Next Generation Soa: A Concise Introduction to Service Technology & Service-Orientation

by Thomas Erl

After a decade of innovation in technology and practice, SOA is now a mainstream computing discipline, capable of transforming IT enterprises and optimizing business automation. In Next Generation SOA, top-selling SOA author Thomas Erl and a team of experts present a plain-English tour of SOA, service-orientation, and the key service technologies being used to build sophisticated contemporary service-oriented solutions.

The starting point for today’s IT professionals, this concise guide distills the increasingly growing and diverse field of service-oriented architecture and the real-world practice of building powerful service-driven systems. Accessible and jargon-free, this book intentionally avoids technical details to provide easy-to-understand, introductory coverage of the following topics:

Services, service-orientation, and service-oriented computing: what they are and how they have evolved
How SOA and service-orientation change businesses and transform IT culture, priorities, and technology decisions
How services are defined and composed to solve a wide spectrum of business problems
Deep implications of the service-orientation paradigm--illuminated through an annotation of the classic SOA Manifesto
Traditional and contemporary service technologies and architectures
How clouds and virtualization support the scalability and reliability of services-based solutions
SOA-based industry models, from enterprise service to global trader
A detailed case study: how real enterprises bring together contemporary SOA practices, models, and technologies
Next Generation SOA will be indispensable to wide audiences of business decision makers and technologists--including architects, developers, managers, executives, strategists, consultants, and researchers.

Genres: Architecture

208 pages, Paperback

First published January 12, 2012

Reviews

[Phil Wilkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the perfect book for anyone who wants to refresh, or get a handle on the foundations of SOA without delving into the deep technical details & implementation specifics. By working from the principles, the book shows how the SOA concepts and goals have matured, influenced and grown with technologies such as Master Data, Virtualization and Cloud. The book points to other volumes in the series for the depth of detail and technicalities, allowing you to get the broad picture view and without any vendor colouration.

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[TXReader · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very light introduction. Too abstract and high level. As a technical architect, I learnt a lot of theory behind SOA but not enough to start guiding my development team.