eBook By Category (Service Oriented Architecture (SOA))

Conventional wisdom of the `software stack` approach to building applications may no longer be relevant

Enterprises are pursuing new ways of organizing systems and processes to become service oriented and event-driven

Leveraging existing infrastructural investments is a critical aspect to the success of companies both large and small

Information Technology professionals can use this book to move beyond the excitement of web services and service oriented architecture (SOA) and begin the process of finding actionable ideas to innovate and create business value

In `Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation,` SAP's blueprint for putting SOA to work is analyzed from top to bottom

In addition to design, development, and architecture, vital contextual issues such as governance, security, change management, and culture are also explored

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

Without the right controls to govern SOA development, the right set of tools to build SOA, and the right support of exciting new protocols and patterns, your SOA efforts can result in software that delivers only 1

5 transactions per second (TPS) on expensive modern servers

This is a disaster enterprises, organizations, or institutions avoid by using Frank Cohen's FastSOA patterns, test methodology, and architecture

The Practitioner?s Guide to Implementing SOA with Java EE Technologies

This book brings together all the practical insight you need to successfully architect enterprise solutions and implement them using SOA and Java EE technologies

Writing for senior IT developers, strategists, and enterprise architects, the authors cover everything from concepts to implementation, requirements to tools

Java SOA Cookbook offers practical solutions and advice to programmers charged with implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in their organization

Instead of providing another conceptual, high-level view of SOA, this cookbook shows you how to make SOA work

It's full of Java and XML code you can insert directly into your applications and recipes you can apply right away

You can build a world-class SOA infrastructure entirely using popular, and mature, open-source applications

Unfortunately, the technical documentation for most open-source projects focuses on a specific product, the big SOA picture

You're left to your own devices to figure out how to cobble together a full solution from the various bits

Design and build Service-Oriented Architecture Solutions with the Oracle SOA Suite 10gR3 A hands-on guide to using and applying the Oracle SOA Suite in the delivery of real-world SOA applications

Detailed coverage of the Oracle Service Bus, BPEL Process Manager, Web Service Manager, Rules, Human Workflow, and Business Activity Monitoring

Master the best way to combine / use each of these different components in the implementation of a SOA solution

While their basic principles and ideas are well understood and cogent from a conceptual perspective, the realization of interorganizational workflows and applications based on service-oriented architectures (SOAs) remains a complex task, and, especially when it comes to security, the implementation is still bound to low-level technical knowledge and hence inherently error-prone

Hafner and Breu set a different focus

Based on the paradigm of model-driven security, they show how to systematically design and realize security-critical applications for SOAs

This comprehensive resource covers all the components, issues, standards, and technologies that create a service-oriented enterprise

Filled with real-world examples, Service Oriented Enterprises shows IT managers, CIOs, software architects, software developers, innovative and practical service-oriented solutions

Its framework for aligning services with business goals empowers IT executives to make the right decisions about deploying service-oriented applications, architectures, and platforms

In Detail

The goal of Java Business Integration (JBI) is to allow components and services to be integrated in a vendor-independent way, allowing users and vendors to plug and play

Java Business Integration (JBI) is a specification aiming to define a Service Provider Interface for integration containers so that integration components written for these containers are portable across containers and also integrate with other components or services using standard protocols and formats

JBI is based on JSR 208, which is an extension of Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE)

Praise for Service-Oriented Architecture Compass `A comprehensive roadmap to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

SOA is, in reality, a business architecture to be used by those enterprises intending to prosper in the 21st century

Decision makers who desire that their business become flexible can jumpstart that process by adopting the best practices and rules of thumb described in SOA Compass

A must-have guide for all companies undertaking service-oriented architecture (SOA) and IT governance

Service-Oriented Architecture Governance for the Services Driven Enterprise expertly covers the business, organizational, process, compliance, security, and technology facets of SOA and IT governance

