Service Oriented Architecture

This is a comprehensive tutorial that teaches fundamental and advanced SOA design principles, supplemented with detailed case studies and technologies used to implement SOAs in the real world. ***We'll have cover endorsements from Tom Glover, who leads IBM's Web Services Standards initiatives; Dave Keogh, Program Manager for Visual Studio Enterprise Tools at Microsoft, and Sameer Tyagi, Senior Staff Engineer, Sun Microsystems. All major software manufacturers and vendors are promoting support for SOA.

— SOA is the most important initiative facing IT today and is difficult to grasp; this book demystifies the complex topic of SOA and makes it accessible to all those people who hear the term but aren't really sure what it means — This team of well-respected authors explains that SOA is a collection of applications that enables resources to be available to other participants in a network using any service-based technology — Examines how SOA enables faster and cheaper application development and how it offers reusable code that can be used across various applications — Covers what SOA is, why it matters, how it can impact businesses, and how to take steps to implement SOA in a corporate environment

SOA is the most important initiative facing IT today and is difficult to grasp; this book demystifies the complex topic of SOA and makes it accessible to all those people who hear the term but aren't really sure what it means.