Description
Book SynopsisService-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your company’s development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called ""services,"" which allow for a quick response to change.
This book tells the SOA story in a simple, straightforward manner that will help you understand not only the buzzwords and benefits, but also the technologies that underlie SOA: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, SCA, and SDO. And through it all, the authors provide business examples and illustrations, giving a practical meaning to abstract ideas.
SOA for the Business Developer
• Gives a detailed overview of Extensible Markup Language (XML), including namespaces and XML schema.
• Describes Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and SOAP, the standard SOA technologies.
• Gives a clear tutorial on XML Path Language (XPath), a language for deriving data from transmitted messages and other sources. XPath is useful for working with a variety of other technologies, including several described in this book.
• Gives comprehensive details on BPEL 2.0, a language that coordinates services and whose preceding version is already in numerous products. Our coverage is sufficient for most of your work with BPEL and includes a quick-reference guide.
• Introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA), a proposed standard for composing and deploying applications. You’re sure to hear more of SCA, which is sponsored by 18 companies, including IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.
• Introduces Service Data Objects (SDO), a proposed standard for representing data in a single way, even if the data comes from different types of data sources. SDO is likely to accompany SCA into the limelight.
Trade Review"Stands out from the crowd, complementing the 100+ books now available on SOA." —Norbert Bieberstein, author,
Service-Oriented Architecture Compass "Offers a comprehensive yet very approachable introduction to service-oriented architecture." —Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and cocreator of the Unified Modeling Language "Should be on the must-read list for every business and IT manager." —Bob Thomas, publisher,
Align Journal "Covers services and their recursive composition into more complex services at a profound technical level, incorporating all relevant WS-* standards." —Matthias Kloppmann, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Business Process Technology "Weaves [SOA] into a coherent pattern that ordinary mortals can hope to understand and, more importantly, practically apply to their own situations." —
Michael Guttman, Object Management Group authority on Model Driven Architecture (MDA) and coauthor,
Real-Life MDA "Gives programmers and managers a friendly and rapid introduction to service-oriented architecture, with practical examples." —Frank Cohen, author,
FastSOA "Margolis and Sharpe (both, IBM) provide a very comprehensive introduction to Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) for programmers. Highly recommended." —
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