With all of the hype about SOA today, it is helpful to find a work that walks you through the basics of this architectural approach from someone with real implementation experience.
The book is quite large (760 pages with index) and covers a broad collection of SOA topics including a history of SOA, key service modeling and design principles. The book also covers important technology standards such as the WS-* specs and how they might fit into an SOA approach.
I ordered this before Christmas, but it just arrived today. Too bad I didn’t have it during the holiday down time.
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I’m thinking about buying a book that covers the basic concepts of SOA but that also gives good insight into specific standards such as the WS-* specs.
Now that you’ve had a year and a half to read the 760 pages of the book mentioned above :), would you recommend it for what I’m looking for? And do you have any other recommendations?
Yes, Erl’s SOA Concepts book has a few chapters that cover WS-* at a high level, but its not a deep dive on any one standard. I don’t have a title to recommend for a deep dive on WS-*.
Erl’s newest book on Service Design was just released last month (Aug 2007) and is helpful for architects interested in which design principles to incorporate when designing or building enterprise-class services.
