Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 004.65 EAN: 9780596529550 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0596529554 Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 342 Publication Date: August 24, 2007 Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc. Sales Rank: 63849 Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Product DescriptionThis book demonstrates service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. Built upon the author's firsthand experience rolling out a SOA at a major corporation, SOA in Practice explains how SOA can simplify the creation and maintenance of large-scale applications. Whether your project involves a large set of Web Services-based components, or connects legacy applications to modern business processes, this book clarifies how -- and whether -- SOA fits your needs. SOA has been a vision for years. This book brings it down to earth by describing the real-world problems of implementing and running a SOA in practice. After defining SOA's many facets, examining typical use patterns, and exploring how loose coupling helps build stronger applications, SOA in Practice presents a framework to help you determine when to take advantage of SOA. In this book you will: Focus squarely on real deployment and technology, not just standards maps Examine business problems to determine which ones fit a SOA approach before plastering a SOA solution on top of them Find clear paths for building solutions without getting trapped in the mire of changing web services details Gain the experience of a systems analyst intimately involved with SOA 'The principles and experiences described in this book played an important role in making SOA at T-Mobile a success story, with more than 10 million service calls per day.' --Dr. Steffen Roehn, Member of the Executive Committee T-Mobile International (CIO) 'Nicolai Josuttis has produced something that is rare in the over-hyped world of SOA; a thoughtful work with deep insights based on hands-on experiences. This bookis a significant milestone in promoting practical disciplines for all SOA practitioners.' --John Schmidt, Chairman, Integration Consortium 'The book belongs in the hands of every CIO, IT Director and IT planning manager.' --Dr. Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group; Executive Director, SOA Consortium
Customer Reviews
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Rating: - This book enabled me to understand SOA
Josuttis does an excellent job in transferring his vast experience with SOA architecture to the reader in ways that allow you to take your previous knowledge of enterprise software and (finally) understand SOA to the point where you can guide a team as to whats important and not important and where the pitfalls are.
There are some initial chapters that have some confusing points specifically around what an ESB is or is not and whether its needed in a SOA. To cut a long story short, ... Read More
Rating: - Starting with SOA
This books shows you how to make a strategy to implements SOA systems. In some concepts it's very general and it have few examples. But have a general overview of what SOA systems migth be and some examples from writer personal experience was very useful to me.
I think that if you have no experience or knowledge about SOA this could be a good option to you. That's was my case when I red it, and I like it.
Rating: - Brilliant Practice Orientation on SOA
Josuttis managed to write an excellent book on the practical essence of the Service Oriented Architecture. He describes in precise words and with well thought examples how the new SOA paradigm will help shaping the future world of computing and he draws paths how an enterprise can gradually implement and benefit from SOA. Other than the popular but theory loaded book by Thomas Erl, Josuttis finds a way to teach the principles and pitfalls on the example of real-world experiences. Although the work ... Read More
Rating: - Good book on SOA concepts
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Yesterday I've finished reading this interesting book from Nicolai Josuttis. I've been following Josuttis' work since my C++ times (which, btw, are a few years away now - enough for letting me sleep without thinking on memory management :)) and I was pleased to see that he still has the some easy reading writing style. This is a book on concepts. Unlike his previous work (which were on a specific technology - or should I say, language), you won't find any references to ... Read More
Rating: - Good Insight but thin in Implementation Details
This is an excellent book to understand SOA. The Author has put in a lot of valuable architectural views on SOA best practice which would be useful for anyone who cares about design rationales. The only small complaint is the coverage on implementation details; For example, the section on WS-Security is really lack of details, not even a sample WSDL on WS-Policy. However I appreciated that code details could be left out and I think it is very effective for a book of 300 pages to cover so many key ... Read More
- This book enabled me to understand SOA 
- Starting with SOA
