Service Oriented Architecture with Java: Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications - Softcover

This book is an overview of how to implement SOA using Java with the help of real-world examples. It briefly introduces the theory behind SOA and all the case studies are described from scratch. This book is for Java programmers or architects who are interested in implementing SOA concepts in their applications. Readers should be familiar with Java Enterprise concepts

Binildas C. A. provides Technical Architecture consultancy for IT solutions. He has over 13 years of IT experience, mostly in Microsoft and Sun technologies. Distributed Computing and Service Oriented Integration are his main stream skills, with extensive hands-on experience in Java and C#.NET programming. Binil holds a BTech. degree in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Trivandrum (www.cet.ac.in) and an MBA in Systems Management, from Institute of Management, Kerala (www.imk.ac.in). A well-known and a highly sought-after thought leader, Binil has designed and built many highly scalable middle-tier and integration solutions for several top-notch clients including Fortune 500 companies. He has been previously employed by multiple IT consulting firms including IBS Software Services (www.ibsplc.com) and Tata Consultancy Services (www.tcs.com) and currently works for Infosys Technologies (www.infosys.com) as a Principal Architect where he heads the J2EE Architects group servicing Communications Service Provider clients. Binil is a Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP), Developer (SCJD), Business Component Developer (SCBCD) and Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) and Open Group (TOGAF8) Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner. He is also a Licensed Zapthink Architect (LZA) in SOA. Besides Technical Architecture Binil also practices Enterprise Architecture. When not in software, Binil spends time with wife Sowmya & daughter Ann in 'God's Own Country', Kerala (www. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala). Binil does long distance running and is a national medalist in Power Lifting. You may contact Binil at biniljava@yahoo.co.in or binil_christudas@infosys.com. Malhar Barai is a Sr. System Analyst with Satyam Computer Services Ltd, one of India's leading IT services organization. He has more than 7 years of experience in the industry working for leading organizations across India. Malhar has interest in service oriented technologies and application integration tools while he has worked on the EAI toolset of webMethods and Cast Iron, Java technologies. You can catch him on various forums that deal with SOA and some of the webMethods forums or you can read about him on his blog malharbarai.blogspot. Vincenzo Caselli graduated in Electrical Engineering in 1991 at the University of Bologna. Since 1996 he has been working as an independent consultant and Java trainer for several Italian software houses. He began working as a developer in Delphi and other visual IDEs with AS/400-based companies. Soon he shifted his focus to Java and began to propose Swing client/server multi-layered solutions to his customers. He also worked in the web development area with several frameworks (Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JSF, and GWT) in different fields (banking, manufacturing, healthcare, and e-learning). Recently he collaborated with IBM in projects based on Eclipse RCP and SOA. He is interested in every consultancy and training activity aimed to improve the productivity and quality of the software development process, possibly by using open-source products.