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Next Generation Application Integration: From Simple Information to Web Services (Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series) (Paperback)

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"Linthicum provides an insightful overview of the services-integration issues that will enable you to capitalize on current and future integration technologies. He also dives deep into the key Web services technologies for implementing the next generation integration architecture. Highly recommended for those thinking of moving from traditional EAI to Web services." --Dr. Ravi Kalakota, CEO, E-Business Strategies Author of Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution For a majority of businesses, application integration is an outright failure. Most companies' computer systems are labyrinthine at best and self-destructive at worst. With the arrival of Web services, the new service-oriented middleware technology standard, and increasingly complex and challenging problem domains, it's time to take application integration to the next level. In Next Generation Application Integration distributed computing and application-integration expert David S. Linthicum describes the effect that this new generation of middleware will have on traditional application-integration efforts.Using key industry examples and case studies, Linthicum reveals the techniques and practices that are necessary to revolutionize data-sharing for any company--from sole-proprietorship to Fortune 500. In this book you'll find a thorough discussion of today's most advanced application-integration concepts, approaches, technologies, and solutions.Written with the technical manager and enterprise architect in mind, this book addresses essential application integration issues such as: *Strategies for dealing with complex problem domains *Forward-looking approaches to ensure long-term solutions that are right for your company *Techniques for implementation of new Web services middleware *Introductions to the appropriate technologies for next generation application integration *Scenarios for Web services integration *Support concepts outlined by case studies and real-world examples *Descriptions and analyses of the different types of Web service integration--standards, implementation, and enabling technology *Full analysis of Web services and integration, including the relationship between EAI and Web services *How to leverage both vertical and horizontal application-integration standards If you're responsible for managing or implementing application-integration middleware, Next Generation Application Integration will prove to be an indispensable resource. 0201844567B07142003

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"Linthicum provides an insightful overview of the services-integration issues that will enable you to capitalize on current and future integration technologies. He also dives deep into the key Web services technologies for implementing the next generation integration architecture. Highly recommended for those thinking of moving from traditional EAI to Web services."
--Dr. Ravi Kalakota, CEO, E-Business Strategies
Author of Services Blueprint: Roadmap for Execution

For a majority of businesses, application integration is an outright failure. Most companies' computer systems are labyrinthine at best and self-destructive at worst. With the arrival of Web services, the new service-oriented middleware technology standard, and increasingly complex and challenging problem domains, it's time to take application integration to the next level.

In Next Generation Application Integration distributed computing and application-integration expert David S. Linthicum describes the effect that this new generation of middleware will have on traditional application-integration efforts. Using key industry examples and case studies, Linthicum reveals the techniques and practices that are necessary to revolutionize data-sharing for any company--from sole-proprietorship to Fortune 500.

In this book you'll find a thorough discussion of today's most advanced application-integration concepts, approaches, technologies, and solutions. Written with the technical manager and enterprise architect in mind, this book addresses essential application integration issues such as:

Strategies for dealing with complex problem domains
Forward-looking approaches to ensure long-term solutions that are right for your company
Techniques for implementation of new Web services middleware
Introductions to the appropriate technologies for next generation application integration
Scenarios for Web services integration
Support concepts outlined by case studies and real-world examples
Descriptions and analyses of the different types of Web service integration--standards, implementation, and enabling technology
Full analysis of Web services and integration, including the relationship between EAI and Web services
How to leverage both vertical and horizontal application-integration standards

If you're responsible for managing or implementing application-integration middleware, Next Generation Application Integration will prove to be an indispensable resource.

0201844567B07142003

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Paperback: 512 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional (August 25, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0201844567
ISBN-13: 978-0201844566
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 1 inches
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3.0 out of 5 stars OK as a nontechnical overview, although with flaws, January 16, 2004

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An OK overview, not too much hype. However, the explanations are often so brief that the more complex standards (BPEL4WS being a particular case) would be impossible to understand if I hadn't read the official documents. The figures are plentiful and often awful. Many have little connection to the text that references them (13.2, 15.1, 15.2 being good examples). Entities in the figures are not explained in the text, and the text uses terms that do not show up in the figures. Also, anyone who includes a six-page listing of XML syntax without any kind of structuring, enhancement, or occasional word of explanation (e.g., listing 12.1) should be pilloried. Despite the fact that this has become some sort of sport, XML syntax was not designed to be read by humans in great quantities.

The style was a bit too chummy for my taste but perhaps that is what makes the books acceptable to nontechnical people? And the author should really find another favorite verb instead of "leverage". He employs it instead of "use", "implement", "incorporate", "include", and some more words, all of which would be either shorter or more clear (I thought I even spotted a couple of cases where "provide" seemed intended). By page 200 it gets to be a major irritation.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Text for Technology & Project Managers, February 24, 2004

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Linthicum writes a comprehensive text for technology managers. The 500-page book describes the world of EAI in detail with an emphasis on web services. It covers the benefits and limitations of web services, provides examples of where to use and not use them, and introduces standards with an emphasis on XML. The book encourages IT to make the much-needed shift from an information to a service-orientation. As such, a considerable part of the book dedicated to emerging EAI styles, such as SOA (Service Oriented Architecture), which requires IT to think in business terms and promises to speed development and decrease integration time when correctly implemented. Coders and those looking for technical information on standards should look elsewhere. The book contains many diagrams that are crude but effective. The writing style is unrefined and repetitive. This can be overlooked if you're willing to skim through them.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely disappointing, August 28, 2004

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I found this book to be very short on any kind of meat or details. I'm very tempted to ask for my money back. There is no insight here - the book could have been compiled from a series of press releases. I think the standard of the book is typified by the 'bibliography' which seems to list every single article the author has ever written, including in magazines like Computer Shopper a decade ago. How that is supposed to be any help to anybody I cannot see. Do yourself a favor and skip this one.

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3.0 out of 5 stars Good book needs better editor..
I've read this book making notes. I was new to Application Integration but now have a firm grip on the subject. Read more

Published 13 months ago by R. Glorie

1.0 out of 5 stars A very bad book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good overview of EAI
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Published on September 22, 2003 by dyson105

5.0 out of 5 stars Could have been better, but not much better
I've been following the author for a while, reading both his articles and books. I like his practical approach to hyped technology, such as Web services. Read more

Published on September 17, 2003

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the Money
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2.0 out of 5 stars To each his own
Like Linthicums previous books, this is surely not for someone who wants to get technical folks, its for the business people. Read more

Published on September 14, 2003

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