Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies - Softcover

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Michael Rosen is chief scientist for Wilton Consulting Group, editorial director of the SOA Institute, Director of Architecture for Cutter Consortium, and a respected industry spokesperson.

Boris Lublinsky is lead architect at Navteq, where he is responsible for SOA and BPM implementations.

Kevin T. Smith is a technical director at McDonald Bradley, Inc., where he builds highly secure and data-driven SOA solutions for the U.S. government.

Marc J. Balcer founded ModelCompilers.com, a provider of tools and services for model-based development.

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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 advantages

• Examine the overall enterprise context, architectural layers, domain-specific concepts, and essential service characteristics

• Learn how to align SOA with your business, identify services, and create solutions

• Explore business architecture and business process modeling

• See how to design service interfaces and implementations

• Create enterprise services that integrate existing applications and data

• Create enterprise solutions from existing services

• Apply security blueprints for determining and implementing appropriate safeguards

• Utilize successful techniques for flexible servicecomposition and semantic interoperability

• Prepare to effectively manage your projects, utilizing best practices and strategies for SOA management and governance

• Benefit from detailed case study examples