The purpose of Service-Oriented Principles and Applications is to share my understanding of service-oriented architecture. SOA is an architectural pattern in software in which application components provide services to other components. This book of over 100,000 words and twenty chapters has three parts. I explain fundamental SOA principles in the first part. The second part shows how we can synergize SOA with clouds, business intelligence, mobility, big data, and other applications. Finally, I will discuss next generation SOA.CONTENTSPart PrinciplesChapter Why We Start With PrinciplesChapter What Are Services?Chapter Architecting Service-Oriented TechnologiesChapter Patterns and PrinciplesChapter SOA’s Four Horsemen of the ApocalypseChapter Machiavelli's SOAPart ApplicationsChapter AgileChapter Clouds and SOAChapter Business Intelligence as a ServiceChapter Big Data as a ServiceChapter A SOA Business Case AnnotationChapter Scaling Service-Oriented ArchitecturePart The Future of SOAChapter Future PossibilitiesChapter Future SOAChapter SOA RisksChapter SOA as a Strategic Business DriverChapter SOA as Emerging TechnologyChapter SOA as Enterprise ArchitectureChapter SOA and GovernanceChapter The Art of SOAAppendicesAppendix SOA ResourcesAppendix Selected Design PatternsAppendix Notational SemanticsAppendix Service InventoriesAppendix SecurityAppendix Cloud ResourcesAppendix Glossary
Philip Wik is the author of more than thirty books spanning memoir, travel, business, history, politics, philosophy, mystery, children’s books, and fiction. His first book, How To Do Business With the People's Republic of China, accompanied President Reagan’s staff on their historic 1984 China visit. He has published with Prentice-Hall and continues to write under his own imprint, Blue Kitten Books.
Philip’s work combines insight, humor, and storytelling, taking readers on journeys across the globe, through history, and into the imagination. Whether exploring life’s big questions or sharing family history, his books inspire curiosity, reflection, and discovery.