SOA in Practice: Implementing Total Architecture

Putting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) into Practice

“This book is a must-have for enterprise architects implementing SOA. Through practical examples, it explains the relationship between business requirements, business process design, and service architecture. By tying the SOA implementation directly to business value, it reveals the key to ongoing success and funding.”
        —Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect, Con-way, Inc.

“While there are other books on architecture and the implementation of ESB, SOA, and related technologies, this new book uniquely captures the knowledge and experience of the real world. It shows how you can transform requirements and vision into solid, repeatable, and value-added architectures. I heartily recommend it.”
        —Mark Wencek, SVP, Consulting Services & Alliances, Ultimo Software Solutions, Inc.

In his first book, Succeeding with SOA, Paul Brown explained that if enterprise goals are to be met, business processes and information systems must be designed together as parts of a total architecture. In this second book, Implementing SOA , he guides you through the entire process of designing and developing a successful total architecture at both project and enterprise levels. Drawing on his own extensive experience, he provides best practices for creating services and leveraging them to create robust and flexible SOA solutions.

Coverage includes

• Evolving the enterprise architecture towards an SOA while continuing to deliver business value on a project-by-project basis
• Understanding the fundamentals of SOA and distributed systems, the dominant architectural issues, and the design patterns for addressing them
• Understanding the distinct roles of project and enterprise architects and how they must collaborate to create an SOA
• Understanding the need for a comprehensive total architecture approach that encompasses business processes, people, systems, data, and infrastructure
• Understanding the strategies and tradeoffs for implementing robust, secure, high-performance, and high-availability solutions
• Understanding how to incorporate business process management (BPM) and business process monitoring into the enterprise architecture

Whether you’re defining an enterprise architecture or delivering individual SOA projects, this book will give you the practical advice you need to get the job done.

Paul C. Brown is Principal Software Architect at TIBCO, a world leader in enterprise software and services (www.tibco.com). His model-based tool architectures underlie applications ranging from process control interfaces to NASA satellite mission planning. Dr. Brown’s extensive work on enterprise-scale information systems led him to develop the total architecture concept introduced in his first book, Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture (Addison-Wesley, 2007). He received his Ph.D. in computer science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.