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| Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies (For Dummies (Computer/Tech)) | 
| Authors: Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Marcia Kaufman, Fern Halper
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
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Edition: 2nd
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Pages: 408
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ISBN: 0470376848
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
EAN: 9780470376843
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Feeling overwhelmed by the buzz about SOA?service oriented architecture? Take heart! Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Edition makes it easy to understand, plan, and implement the latest SOA solutions for your business. Whether you?re the IT person responsible for developing SOA or the executive who?s trying to get a handle on the concept, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Edition will help you understand what SOA is, why it?s important, and how you can make the most of it. You?ll find out about the business and financial aspects of SOA, how to decide if you need it, and what it can mean to your bottom line. Discover how to: - Identify the main components of SOA and how they work to create business processes
- Create reusable, flexible systems and avoid common pitfalls
- Deconstruct business processes and applications to identify their components, then put them together in new ways
- Construct SOA business applications for maximum adaptability
- Confirm quality in a situation that?s difficult to test, and assure the quality and consistency of your data
- Develop a governance strategy for SOA based on your company?s philosophy and culture
- Work with XML and understand how it?s used in SOA
- Maximize the benefits of unified communications
- Understand software ecosystems, rich interfaces, and the development lifecycle
Packed with real-life case studies illustrating how SOA has been applied in a variety of industries, Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies, 2nd Edition demystifies one of today?s hottest business tools.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 A Good Book but Not for Dummies! May 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I like this book because it is easy to read and it explains basic SOA concepts. This book will help you understand the major concepts but it is not a book that can get you started building services, SOA infrastructure and middleware.
And it is obviously not for dummies!
 Snake Oil March 6, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Reading this book may provide you with a few good buzzwords at IT cocktail parties, but forget about understanding what SOA is, and how it gets done in the real world.
Having worked in the IT industry as a consultant and executive for a long time, and having been on both sides of the business/technical divide, the title of this book intrigued me. So I thought I'd give it a shot, to see how SOA might be simply explained from a business, non technical point of view. But after reading the first 150 pages of the book and skimming through the rest, I quicky realized the book is useless. Both for business oriented people, and even more for technical people. In fact, the single web page SOA entry at Wikipedia will provide one with more knowledge and understanding of SOA than this whole book, in probably a 10th of the time.
SOA is real, (Amazon and Google are first rate implementation examples) but you would not know this from this book. Nor know how to go about implementing it. Extremely verbose and vague, the book contents seem to epitomize the bad rap executive level consultants sometimes get when they are accused of being payed large sums of money for essentially engaging in buzzwords compliance, all with dubious results.
Next time someone asks you if your enterprise is doing SOA, just say: "Of course we are! We have been re-orienting our IT infrastructure towards a business service centric architecture, with loosely coupled reusable software components!" And if you get paid for your answers, you can keep going on and on with similar language based on each of the words above.
Heck, if you are a consultant, you could even write an entire book! That will be good advertising for your business, and at 300+ pages, nobody will suspect that your understanding of SOA is conceptual and superficial.
 Decent for a Beginner March 4, 2008
This is a goog book to get the basics. Some of the analogies are really good, but they seem to repeat them over and over. Decent reference though
Good overview, but too high level December 25, 2007
I suppose that, entering into any of the "Dummies" series, one should expect no more than introductory material, the corollary being that more detailed, technical knowledge would lie elsewhere. Thus it is with this book. If you are prepared for a surface buzzing of a broad range of topics relevant to SOA, including such useful matters as the business justification, the parts of an SOA necessarily to make it all work harmoniously, and even the different philosophies from various vendors (Oracle, SAP, etc.), then you'll be happy with this book. If, however, you're looking for a comprehensive treatment, that might begin with the business aspects and general structure, but then dive into the technologies, you'll find this book a disappointment.
I have two specific criticisms that cause my rating to be only three stars:
(1) while the textual coverage of SOA components--governance, security, the repository, and the registry, etc.--is clear, I quite wish that the diagrams were true architecture diagrams, UML-based. The material would have been clearer had it been represented with use case diagrams, activity diagrams, and sequence diagrams, instead of rectangles with lines between them.
(2) My other criticism goes to the gap between what the table of contents suggests, vs. what information the book delivers. That is, when a prospective reader is deciding whether to invest time in a book, typically the table of contents yields reliable information. Sometimes, though, a table of contents overreaches what the book itself is able to achieve. Such is the case here. For example, the Part V table of contents suggests that within would like a treatise on each major vendor's approach to SOA, including IBM, HP, BEA, Oracle, SAP, and JBoss. Alas, the details were too sketchy to be useful.
In brief, then, if the reader is willing to invest eight hours (that's how long this reader required, cover to cover) to gain a broad understanding of SOA, then this might be the book for you. If you're looking for a detailed treatment, or a comprehensive guide, look elsewhere.
I'm no dummy, but this is good! September 9, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have always been seriously put off by the "Dummies" series. I would like to buy books that assume some intelligence on the part of the reader. I don't like being talked down to.
But this book doesn't do that. Instead it explains concepts clearly, and has been a great help to me in understanding the clouds of jargon that surround this topic. The explanation of the components of SOA and how they hook together is excellent!
Because I am not yet directly involved, I cannot judge the accuracy of their details (and of course, they may change over time), but since the objective is to get the main concepts across, I believe the authors are successful.
I really wish, though, that the series were called "Achieving Buzzword Compliance in ...".
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