Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented
Architecture Best Practices by Dirk
Slama
Excellent Book With Excellent Examples
This book spells out guidelines and strategies for successfully using
ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA) in large-scale projects. SOA
represents the latestparadigm in distributed computing and middleware
development. However,SOA is not a revolution, but rather an evolution in
software architecture. SOAis a collection of best practice software
construction principles accompanied byproven methodologies in
development and project management.This book is unique in that it offers
a pragmatic approach to the topic. Theauthors borrow from their more than
forty years of collective enterpriseexperience, and offer a frank discussion
of the challenges associated withadopting SOA. They also help readers
ensure that their organization does notbecome too closely tied to a specific
technology. The result is a detailedintroduction to the topic and an
architectural blueprint for implementing SOA.

Personal Review: Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented
Architecture Best Practices by Dirk Slama
You come across very few people in life
a) who know what they are doing
b) who can teach others with good examples
c) who do not have any vested interest in sharing the knowledge.
The authors of this book come under this category. Not only they seem to
have worked on many best of breed SOA projects, they have a very good
ability to impart this knowledge. They discuss the pros and cons of all the
options and let reader choose what is best for his/her situation.
This book seems to have the right mix of technical, management and
business knowledge about SOA. Like many business oriented books it
does not limit itself to discussing the organizational challenges and project
management aspects. Like technical books, it does not limit itself to web
services. This book opens your mind to the real IT landscape in today's
organizations, particularly its heterogeneity. It opens your mind to thinking
how SOA can connect these heterogeneous systems and make them
productive. I have really enjoyed reading this book after completing my
architect certification.
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