This book is a advertised as a technical brief, so by its nature it does not purport to get too deep into enterprise application integration. What it does do, however, is give a non-technical manager or someone who is migrating their technical skills from, say, mainframes the ability to quickly discover the moving parts and associated issues of EAI. In that respect this book lives up to its title and does an excellent job.
The authors start with EAI business drivers, which sets the context for the business process owners who need to understand how the "EAI project" that IT is cooking up will affect their lives. For the more technical manager or individual who is making a horizontal career move, the types of integration will be of great interest. Then authors do a good job of clearly explaining approaches.
Basic building blocks is about as far as a business process owner will want to wade into this book. It gives a clear picture of the scope and complexity of an EAI solution without overwhelming details.
The chapter on messaging architectures can be easily followed by IT managers who are in their positions because of a basic understanding of technology and emphasis on business. Although the material is fairly high-level it is also suitable for developers, DBAs and other technical types who may not be exposed to messaging architectures, or whose life is more oriented towards transaction processing. Another chapter that may have a wide technical audience is the one that addresses object architectures. For all of the hype and buzzwords, object-orientation is still grossly misunderstood, even by people who are suppost to understand it. I like the way the material was presented.
I got the most from the chapter that covered the author's Secure Application Integration Methodology (SAIM). I saw a lot of parallels between their method (which is proprietary to their company, Concept5), and the work developed by the company for which I work (naturally, proprietary as well). Too bad this book is a technical brief because I would have loved more details on the SAIM methodology :-)
If you are looking for a "nuts and bolts" book this one is not it. If you are trying to get quickly up to speed in EAI, this is a great starting point. I read the book because I was looking for material that I could give to clients, and this one fit my needs perfectly. I recommend it to its intended audience and give it five stars for doing what it claims: giving a clear, understandable summary of a complex subject.
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