Foreword by S. Somasegar

Within the last decade, service-oriented architecture has moved from infancy to ubiquity, precipitating and, in many ways, enabling the next paradigm of information technology—cloud computing. As the Software + Services model becomes the norm, businesses that embrace SOA will smoothly transition to the cloud, enabling better scaling, availability, and cost efficacy of their services.

Service-oriented architecture is the magic behind many of the Internet-based applications and services that seamlessly integrate information and data from multiple sources into a single experience. The loosely-coupled design of SOA allows developers to take advantage of existing services to build their applications, dynamically adapt to ...

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