SOA-Based Enterprise Integration: A Step-by-Step Guide to Services-based Application

by Waseem Roshen

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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. This book successfully addresses many of the complexities we see in the integration of SOA and mainframe legacy applications, presenting options and approaches to integrate the applications with the rest of the enterprise. The author takes a clearly defined pattern-based approach discussing the advantages, tools and methods. Readers will benefit from the insights in this book whether they play the architect role or a developer role on a SOA project." Sue Miller-Sylvia, IBM Fellow and Application Development Service Area Leader

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Shayan aminnjad]

The book had a good start, made me curious about the topic. But as I read more, it got worse! The topic itself is not a hard topic, It is just about a bunch of problems with integrating applications in large businesses and technologies that address these problems. But jumps in topics, and bad examples makes this book hard to read. The book tries to explain the underlying of the technologies used, at the same time it also tries to stay practical and it fails to do achieve any of these! There were many times that I felt there should be more lines about the specific topic I was reading, and I saw things used in examples that were not explained clearly in the explanations! And examples themselves are really bad! Examples are intended to help understand a current topic, and the current topic must be bold in the example, but in this book, you always find extra useless information!
Also, I can't understand what is the relation between "modern application" and "java/C++"! Why does the author thinks if you write an application in C++ it can be better than if you wrote it in Fortran?