SOA Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl)

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A must-read for SOA practitioners (3/3 people found this helpful)

Great book!
Thomas Erl documents a set of guidelines for effective design decisions to make SOA real.
This book fills the gap between the pubblications that cover SOA in pure conceptual terms and those that deal with the details of web service implementations.
Each chapter cuts through the hype of SOA by giving clear definitions, guidelines, and metrics that link the conceptual, logical and physical aspects of a Service Oriented Architecture.
This series is going to become for SOA what "Design patterns" of the "Gang of Four" has been for Object Oriented design.
I am looking forward to reading the next pubblication: SOA Patterns.

Comprehensive SOA Manual (0/0 people found this helpful)

Thomas Erl's books are of extremely high quality, have masses of information packed within the covers but still remain readable and practical. I've undertaken a complex new SOA initiative and have relied heavily on the information within this book, from first principals through to detailed case studies the book has been my guide and I find it now in a "well-thumbed" state on my shelf. Indispensable.

Very practical guide (2/2 people found this helpful)

I've heard some people describe Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a 'silver bullet' that can solve all IT and business problems. Their less enthusiastic colleagues have described SOA as the IT 'flavour of the month'. Like most things, the truth lies somewhere between the two extremes.

Thomas Erl gives a very practical and understandable explanation of SOA and service design as really the next evolution of good software engineering. There are many SOA buzzwords and concepts that are used rather haphazardly by people in the software industry. Erl explains them all in a precise manner that will really cement your understanding of the underlying design principles whether you have a little or a lot of experience. This is a good book to both read now and use as a reference later.

Excellent and thought-leading book (0/0 people found this helpful)

This is a superb book, which follows on nicely from the two other titles in the Prentice Hall series.

It is interesting to see how Thomas Erl's thoughts and ideas regarding service-oriented computing have progressed and developed with the writing of each new book. This culminates with this book, which is cutting edge in that it covers areas of service-orientation and SOA that I have not seen tackled elsewhere. Thomas has an exceptional understanding of the concepts that he writes about, demonstrated by his lucid and informative style.

Any aspiring or experienced architect should own a copy of this book, and I am now eager to read the four additional books that are planned for 2008 in this series.

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