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SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design (Theory in Practice) | 
| Author: Nicolai M. Josuttis
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
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Pages: 342
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Dimensions (in): 9 x 7 x 0.9
ISBN: 0596529554
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.65
EAN: 9780596529550
ASIN: 0596529554
Publication Date: August 24, 2007
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This book demonstrates service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. Built upon the author's firsthand experience rolling out a SOA at a major corporation, SOA in Practice explains how SOA can simplify the creation and maintenance of large-scale applications. Whether your project involves a large set of Web Services-based components, or connects legacy applications to modern business processes, this book clarifies how -- and whether -- SOA fits your needs. SOA has been a vision for years. This book brings it down to earth by describing the real-world problems of implementing and running a SOA in practice. After defining SOA's many facets, examining typical use patterns, and exploring how loose coupling helps build stronger applications, SOA in Practice presents a framework to help you determine when to take advantage of SOA. In this book you will: Focus squarely on real deployment and technology, not just standards maps Examine business problems to determine which ones fit a SOA approach before plastering a SOA solution on top of them Find clear paths for building solutions without getting trapped in the mire of changing web services details Gain the experience of a systems analyst intimately involved with SOA "The principles and experiences described in this book played an important role in making SOA at T-Mobile a success story, with more than 10 million service calls per day." --Dr. Steffen Roehn, Member of the Executive Committee T-Mobile International (CIO) "Nicolai Josuttis has produced something that is rare in the over-hyped world of SOA; a thoughtful work with deep insights based on hands-on experiences. This bookis a significant milestone in promoting practical disciplines for all SOA practitioners." --John Schmidt, Chairman, Integration Consortium "The book belongs in the hands of every CIO, IT Director and IT planning manager." --Dr. Richard Mark Soley, Chairman and CEO, Object Management Group; Executive Director, SOA Consortium
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 This book enabled me to understand SOA November 20, 2008
Josuttis does an excellent job in transferring his vast experience with SOA architecture to the reader in ways that allow you to take your previous knowledge of enterprise software and (finally) understand SOA to the point where you can guide a team as to whats important and not important and where the pitfalls are.
There are some initial chapters that have some confusing points specifically around what an ESB is or is not and whether its needed in a SOA. To cut a long story short, Josuttis is being initially abstract about what an ESB is which is confusing when we have very specific examples in the marketplace. When he says you need an ESB to implement a SOA I was confused until he explained that you need specific functionality that you might implement in an application server (as many have successfully) or buy an EAI product or buy an ESB. After that it was plain sailing in terms of understanding what to think about architecturally.
This book is far more practical and accessible than the Thomas Erl books and articles that I've read which left me wanting less abstraction and more specifics. In addition he also covers the soft skills side (not just the technical side) which is critical when making stategic changes to IT systems.
To reiterate, clearly a lot of painful experience has been distilled here and you would be crazy not to read this book to get that injection of experience in your team.
This is a book that will build your confidence as an architect faced with SOA tasks.
 Starting with SOA October 30, 2008
This books shows you how to make a strategy to implements SOA systems. In some concepts it's very general and it have few examples. But have a general overview of what SOA systems migth be and some examples from writer personal experience was very useful to me.
I think that if you have no experience or knowledge about SOA this could be a good option to you. That's was my case when I red it, and I like it.
Brilliant Practice Orientation on SOA October 10, 2008
Josuttis managed to write an excellent book on the practical essence of the Service Oriented Architecture. He describes in precise words and with well thought examples how the new SOA paradigm will help shaping the future world of computing and he draws paths how an enterprise can gradually implement and benefit from SOA. Other than the popular but theory loaded book by Thomas Erl, Josuttis finds a way to teach the principles and pitfalls on the example of real-world experiences. Although the work is not a tutotrial, it is one of the best books out there in the markets to cover the topic. A must read for those who are more interested in "how-to" than a catch-all theory. Simply brilliant.
Good book on SOA concepts August 25, 2008
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Yesterday I've finished reading this interesting book from Nicolai Josuttis. I've been following Josuttis' work since my C++ times (which, btw, are a few years away now - enough for letting me sleep without thinking on memory management :)) and I was pleased to see that he still has the some easy reading writing style. This is a book on concepts. Unlike his previous work (which were on a specific technology - or should I say, language), you won't find any references to specific problems you may face while trying to "realize SOA".
Instead, you'll find an objective book which presents several aspects on SOA and offers several good advices which will really help you if you want to implement SOA in your company. And he manages to do all this in just about 300 pages (which is really cool because we don't really have time for big books, right? :) ). That means that I'm giving it 8/10.
Good Insight but thin in Implementation Details August 11, 2008
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This is an excellent book to understand SOA. The Author has put in a lot of valuable architectural views on SOA best practice which would be useful for anyone who cares about design rationales. The only small complaint is the coverage on implementation details; For example, the section on WS-Security is really lack of details, not even a sample WSDL on WS-Policy. However I appreciated that code details could be left out and I think it is very effective for a book of 300 pages to cover so many key items of such a wide-spread topic, it would be very helpful if the writer can refer to some URL links so that audience can go into details by themselves. Overall I think this is a very good SOA book to read
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