Service-oriented architecture

Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design
by Thomas Erl
Average Customer Review: based on 59 reviews.
Customer Review: Thomas Erl in this book provides an excellent reference and an independent/agnostic view of SOA that is not cluttered with Vendor speak. What I thought was valuable is the definition of business benefits, case studies and the beginning of SOA Principals and terminology that provides an organization a mechanism to organize their effo...

Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies
by Michael Rosen, Boris Lublinsky, Kevin T. Smith, Marc J. Balcer
Average Customer Review: based on 9 reviews.
Customer Review: I have not seen a SOA book that is as practical as this one. Most of the people I work with understand why SOA is important, and we all get the vision by now. Many of the other popular SOA books ONLY focus on the vision and "what is SOA?" but not much else. This book is different. It provides details. It focuses on architecture, desi...

Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) For Dummies, 2nd Edition
by Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, Fern Halper
Average Customer Review: based on 6 reviews.
Customer Review: I've always hated the "for Dummies" series -- while I never doubted its application to me (at least in some areas), I didn't think I should display my stupidity nakedly with a long line of yellow book spines! That said, the real difficulty with the series naming convention is it doesn't allow one to level-set purchases. Are the (IT-f...

Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
by Michael Bell
Average Customer Review: based on 31 reviews.
Customer Review: Before I purchased this book I was skeptical about its promise. I'm not a big fan of big title books or publishers' promotions. But this SOA modeling book is unique. It makes sense. It is logical. It is one of the best software modeling books that I have read. I think that it is big in historical proportions. A big part of it is a s...

Service-Oriented Architecture: A Field Guide to Integrating XML and Web Services (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl)
by Thomas Erl
Average Customer Review: based on 32 reviews.
Customer Review: It's a practical guide on defining service characteristics and design principles in multiple levels, from component implementation to application design to enterprise architecture. Very digestive material.

Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech))
by Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi, Marcia Kaufman
Average Customer Review: based on 16 reviews.
Customer Review: I like this book because it is easy to read and it explains basic SOA concepts. This book will help you understand the major concepts but it is not a book that can get you started building services, SOA infrastructure and middleware. And it is obviously not for dummies!

Security for Web Services and Service-Oriented Architectures
by Elisa Bertino, Lorenzo Martino, Federica Paci, Anna Squicciarini
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: November 2009

Business Process Management with a Business Rules Approach: Implementing The Service Oriented Architecture
by Tom Debevoise
Average Customer Review: based on 14 reviews.
Customer Review: Not only did I personally find this book complete with practical information, my IT department has as well. The review is similar to what my business is experiencing and has hit the nail on the head with the approach we need to take to steer our firm into growth mode, internally and in our market. I have recommended this book to oth...

Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL: From Business Process Modeling to Orchestration and Service Oriented Architecture
by Kapil Pant, Matjaz Juric
Average Customer Review: based on 1 review.
Customer Review: A brief background on my credentials - I'm with Interway , a company that provides software products to companies to help with their SOA needs (among other things). Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL (http://interway.sk/en/technologies/service-oriented-architecture-soa/resource-center/business-process-driven-soa-using-bpm...

Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
by Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama
Average Customer Review: based on 19 reviews.
Customer Review: Frankly, I thought SOA was just a bunch of marketing hype until I read this book. The authors begin by clearly explaining of the kinds of problems SOA is trying to solve, and how other architectures tried and failed (or partially succeeded) to solve these problems. In fact, you don't get a definition of SOA until chapter 4, which is...