Product Description
Large IT organizations increasingly face the challenge of integrating various web services, applications, and other technologies into a single network. The solution to finding a meaningful large-scale architecture that is capable of spanning a global enterprise appears to have been met in ESB, or Enterprise Service Bus. Rather than conform to the hub-and-spoke architecture of traditional enterprise application integration products, ESB provides a highly distributed approach to integration, with unique capabilities that allow individual departments or business units to build out their integration projects in incremental, digestible chunks, maintaining their own local control and autonomy, while still being able to connect together each integration project into a larger, more global integration fabric, or grid.
Enterprise Service Bus offers a thorough introduction and overview for systems architects, system integrators, technical project leads, and CTO/CIO level managers who need to understand, assess, and evaluate this new approach. Written by Dave Chappell, one of the best known and authoritative voices in the field of enterprise middleware and standards-based integration, the book drills down into the technical details of the major components of ESB, showing how it can utilize an event-driven SOA to bring a variety of enterprise applications and services built on J2EE, .NET, C/C++, and other legacy environments into the reach of the everyday IT professional.
With Enterprise Service Bus, readers become well versed in the problems faced by IT organizations today, gaining an understanding of how current technology deficiencies impact business issues. Through the study of real-world use cases and integration patterns drawn from several industries using ESB–including Telcos, financial services, retail, B2B exchanges, energy, manufacturing, and more–the book clearly and coherently outlines the benefits of moving toward this integration strategy. The book also compares ESB to other integration architectures, contrasting their inherent strengths and limitations.
If you are charged with understanding, assessing, or implementing an integration architecture, Enterprise Service Bus will provide the straightforward information you need to draw your conclusions about this important disruptive technology.
This is just a big broucher about ESB. It states all the benefits about the ESB but it never gets into the details of how to implement an ESB.
This book will become helpful when the author decides to add code examples of services implemented with ESB.
The good side of the book is that it is written by a seasoned veteran in async messaging that clearly understand the field and where the specs are going. He makes a good introduction to the whole paraphernalia of messaging and a good chapter about caching strategies.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
This book makes a lot of sense when you know how the SONIC ESB works. Whatever is being discussed here is a reflection of the product. So I think the product came first and then this book. However; still good reading material and intro to the goals and the architecture of ESBs.
Amazon User Rating: 4 / 5
This book is the definitive guide on ESB – excellent coverage on fundamentals, patterns and implementation models. I had read quite a few books around SOA and Web Services, some good, others not so good… but this book really stands out stressing the importance of ESB. The concepts were covered in sufficient details for any aspiring SOA developer. It all gives you a very good idea what you would need to consider when deciding to implement a real-world SOA solution in your organization.
Highly Recommended!
Amazon User Rating: 5 / 5
Perhaps a better title for the book would have been ESB for the J2EE technology stack. Although the author positions the book as a technology agnostic exploration of the technolgy, his lack of understanding of the Microsoft technology stack makes it impossible for him to pull this off. His obsession with JMS shows through in every chapter and the if he made a convincing argument about why JMS compatability is so useful in an ESB in a Microsoft based platform – I failed to spot it. Also his cavalier dismissal of Biztalk ( the latest version of which incidentally does have all the features of ESB he identifies ) is also quite surprising. As an architect who is working in a non java centric ,microsoft based environment, the book comes across as primarily written for people working on the Java stack. He does pay lip service to how the ESB in his view will work with any technology but the arguments fail to impress and appear incomplete. Given the fact that the essence of SOA and ESB in my view is interoperability, his espousal of JMS,a java specific mechanism, as a key standard ESBs must implement is strange to say the least.
Having said all that, I did think the book is extremely well written and the concepts outlines nicely complement Hohpe’s book on intergation patterns in my view. He should perhaps have looked a bit more at that book to see how to truly write a technology independent book.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5
I wanted a book that gave me an clear understanding of what an ESB is, and this book did exactly that. While the figures were illustrative, I felt that more reading material could have been added. The two chapters that were useful were Chapters 1 and 11.
But like I said in my first sentence, it gave me an high level understanding of an ESB.
Amazon User Rating: 3 / 5