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SOA for the Business Developer
Concepts, BPEL, and SCA
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"A comprehensive yet very approachable introduction to service-oriented architecture...[with] numerous examples that illustrate best practices in applying SOA to an enterprise. This book will help you untangle the technologies that underlie SOA -- XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL. SCA, SDO, and WS-Splat -- so that you can meaningfully begin your journey." -- 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 tells the SOA story in a simple, straightforward manner that will help you understand not only the buzzwords and benefits, but also the technologies that underlie SOA: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, SCA, and SDO. And through it all, the authors provide business examples and illustrations, giving a practical meaning to abstract ideas.
SOA for the Business Developer:
• Gives a detailed overview of Extensible Markup Language (XML), including namespaces
and XML schema.
• Describes Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and SOAP, the standard SOA technologies.
• Gives a clear tutorial on XML Path Language (XPath), a language for deriving data
from transmitted messages and other sources. XPath is useful for working with a variety of
other technologies, including several described in this book.
• Gives comprehensive details on BPEL 2.0, a language that coordinates services
and whose preceding version is already in numerous products. Our coverage is sufficient for
most of your work with BPEL and includes a quick-reference guide.
• Introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA), a proposed standard for composing
and deploying applications. You’re sure to hear more of SCA, which is sponsored by
18 companies.
• Introduces Service Data Objects (SDO), a proposed standard for representing data in a single
way, even if the data comes from different types of data sources. SDO is likely to accompany
SCA into the limelight.
What the Experts Are Saying:
"Stands out from the crowd, complementing the 100+ books now available on SOA. The clarity of descriptions, the naming of pitfalls and how to deal with them, and finally its comprehensiveness make this book a great advisor for everybody involved in implementing SOA."
-- Norbert Bieberstein, lead author of Service-Oriented Architecture Compass
"Business and IT managers alike have been searching for a book that provides a straight-forward and easier-to-understand explanation of service-oriented architecture and its benefits. SOA for the Business Developer is such a book, and should be on the must-read list for every business and IT manager.
-- Bob Thomas, publisher of Align Journal
"Covers services and their recursive composition into more complex services at a profound technical level, incorporating all relevant WS-* standards in their most current form, including WS-BPEL 2.0 and SCA. A big plus of the book is that the authors worked with technical experts from the various domains, ensuring utmost consistency with the official standard specifications, and, even more important, ensuring consistency with the specifications' intents."
-- Matthias Kloppmann, IBM Distinguished Engineer, Business Process Technology
"SOA is ultimately supposed to simplify and improve how we construct IT solutions – the devil, of course, is in the details. And, at a time when those details are still being worked out by the IT industry, the challenge of understanding how they all fit together can be quite daunting. In this book, Ben Margolis does us all a great service by bringing together the many different technical threads that make up the complex fabric of SOA, and weaving them into a coherent pattern that ordinary mortals can hope to understand and, more importantly, practically apply to their own situations."
-- Michael Guttman, Object Management Group authority on Model Driven Architecture (MDA), co-author of Real-Life MDA
"SOA for the Business Developer gives programmers and managers a friendly and rapid introduction to service-oriented architecture, with practical examples."
-- Frank Cohen, author of FastSOA
Contents:
Preface
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Services
Chapter 3: Highlight Insurance
Chapter 4: XML
Chapter 5: Established SOA Standards
Chapter 6: Introduction to XPath
Chapter 7: Introduction to BPEL
Chapter 8: BPEL Activity Highlights
Chapter 9: Introduction to SCA
Chapter 10: Introduction to SDO
Appendix: Guide to a Subset of WS-*
Appendix: Setup for XPath Practice
Appendix: Reference Guide for BPEL 2.0
Product Details: | Audience: | Traditional developers who need to learn about SOA, students of information technology, and general readers who want to learn about an important aspect of modern business. | | Level: | Novice to Intermediate | | Subject: | SOA | | Length: | 320 pages | | Format: | Paperback, Layflat | | Publisher: | MC Press | | Publish Date: | June 2007 |
SOA for the Business Developer
Concepts, BPEL, and SCA
Author: Ben Margolis with Joseph SharpePrice: $39.95
On Sale: $31.96
Availability: Ships Next Business Day
ISBN: 1-58347-065-4
SKU: 5079 | |
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