Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 342 pages
- Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc. August 24, 2007
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 0596529554
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0596529550
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Book Dimensions:
9 x 7 x 0.9 inches
- Weighs: 1.1 pounds
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, looking at 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
"The principles and experiences described in this book played an important role in making SOA at T-Mobile a success story, with more than ten million service calls per day."
--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
About The Author
Nicolai Josuttis wrote "The C++ Standard Library" and "C++ Templates" for Addison-Wesley. Josuttis has worked as a systems architect for years, and most recently has spent two years rolling out an SOA at a major mobile phone company. He's presenting tuturials on SOAs at a number of conferences, and has been speaking on the subject for over a year.
Reader Reviews
After more than a decade of being the focus of the industry's attention, SOA is still widely misunderstood at all levels, business and technical, and is still being successfully sold as a snake oil. This is why the publication of this book is extremely important. Being a rare objective survey of the entire SOA landscape, the book touches on numerous dimensions of SOA and services: service classification, lifecycle, management, performance, security, and governance. In the still over-hyped SOA landscape, the author stands out with his reasoning and pragmatism, which he showed in his earlier books (e.g. his excellent book "The C++ Standard Library"). On about 300 pages the author manages not just to cover numerous important topics at a reasonable depth, but to pause at important points and suggest a helpful practical advice from his own experience. The book reads well, the language is simple and straightforward. This book has a lot of thought and value per ounce, which is very unusual for a SOA book. Whether you are new to SOA or have been sick from reading mountains of nonsense about it for years, you MUST have this book on your bookshelf, next to "Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices" by Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, and Dirk Slama, and "Service Orient or Be Doomed" by ZapThink founders Jason Bloomberg and Ronald Schmelzer.
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