Book description
This 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
--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 book is 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
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Table of contents
- Preface
- 1. Motivation
- 2. SOA
- 3. Services
- 4. Loose Coupling
- 5. The Enterprise Service Bus
- 6. Service Classification
- 7. Business Process Management
- 8. SOA and the Organization
- 9. SOA in Context
- 10. Message Exchange Patterns
- 11. Service Lifecycle
- 12. Versioning
- 13. SOA and Performance
- 14. SOA and Security
- 15. Technical Details
- 16. Web Services
- 17. Service Management
- 18. Model-Driven Service Development
- 19. Establishing SOA and SOA Governance
- 20. Epilogue
- References
- Glossary
- Index
- About the Author
- COLOPHON
- Copyright
Product information
- Title: SOA in Practice
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2007
- Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
- ISBN: 9780596529550
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