This book provides a comprehensive enterprise view of governance from a strategic and tactical perspective, as well as modeling and planning tools to help evolve a company's ongoing governance requirements

Written by Eric Marks and the industry's leading SOA authorities, this essential book provides a refreshing business-driven perspective to SOA and IT governance

As XML becomes an increasingly significant part of the IT mainstream, expert guidance and common-sense strategies are required to avoid the many pitfalls of applying XML incorrectly or allowing it to be used in an uncontrolled manner

This book acts as a knowledge base for issues relating to integration, and provides clear, concise advice on how to best determine the manner and direction XML technology should be positioned and integrated

The book will be one of the first to provide documentation for second-generation Web services technologies (also known as WS-*)

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

Answers to your most pressing SOA development questions

How do we start with service modeling? How do we analyze services for better reusability? Who should be involved?

With the introduction of increasingly complex Web services over the last decade, there has been an explosion of interest in service-oriented architecture (SOA), a structural style whose goal is to achieve a coupling of interacting services - functionalities such as filling out an online application for an account, viewing an online bank statement, or placing an online booking or airline ticket order

These services operate through specific interfaces that control and define their operation

However, due to the evolving nature of enterprises, new services and applications must often be incorporated into these same interfaces

XML, Web services, ESB, and BPEL in real-world SOA projects

In Detail

Integration of applications within a business and between different businesses is becoming more and more important

The needs for up-to-date information that is accessible from almost everywhere and developing e-business solutions -- particularly business to business -- require that developers find solutions for integrating diverse, heterogeneous applications, developed in different architectures and programming languages and on different platforms

They have to do this quickly and cost effectively, but still preserve the architecture and deliver robust solutions that are maintainable over time

?SOA Design Patterns is an important contribution to the literature and practice
of building and delivering quality software-intensive systems

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- Grady Booch, IBM Fellow

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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software

If your company?s development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called `services,` which allow for a quick response to change

This book demonstrates service-oriented architecture (SOA) as a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts

Built upon the author's firsthand experience rolling out a SOA at a major corporation, SOA in Practice explains how SOA can simplify the creation and maintenance of large-scale applications

Whether your project involves a large set of Web Services-based components, or connects legacy applications to modern business processes, this book clarifies how -- and whether -- SOA fits your needs

?This book could be described as an encyclopedia of service design?Erl leaves nothing to chance

SOA is one of the latest technologies enterprises are using to tame their software costs - in development, deployment, and management

SOA makes integration easy, helping enterprises not only better utilize their existing investments in applications and infrastructure, but also open up new business opportunities

However, one of the big stumbling blocks in executing SOA is security

Foreword by Ray Harishankar, IBM Fellow

`There are many books on the market on the topic of SOA and SOA's business and technology value

This book focuses on one of the key technical values of SOA and does an excellent job of describing SOA-based application integration by clarifying the relationship and patterns of SOA with other integration technologies in a distributed computing environment

` Sandra Carter, IBM Vice President for SOA, BPM, and WebSphere Marketing

`Services Oriented Architectures present many challenges today in the integration of existing systems and new systems, along with many times, old legacy mainframe applications

Companies worldwide are rapidly adopting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), a design methodology used to connect systems as services, and Business Process Management (BPM), the art of orchestrating these services

Media organizations from news organizations to music and media download services to movie studios are adapting to SOA-style architectures, but have run into roadblocks unique to the media and entertainment industry

These challenges include incorporating real-time data, moving large amounts of data at one time, non-linearity and flexibility for workflow, and unique metrics and data gathering

Understanding IBM SOA Foundation Suite

Learning Visually with Examples

Master the IBM SOA Foundation Through 26 Hands-On, Start-to-Finish Tutorials

The IBM SOA Foundation Suite is an integrated, open-standards-based set of software, best practices, and patterns that help you systematically maximize the business value of SOA

Understanding IBM SOA Foundation Suite brings together 26 hands-on tutorials that will help you master IBM SOA Foundation and apply it successfully in your organization

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