4 Patterns: Extended Enterprise SOA and Web Services
1.1 An introduction to this document
A warm welcome to this redbook, from the IBM Redbook team. We all assembled
for five intense weeks in Raleigh, North Carolina, and then again remotely
through the review process, to put together this resource. We hope you find it a
useful read.
This document focuses on patterns for integrating multiple enterprises together
(we call this the Extended Enterprise) using service-oriented architecture (SOA)
and Web services. We expand this focus to include a hot topic in SOA
architecture called the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
This book was designed with IT Architects, System Administrators, and
Application Programmers in mind. Throughout this book we discuss ...