SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design

This book demonstrates service-oriented architecture (Soa) as a concrete discipline rather than a hopeful collection of cloud charts. Built upon the author's firsthand experience rolling out a Soa at a major corporation, Soa in Practice explains how Soa can simplify the creation and maintenance of large-scale applications. Whether your project involves a large set of Web Services-based components, or connects legacy applications to modern business processes, this book clarifies how - and whether - Soa fits your needs. Soa has been a vision for years. This book brings it down to earth by describing the real-world problems of implementing and running a Soa in practice. After defining Soa's many facets, examining typical use patterns, and exploring how loose coupling helps build stronger applications, Soa in Practice presents a framework to help you determine when to take advantage of Soa. In this book you will: Focus squarely on real deployment and technology, not just standards maps Examine business problems to determine which ones fit a Soa approach before plastering a Soa solution on top of them Find clear paths for building solutions without getting trapped in the mire of changing web services details Gain the experience of a systems analyst intimately involved with Soa "The principles and experiences described in this book played an important role in making Soa at T-Mobile a success story, with more than 10 million service calls per day" -Dr. Steffen Roehn, Member of the Executive Committee T-Mobile International (Cio) "Nicolai Josuttis has produced something that is rare in the over-hyped world of Soa; a thoughtful work with deep insights based on hands-on experiences. This book is a significant milestone in promoting practical disciplines for all Soa practitioners" -John Schmidt, Chairman, Integration Consortium "The book belongs in the hands of every Cio, It Director and It planning manager" -Dr. Richard Ma