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Whether you’re the IT person responsible for developing SOA or the executive who’s trying to get a handle on the concept, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help you understand what SOA is, why it’s important, and how you can make the most of it. You’ll find out about the business and financial aspects of SOA, how to decide if you need it, and what it can mean to your bottom line. Discover how to:
- Identify the main components of SOA and how they work to create business processes
- Create reusable, flexible systems and avoid common pitfalls
- Deconstruct business processes and applications to identify their components, then put them together in new ways
- Construct SOA business applications for maximum adaptability
- Confirm quality in a situation that’s difficult to test, and assure the quality and consistency of your data
- Develop a governance strategy for SOA based on your company’s philosophy and culture
- Work with XML and understand how it’s used in SOA
- Maximize the benefits of unified communications
- Understand software ecosystems, rich interfaces, and the development lifecycle
Packed with real–life case studies illustrating how SOA has been applied in a variety of industries, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Edition demystifies one of today’s hottest business tools.
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Feeling overwhelmed by the buzz about service oriented architecture? Take heart! This bestselling guide makes it easy to understand what SOA is, why it′s important, and how your business can benefit. You′ll discover how to create reusable, flexible systems; how IT and management team up to make SOA work; and what SOA means to your bottom line.
- What it is — see how SOA is designed for maximum adaptability
Building blocks — examine the main components of SOA and how they work
Break it to fix it — learn to deconstruct business processes and applications to identify their components, then put them together in new ways
The "X" factor — explore XML and how it′s used in SOA
Who′s the governor? — develop a governance strategy for SOA based on your company′s business rules and requirements
Keep it clean — find out how to assure data quality and consistency
Everything in balance — understand SOA in context with Web 2.0, unified communications, and cloud computing
Open the book and find:
- An easy test to determine whether you need SOA
Four common pitfalls and how to avoid them
Lessons learned from successful IT executives
The significance of using a registry and repository
How to leverage existing assets
Why identity management software matters for SOA
The benefits of SOA service management
The ROI of SOA from real–world experiences
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If you're looking for how to write programs that output SOAP headers, this book is emphatically not for you. This so-called "low-SOA" point of view, in which "service oriented architecture" means only "addressing services with URL's to applications running behind web servers" is well-served by plenty of other books, and in any event isn't particularly interesting. Middleware is middleware, and while there are certainly differences in quality, performance, stability, reliability and integrity of various middleware architectures from XDR to CORBA, from DCOM to SOAP, they all perform the basic functions of finding, calling, and getting results from network-addressed applications or services. Enough said.
What's more interesting in a real SOA world -- what Gartner calls "high-SOA" -- is not how one builds services, but how one structures business processes given the capability to distribute infrastructure (and other) services. That's the focus of this book, and in fact the focus of the SOA Consortium [...] Assuming you can capture, precisely define, store, reuse and optimize business processes (some of which are automated, and some of which aren't), how would you structure your business to take advantage of that "modularity of process" to better build business capabilities that support your interactions with your customers and your suppliers?
In clearly laid-out chapters, accessible by any reader, this book details only briefly the technical underpinnings; but in far more detail (and to my mind, more interesting detail) how SOA changes your company's structure. Sure, SOA is a fashion that has struck the IT industry, like many others -- but that doesn't mean it lacks value as an approach, a methodology to optimizing the business. Certainly the adoption of SOA by industry -- Gartner has called SOA "mainstream" since late 2008 -- comes from more than simple fashion. It comes from a proven methodology for improving the bottom line, using IT automation where appropriate. Most importantly, the clear case studies in this book of SOA success in real companies make it an invaluable reference. Nothing clarifies a complex topic more than clearly-explicated case studies, and those alone makes this book worth far more than the price.
David Linthicum said it best when he said "SOA is something you do, not something you buy." That said, it's good to have a solid, well-structured introduction to hand when you're doing it -- so this book is something you buy!
It is full of stupid jokes, the table of contents is mostly useless because of the childish and uninformative chapter/section titles.
More than 50% of the book is useless fluff like "OK so you really want to know what service oriented architecture is? That's good, hold on, it won't be too hard -- you'll understand all of this later. Don't be scared off by these very technical terms -- we'll get through it...." --- PAGE AFTER PAGE of it. You will (literally) learn more from the Wikipedia article on SOA than you will from this entire book.
If you want a good book on the subject, get "SOA in Practice" by Nicolai Josuttis instead -- it is much clearer, more interesting, and in-depth.
Do not waste your money on this book -- get it from a library or a dumpster.
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