily confuse like C/S. I certainly was. The second chapter "Web Services and SOA" makes a cut from the previous one. It's quite an interesting chapter with thought-provoking explanations, but it ends leaving a reader with "What! That's it?!". "The more you have, the more you want" I'd say and after the first chapter I really needed more. No code till the chapter 3. "Web Service Implementations". It was the very first time I could "taste" Spring-WS and XFire. Together with JAX-WS and Apache Axis, the samples of each were so simple that I barely noticed a change. Definitely not much to digest. JBI and OpenESB were mentioned very lightly as well. With other specifications - SDO and SCA - in the chapter 4. the book left a bad taste in my mouth. I could read a lot about different Java specifications for a successful SOA project, but enumerating them only would make no difference. That's not what I expected from a book "for JAVA programmers or architects who are interested in implementing SOA concepts to their applications" as the book's cover announces. I think the book aimed at Java programmers but eventually paved the way to SOA architectures for architects or business people. Too much "theory behind SOA" (quoting the book's cover again). The last 2 chapters are about imaginary projects to compare EAI and SOA approaches. They didn't draw my attention fully again. Although the book was not the one I had read if I'd have known what it was about before I must admit I have no regrets. A slightly over 150 pages are read very nicely and just because I found a few points about hub and spoke vs ESB architectures interesting (see pages 132-133) it was worth my time. Perhaps, yours won't be lost either.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars 35 dollars for nothing, August 22, 2009

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Gaurav Khanna (Sunnyvale, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Service Oriented Architecture with Java: Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications (Paperback)

This is the first book that is being given just one star. I had the misfortune of ordering and attempting to read this one. These are some of my gripes:
. If the aim is to learn about JAX-WS, JAXB, WSDL, SOAP etc in more detail than a reading it off a billboard then this book is not for you. This was akin to reading a ppt or off a billboard. Yes, there was some useful information but it was more like a pointer that I had to follow through with the aid of google.com to get comfortable with it. This book will give you a lot of jargon in 175 pages but that is about it. And it will also make your wallet lighter. I could have used the JAXB tutorial on the JAXB net site and that would have covered JAXB and I assure you that is awesome. JAX-WS details someplace else. Similarly for SOA, Mike Hansen's book would do the trick. Unfortunately, I would have to agree that the absence of writers such as E Rusty Harold, Monson-Haefel is being felt in the SOA and Java Web Service arena.
. Overall the quality of writing style is confusing and terminology and acronyms are scattered throughout and in some cases, not explained satisfactorily at all. For instance "3GL", "4GL", "M and A" etc. Repetitions galore in 175 pages - start to finish. It would appear as if the content in the book has not been proof-read and the authors have collaborated albeit still have managed to essentially hash the same stuff again and again. This is a book about SOA but does that imply that some SOA aspects have to be repeated again and again? For instance: "Why SOA" in the first chapter 1 and then the same hashup in the last chapter.

I think I would need to go off PACKT publishing for a while as well just for my sanity - this time that I spent on trying to read this book will never come back - all I can do is to write this review and make some positive contribution off that.

4.0 out of 5 stars Look beyond the malaprops, January 18, 2009

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Malcolm Gorman (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
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I like this book. Sure, there are some strange English expressions in here that can sometimes annoy but mostly amuse a native English speaker. But look beyond the malaprops. Binildas Christudas knows his stuff, and he knows it deeply. His writing is easy to understand. I would much rather he take the plunge (and his publisher Packt Publishing too) to give us the benefit of his considerable knowledge and experience, than to give up on writing a book with a few English idiosyncrasies.