Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design

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Understanding Enterprise SOA

Format: Paperback
Author: Eric Pulier
ReleaseDate: 01 November, 2005
Publisher: Manning Publications
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VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
Authors Eric Pulier and Hugh Taylor, have done an outstanding job of writing a book for business professionals that explains and clarifies the way web services work in a business setting. Are you having a problem making sense of the new emerging standards for virtually all of the major information technology decisions? If you are, then this book is for you.

Pulier and Taylor, begin by providing a broad overview of web services, how they work, and what they can do for your business. Then, they introduce the concept of the service-oriented architecture. The authors continue by exploring how the enterprise SOA changes the terrain of enterprise application integration, software development, business-to-business commerce, business process management, and real-time operations. Next, they introduce the extremely important discussions of security and management of enterprise SOA. Then, the authors look at SOA networks and utility computing, two deployment scenarios that are likely to be on your horizon if you are considering and SOA. The authors continue by looking at realizing Titan's wish list for its SOA and begin to sort out how to deal with the individual players involved in the process. Next, they continue with a description of how they achieved consensus among the players about how to pursue an effective SOA. Then, the authors introduce the "four P's" and their suggested four stage process for best practices in enterprise SOA. They also go into more depth on how the training and pilot planning process works. The authors continue by examining platform selection and establishment of project goals and measurements of success. Finally, they conclude the book with a look at how Titan Insurance has moved forward with its SOA plan.

This most excellent book is organized around two critical areas necessary in realizing an enterprise SOA: technology and people. The authors will show you how to think in a big way--moving confidently between technology- and business-level concerns.
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I have read 4 books on this subject and this is by far the best
I can't imagine a better more concise inrtroduction to this subject. This is the first time I have created a review but I felt compelled to offset the 1 person out of 12 who gave this book a bad rating. I can't understand what would motivate somone to give this book a bad review. The title of the book is UNDERSTANDING Enterprise SOA not EXPERT'S guide to Enterprise SOA and it is so well written with such great diagrams that even a non-IT person could understand the material. The examples ARE real and in fact almost EXACTLY mirror the environment of my current company - in fact it will serve as a valuable road map going forward.

If you want to understand this stuff and not get lost in all the vendor self serving hype GET THIS BOOK PERIOD!.

Good Overall View of What Can Be Done
The title of the book uses the term SOA which stands for service-oriented-architecture. This is an extremely well done book on explaining how to make different kinds of computer systems talk to one another. Other terms you might have heard for the same functionality include: SOAP (Simple object Access Protocol), WSDL (Web Services Description Language), UDDI (Uniersal Discovery, Description, and Integration), XML (eXtensible Markup Language), RSS (Rich Site Summary), or Web Services. These terms are not exactly the same thing, but are terms used as part of the implementation of data transfer between systems of different types.

The internet is for the transfer of information from a computer to an individual who is going to read, look at, store or whatever the information that is coming in. XML, or SOAP, or SOA, or Web Services is the standard by which two computers can talk to each other.

Want to see a system actually working. Go to www. Books-On-Line. com. In the upper left hand corner of the home page is a place to enter the ISBN numnber of a book. When you click on 'Get Prices' the Books-on-Line web site goes to Amazon Web Services, using XML and sends back to you the various prices at which you can buy this book from Amazon. It doesn't matter what kind of system you are running, which browser, or what kind of system Books-On-Line is running, or what Amazon uses. That's the beauty of industry wide standards.

This book is set at a fairly high view, that of the person in charge of setting up a system. It doesn't have code examples, but once you understand what can be done, then you at least know what you want to implement.

Good Book.