Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies
You need more than theory to make SOA work.You need this practical guide.The challenge today's IT professionals face is not how to build a service. It's how to build a quality service, based on solid design principles and integrated into an architecture that enhances overall business processes. If you are a systems architect or designer, a business analyst, or an IT manager, this book gives you the architecture and design principles along with a methodology that empowers you to meet that challenge. Here are the tools you need to develop services that deliver the benefits of SOA.Understand how SOA provides improved flexibility, reduced costs, and competitive advantagesExamine the overall enterprise context, architectural layers, domain-specific concepts, and essential service characteristicsLearn how to align SOA with your business, identify services, and create solutionsExplore business architecture and business process modelingSee how to design service interfaces and implementationsCreate enterprise services that integrate existing applications and dataCreate enterprise solutions from existing servicesApply security blueprints for determining and implementing appropriate safeguardsUtilize successful techniques for flexible servicecomposition and semantic interoperabilityPrepare to effectively manage your projects, utilizing best practices and strategies for SOA management and governanceBenefit from detailed case study examples