Synopses & Reviews
You need more than theory to make SOA work.You need this practical guide.
The challenge today's IT professionals face is not how to build a service. It's how to build a quality service, based on solid design principles and integrated into an architecture that enhances overall business processes. If you are a systems architect or designer, a business analyst, or an IT manager, this book gives you the architecture and design principles along with a methodology that empowers you to meet that challenge. Here are the tools you need to develop services that deliver the benefits of SOA.
Understand how SOA provides improved flexibility, reduced costs, and competitive advantages
Examine the overall enterprise context, architectural layers, domain-specific concepts, and essential service characteristics
Learn how to align SOA with your business, identify services, and create solutions
Explore business architecture and business process modeling
See how to design service interfaces and implementations
Create enterprise services that integrate existing applications and data
Create enterprise solutions from existing services
Apply security blueprints for determining and implementing appropriate safeguards
Utilize successful techniques for flexible servicecomposition and semantic interoperability
Prepare to effectively manage your projects, utilizing best practices and strategies for SOA management and governance
Benefit from detailed case study examples
Synopsis
This book will begin where many high-level books end, offering the reader a practical guide for applying design strategies to service-oriented applications. The book starts by discussing the expected benefits of SOA and the architectural principles needed to create successful applications. Then, we will provide an overview of the process for designing services and service-oriented applications. Each major step of the process will be followed with a chapter that describes the detailed process and principles for that step, with handy tips and techniques for applying them. Throughout the book, we will demonstrate the process with extensive examples. Finally, the book concludes with two different, complete, end-to-end case studies.
Synopsis
- Endorsed by all major vendors (Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP), SOA has quickly become the industry standard for building next-generation software; this practical guide shows readers how to achieve the many benefits of SOA
- Begins with a look at the architectural principles needed to create successful applications and then goes on to examine the process for designing services and SOA implementations
- Each stage of the design process has an accompanying chapter that walks readers through the details and provides helpful tips, techniques, and examples
- The author team of SOA practitioners also provides two unique, comprehensive, end-to-end case studies illustrating the architectural and design techniques presented in the book
About the Author
Michael Rosen is chief scientist for Wilton Consulting Group, editorial director of the SOA Institute, Director of Architecture for Cutter Consortium, and a respected industry spokesperson.
Boris Lublinsky is lead architect at Navteq, where he is responsible for SOA and BPM implementations.
Kevin T. Smith is a technical director at McDonald Bradley, Inc., where he builds highly secure and data-driven SOA solutions for the U.S. government.
Marc J. Balcer founded ModelCompilers.com, a provider of tools and services for model-based development.
Table of Contents
Part One Understanding SOA.Chapter 1 Realizing the Promise of SOA.
Chapter 2 SOA — Architecture Fundamentals.
Chapter 3 Getting Started with SOA.
Part Two Designing SOA.
Chapter 4 Starting with the Business.
Chapter 5 Service Context and Common Semantics.
Chapter 6 Designing Service Interfaces.
Chapter 7 Designing Service Implementations.
Chapter 8 Composing Services.
Chapter 9 Using Services to Build Enterprise Solutions.
Chapter 10 Designing and Using Integration in SOA Solutions.
Chapter 11 SOA Security.
Chapter 12 SOA Governance.
Part Three Case Studies.
Chapter 13 Case Study — Travel Insurance.
Chapter 14 Case Study — Service-Based Integration in Insurance.
Appendix A Business Use Cases.
Appendix B Evaluating SOA Services.
Appendix C Additional Reading.
Index.