Description:
This advanced reference shows how to balance the delivery of immediate business value while creating long-term strategic capability. The book details the fundamentals of service-oriented architectures (find, bind and execute), and the four aspects to SOA (Production, Consumption, Management and Provisioning), and shows how to implement them in the just-in-time world of 21st Century business. The authors, all leaders in business innovation, discuss integration challenges and common errors, and offer guidance on building enterprise class services right - the first time. Includes dozens of examples of architectures, procedures and practical guidelines.
Review Quotes:
From the reviews:
"McGovern, Sims, Jain, and Little have authored a comprehensive book on enterprise service-oriented architectures (SOAs). ... Those architects who plan to learn about the subject would do well to go through this book. ... It clearly outlines the purpose of the book and the ways of using it. ... The book has excellent content for a technologically oriented person to learn about SOA. ... This book is well worth having for a technologist." (Shantanu Bhattacharya, ACM Computing Reviews, Vol. 49 (4), April, 2008)