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: John Wiley & Sons, 2008

Synopsis

The challenge 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. This book helps Service-Oriented Architecture work.

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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

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. It 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0470223650
• ISBN 13: 9780470223659
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 696