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SOA for the Business Developer

• "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
• "SOA for the Business Developer offers a comprehensive yet very approachable introduction to service-oriented architecture. Drawing from their considerable practical experience, the authors provide 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 in the use of services."
  • Grady Booch, IBM Fellow and co-creator of the Unified Modeling Language
• "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