Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies - Softcover

Rosen, Michael; Lublinsky, Boris; Smith, Kevin T.; Balcer, Marc J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470223650 ISBN 13: 9780470223659

Publisher: Wiley, 2008

Synopsis

• Endorsed by all major vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP), SOA has quickly become the industry standard for building next-generation software; this practical guide shows readers how to achieve the many benefits of SOA
• Begins with a look at the architectural principles needed to create successful applications and then goes on to examine the process for designing services and SOA implementations
• Each stage of the design process has an accompanying chapter that walks readers through the details and provides helpful tips, techniques, and examples
• The author team of SOA practitioners also provides two unique, comprehensive, end-to-end case studies illustrating the architectural and design techniques presented in the book

About this title

From the Back Cover:

You need more than theory to make SOA work.

You need this practical guide.

The challenge today's IT professionals face is not how to build a service. It's how to build a quality service, based on solid design principles and integrated into an architecture that enhances overall business processes. If you are a systems architect or designer, a business analyst, or an IT manager, this book gives you the architecture and design principles along with a methodology that empowers you to meet that challenge. Here are the tools you need to develop services that deliver the benefits of SOA.

• Understand how SOA provides improved flexibility, reduced costs, and competitive advantages

• Examine the overall enterprise context, architectural layers, domain-specific concepts, and essential service characteristics

• Learn how to align SOA with your business, identify services, and create solutions

• Explore business architecture and business process modeling

• See how to design service interfaces and implementations

• Create enterprise services that integrate existing applications and data

• Create enterprise solutions from existing services

• Apply security blueprints for determining and implementing appropriate safeguards

• Utilize successful techniques for flexible servicecomposition and semantic interoperability

• Prepare to effectively manage your projects, utilizing best practices and strategies for SOA management and governance

• Benefit from detailed case study examples

About the Author:

Michael Rosen is chief scientist for Wilton Consulting Group, editorial director of the SOA Institute, Director of Architecture for Cutter Consortium, and a respected industry spokesperson.

Boris Lublinsky is lead architect at Navteq, where he is responsible for SOA and BPM implementations.

Kevin T. Smith is a technical director at McDonald Bradley, Inc., where he builds highly secure and data-driven SOA solutions for the U.S. government.

Marc J. Balcer founded ModelCompilers.com, a provider of tools and services for model-based development.

About this edition

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470223650
• ISBN 13: 9780470223659
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 696