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Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices (Coad Series)
by Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama
from Prentice Hall PTR

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• Scattered, Out-of-Date,
  The authors attempt an ambitious goal of covering many SOA topics - but their resulting text come across as scattered - vague - and lacking a coherent and practical application.
  Thomas Erl's books are much better written - and have a coherent approch to buliding a solid body of knowledge.
  For a manager / salesperson wanting a broad overview of SOA - they might be better served by reading Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies
  Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies (For Dummies... more info

• Excellent book with excellent examples
  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... more info

• Useful at an architectural level but not at a development level
  May be I was expecting too much out of this book, it provides good categorization of different types of services and the roadmap - however I feel it lacks some details on the technical implementation part as to what tools/technologies/standards are ideal to implement this architecture.
  Again, may be my expectation was not realistic.

• No nonsense, practical advice
  Frankly, I thought SOA was just a bunch of marketing hype until I read this book. The authors begin by clearly explaining of the kinds of problems SOA is trying to solve, and how other architectures tried and failed (or partially succeeded) to solve these problems. In fact, you don't get a definition of SOA until chapter 4, which is a good thing. The advice and strategies are well-reasoned and practical. The organizational roadmap seems to be unique among SOA books, and is clearly derived from experience.... more info

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