Understanding SOA with Web Services (Paperback)

~ (Author), Greg Lomow (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From the Back Cover

Praise for Understanding SOA with Web Services

"This book does the best job of describing not only "where we are" in the timeline of enterprise integration efforts, but also providing strategic guidance for where we need to be. The authors have worked diligently to break down the integration problem into functional areas, and send you down the path of strategic integration utilizing XML Web Services and Service-Oriented Architecture as the vehicle of choice. You will love this book!"

—Daniel Edgar, Architect, Portland General Electric

"E-Government needs a comprehensive guide to SOA with Web Services standards and best practices for implementation to get from the current "as is" to the future "to be" architecture. This book meets that need superbly."

—Brand Niemann, Ph.D., Co-Chair, Semantic (Web Services) Interoperability Community of Practice, U.S. Federal CIO Council.

"There are many books on SOA available today, but Understanding SOA with Web Services stands out from the pack because of its thorough, outstanding coverage of transactions, reliability, and process. Where most SOA books focus on integration and architecture basics, Lomow and Newcomer fearlessly dive into these more advanced, yet critical, topics, and provide a depth of treatment unavailable anywhere else."

—Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst, ZapThink LLC

"This book provides a wealth of content on Web Services and SOA not found elsewhere. Although the book is technical in nature, it is surprisingly easy to read and digest. Managers who would like to keep up with the most effective technical strategies will find this book required reading."

—Hari Mailvaganam, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

"I have been teaching companies and lecturing on SOA and XML Web Services for years and sort of felt at home with these technologies. I didn't think anyone else could teach me anything more significant about either of them. This book surprised me. If a person teaching SOA and Web Services can learn something from this book, you can too. This book is a must-read for all architects, senior developers, and concerned CTOs."

—Sayed Y. Hashimi, SOA Consultant

"Newcomer and Lomow are no doubt the industry luminaries on the topics of Web Services, Service-Oriented Architecture, and integration. This book is sure to be a must-have for developers and architects looking to take advantage of the coming wave of standards-based, loosely coupled integration."

—Ronald Schmelzer, Senior Analyst, ZapThink, LLC
Author of XML and Web Services Unleashed (Sams, 2002)

"The author makes it quite clear: SOA is an organizational principle and Web Service technology is a means to realize enterprise solutions according to this. SOA is the federative concept of nature and efficient societies. The book is an excellent starting-point to discover the new world of an IT-infrastructure adjusted to efficient business strategies and processes in a global value-add network."

—Johann Wagner, Senior Architect, Siemens Business Services Author of Föderative Unternehmensprozesse

"Finally, here's a third-generation Web services book that delivers pragmatic solutions using SOAs. Newcomer and Lomow draw from their years of real-world experience ranging from developing Web services standards to hands-on applications. Listen to them."

—DOUG KAYE, author of Loosely Coupled: The Missing Pieces of Web Services
Host and producer, IT Conversations (www.itconversations.com)

The definitive guide to using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Web services technologies to simplify IT infrastructure and improve business agility. Renowned experts Eric Newcomer and Greg Lomow offer practical strategies and proven best practices for every facet of SOA planning and implementation. Newcomer and Lomow pick up where Newcomer's widely read Understanding Web Services left off, showing how to fully leverage today's latest Web services standards for metadata management, security, reliable messaging, transactions, and orchestration.

Along the way, they present specific approaches and solutions for a wide range of enterprise integration and development challenges, including the largest and most complex.

Coverage includes

• Why SOA has emerged as the dominant approach to enterprise integration

• How and why Web services provide the ideal foundation for SOA

• Underlying concepts shared by all SOAs: governance, service contracts, Web services platforms, service-oriented development, and more

• Implementing service-level communications, discovery, security, data handling, transaction management, and system management

• Using SOA to deliver application interoperability, multichannel client access, and business process management

• Practical tutorials on WS-Security, WS-Reliable Messaging, WS-AtomicTransactions, WS-Composite Application Framework, WS-Addressing, WS-Policy, and WS-BPEL

Whether you're an architect, developer, or IT manager, Understanding SOA with Web Services will help you get SOA right—and achieve both the business and technical goals you've set for it.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

About the Author

About the Authors

In the role of Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Eric Newcomer is responsible for IONA's technology roadmap and direction as relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design. Eric joined IONA in November 1999 as transaction architect, and most recently served as Vice President of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products. Eric has 26 years experience in the computer industry, including more than 15 years at Digital Equipment Corporation/Compaq Computer, where he held a variety of technical and management positions before receiving a corporate-level technical appointment. Eric received his BA in American Studies from Antioch College, with a minor in computer science.

