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Web services are leading to the use of more packaged software either as an internal service or an external service available over the Internet. These services, which will be connected together to create the information technology systems of the future, will require less custom software in our organizations and more creativity in the connections between the services. This book begins with a high-level example of how an average person in an organization might interact with a service-oriented architecture. As the book progresses, more technical detail is added in a “peeling of the onion” approach. The leadership opportunities within these developing service-oriented architectures are also explained. At the end of the book there is a compendium or “pocket library” for software technology related to service-oriented architectures.
?? Only web services book to cover both data management and software engineering perspectives, excellent resource for ALL members of IT teams
?? Jargon free, highly illustrated, with introduction that anyone can read that then leads into increasing technical detail
?? Provides a set of leadership principles and suggested application for using this technology.
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This book is exceptionally well done! I’ve written 3 books on Web development and I’ve written a number of articles on Web Services. I’ve also done a number of presentations on the subject at users groups around the country. I thought I understood the power and future of Web services, but Barry helped me understand the service-oriented architecture and how this what I really saw the promise in. Barry did an incredible job of bringing this topic all together. I found the book tremendously inspiring too! You won’t be disappointed by the content in this book. You’ll likely come away with 100 ideas too! Great job Barry!!! I can’t wait to read your next book!!!
Brad
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
I found this book to be just right. It explains the value of SOA and the basic architecture. It skirts the technical stuff, which is fine for this kind of book. I think it’s great for a manager or a consultant pitching SOA.
I give it 4 instead of 5 due to the overuse of force field analysis and the lack of a point in the later chapters. More than half of the book is extremely useful. It would get 5 if they chopped out the useless stuff and the excessive use of force field analysis.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
This book is written but Cutter Consortium consultant Dave Barry and is packed with practical guidance on strategies around getting management to understand where they should be headed. This book should be purchased immediately by any manager undertaking a large web services project.
Along with this book, I would also recommend the purchase of another book by the same publisher named Java Web Services Architecture for the development staff.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Barry gives a readable, high level explanation of Web Services and their latest incarnation – SOA. He contrasts the latter with the pre-existing EDI, which might use CORBA or DCOM. SOA is presented as much easier to make modular, without any strange binary formats. The virtues of using XML as the underlying data exchange format should be apparent to the reader.
He suggests how a company might want to redesign its data functionality so as to use an SOA approach. This can be confined entirely within the company’s machines, or perhaps to offer Web Services to outsiders.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
This is the perfect book for Managers. I also purchased the perfect book for developers and architects. It is entitled: java web services architecture. They both should be purchased together.
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5