Product Description
This is a comprehensive tutorial that teaches fundamental and advanced SOA design principles, supplemented with detailed case studies and technologies used to implement SOAs in the real world. ***We’ll have cover endorsements from Tom Glover, who leads IBM’s Web Services Standards initiatives; Dave Keogh, Program Manager for Visual Studio Enterprise Tools at Microsoft, and Sameer Tyagi, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems. All major software manufacturers and vendors are promoting support for SOA. As a result, every major development platform now officially supports the creation of service-oriented solutions. Parts I, II, and III cover basic and advanced SOA concepts and theory that prepare you for Parts IV and V, which provide a series of step-by-step “how to” instructions for building an SOA. Part V further contains coverage of WS-* technologies and SOA platform support provided by J2EE and .NET.
Service-Oriented Architecture : Concepts, Technology, and Design
It is a very comprehensive and well structured refference, specialy on technical aspects.
Rating: 5 / 5
Good coverage of SOA, author tried his level best to explain the concepts by using an example.
Rating: 4 / 5
I’ve had this book for several months now, and read various sections of it. Though not all. Kinda lengthy, you know. But you can use just the portions needed for your stuff. Erl’s examples help give it flesh. I find the jargon is still sometimes too much. But he didn’t make that up. Seems to be what we all’re stuck with in SOA.
Be VERY cautious of some other recent reviews of the book. Two or three of them gave very negative reports. But mayhaps they didnt read very much of it? Hey check this out. Some of them only have done one review. Of this book. Bit suss, eh? Are those real reviews? Heck, are those real reviewers?
Rating: 5 / 5
I gave this book some harsh reviews three weeks ago. Doubt and uncertainty about my assessment crept in as I kept reading all the other glowing reviews. So I gave it another try. And I found out I was being unfair. The book is in fact worse than I originally thought. Its littered with childish diagrams and metaphors who do nothing but add to the page count. The font and spacing are also cleverly crafted to increment book mass rather than understanding. It is painful to read as the author dilutes his meager message with summaries and overviews and summaries of overviews. I cannot even tell if the book is accurate because the information contents are so slim as to take hours to extract the smallest sliver of knowledge. Readers looking for succinct, honest or well reasoned material will be sorely disappointed. I would recommend instead they look at “Enterprise SOA” by Krafzig et al.
Rating: 2 / 5
I can truly say that Thomas Erl is probably one of very few that truly understands Web services and SOA. His books (both of them) are an architects companion when it comes to coming up with an enterprise-wide solution. Thomas depicts the pro’s and con’s of each approach and gives the reader an insight into what a Service-Oriented Architecture can bring to the picture.
“Of the many books that cover Web services and SOA, Service-Oriented-Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services will certainly go down in history as one of the best. It’s the only book of its kind that covers the latest and the greatest Web services protocols.”
Rating: 5 / 5