In addition to Understanding Web Services, published in 2002, Eric is co-author of Principles of Transaction Processing, published in 1997 by Morgan Kaufman, and co-author of a chapter called "The Keys to the Highway" in The Future of Software, published in 1995 by MIT Press. Eric is also the author of numerous white papers and articles, co-author and editor of the Structured Transaction Definition Language specification published by X/Open (now The Open Group) in 1994, former member of the Transaction Internet Protocol working group at IETF, former member of the X/Open Distributed Transaction Processing committee that created the XA specification, former chair of the OTS RTF at OMG, and chair of the team that developed the XML Valuetype specification at OMG to map XML to CORBA. He was a charter member of the XML Protocols Working Group at W3C, where he served as an editor of the requirements document that led to SOAP 1.2. He served for nearly two years as an editor of the W3C Web Services Architecture Specification, and most recently served as co-chair and editor of the Web Services Composite Application Framework set of specifications at OASIS.

Greg Lomow, Ph.D., is a senior manager and consultant for BearingPoint, Inc. Greg has 12 years of experience as a consultant and enterprise architect working in the financial services, telecom, and federal government sectors designing business applications using service-oriented architecture, developing simulation applications using distributed object technology, and training developers in object-oriented design and programming techniques. He also worked for eight years as a product manager at Jade Simulations, Level 8 Systems, and IONA Technologies responsible for integration, web services, and middleware products. Greg co-authored C++ Frequently Asked Questions published by Addison-Wesley in October 1999 (1st ed.) and again in January 1999 (2nd ed.). He completed his Ph.D. in computer science at the University of Calgary, Canada, in 1988. Greg is an active member of the Web Services Interoperability (WS-I) Organization.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

See all Editorial Reviews

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (December 24, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0321180860
• ISBN-13: 978-0321180865
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.8 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #402,737 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good selection for understanding the bigger picture..., March 16, 2005

By	Thomas Duff "Duffbert" (Portland, OR United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

While it's pretty easy to understand the basic concept of web services, it's a bit harder to put it into the full Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) framework. Eric Newcomer and Greg Lomow do a good job of sorting things out in the book Understanding SOA with Web Services (Addison-Wesley).

Chapter List: Introduction to SOA with Web Services; Overview of Service-Oriented Architecture; SOA and Web Services; SOA and Web Services for Integration; SOA and Multi-Channel Access; SOA and Business Process Management; Metadata Management; Web Services Security; Advanced Messaging; Transaction Processing; Bibliography; Index

Now, what this book *isn't* is a detailed reference manual on web services and how they work. There are plenty of other reference sources for that. This book is more along the lines of a very good architectural treatment of web services, something that would be appropriate for a technology architect in an organization. The material shows not only what web services are, but how to build an environment of applications that are based on calling those services to get things done. If you follow their advice closely, you'll find that application development can start to resemble a Lego-type structure. You build applications by stringing together existing business processes that are encapsulated as web services. They also cover many of the up and coming web services standards that are slowly winding their way through committee, such as WS-Trust, WS-Federation, and a multitude of other similarly named standards. By the time you get done, you should have a pretty thorough understanding of the strong and weak points of web services, and how best to implement them in your environment.

If web services are important to your organization (and they probably should be), this is a good book to read...

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Another architectural work on SOA, January 23, 2005

By	Jack D. Herrington "engineer and author" (Silicon Valley, CA) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

There are a variety of architectural works out on SOA. This is another architectural book in this crowded field. There is reasonably in-depth coverage of the role of each of the web services standards. Though I find the tone of this particular book a bit more accessible than the others. The author is plain spoken and pragmatic.

There is some code in the book, in C# and C++. Though this is certainly not the focus of the book. Which is a straightforward walkthrough from web service standard basics, through integration, security and into transactions. It's a fairly short book, with each chapter at around 30-40 pages and the whole book weighing in at 400 pages.

You will most likely have to buy other books and check other web resources to get in-depth coverage for your language of choice after taking the tour that is this book.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best book on SOA and Web Services, by far!, February 17, 2005

By	John Apps "JohnApps" (Rimsting, Germany) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is worth buying even if you stop reading it after the first few chapters. These provide not only technical advice but, even more useful, guides and templates for getting started with SOA: fine grained, coarse grained, consumer has to know details of the service he's calling, J2EE, .NET, LAMP, CORBA, whatever. All are covered at a level which makes sense in the concept of Service-oriented Architecture and design.

If you're into the nitty gritty of SOA and Web Services, then the book is also a must as it provides the reader with a wonderful insight into how, from the high level of SOA one gets down to the actual XML on the wire.

I have taken to "stealing" bits from the book --suitably attributed and with the permission of the authors, of course!-- as I have not found anything near as good and am unable to come up with something as complete and overarching myself.

My congratulations to the authors on an absolutely great book!