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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 004.068
EAN num: 9780470141113
ISBN number: 0470141115
Label: Wiley
Manufacturer: Wiley
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 384
Printing Date: February 25, 2008
Publishing house: Wiley
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Answers to your most pressing SOA development questions
How do we start with service modeling? How do we analyze services for better reusability? Who should be involved? How do we create the best architecture model for our organization? This must-read for all enterprise leaders gives you all the answers and tools needed to develop a sound service-oriented architecture in your organization.
Praise for Service-Oriented Modeling
Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
'Michael Bell has done it again with a book that will be remembered as a key facilitator of the global shift to Service-Oriented Architecture. . . . With this book, Michael Bell provides that foundation and more-an essential bible for the subsequent generation of enterprise IT.'
-Eric Pulier, Executive Chairman, SOA Software
'Michael Bell's insightful book provides common language and techniques for business and technology organizations to take advantage of the SOA paradigm. By focusing modeling techniques on the business problem, Bell provides a way for professionals to work throughout the life cycle to create reusable and enduring services.'
-Mike Zbranak, CIO, Chase Card Services
'This book will become an imperative business and technology service-oriented modeling recipe for any manager, architect, modeler, analyst, and developer in today's software development industry.'
-Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI
''Innovative' and 'groundbreaking' are words that best describe Michael Bell's Service-Oriented Modeling. It depicts a true service modeling approach that elegantly closes a clear and critical service modeling gap in the SOA industry. This holistic book ties these concepts together using real-world examples across a service life cycle that transitions services from ideas and concepts into production assets that deliver business value. A must-read for business and technical SOA practitioners.'
-Eric A. Marks, CEO, AgilePath Corporation
'As hot as SOA is today, many business and technology professionals still find it challenging to mind the gap between their disparate methodologies and objectives. Herein Michael Bell speaks clearly to both camps in straightforward language, outlining disciplines each can use to communicate effectively and advance the realization of corporate aims. This book is a bible for all who seek to drive business/technology into the future.'
-Mark Edward Goodrich, Director, Investing Product Management, Reuters Media
'This book takes senior IT architects and systems designers into the depths of modeling for SOA, with a fresh new perspective on tools, terminology, and how to turn the theory into practice. His full life-cycle approach balances process, control, and accountability to align all the participants in the delivery pipeline-clearing the road for successful SOA business solutions.'
-Phil Gilligan, Chief Technology Officer, EBS
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This is an exceptional personal and collective guide for professionals that are lost in the SOA space - just like me. This is especially good for understanding how services can achieve business objectives and IT needs. It is also great for software development and developers that want to know how to analyze and design services for production. In addition, architects will love it. The most impressive aspect of this book is the SOA methodology that it addresses. It looks like this is the only book on the market that tackles the modeling niche in SOA and I think that it will be a cornerstone for all books that will be written about software modeling thereafter. Great read, good ideas, and fun.
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Before I purchased this book I was skeptical about its promise. I'm not a big fan of big title books or publishers' promotions.
But this SOA modeling book is unique. It makes sense. It is logical. It is one of the best software modeling books that I have read. I think that it is big in historical proportions.
A big part of it is a software development methodology. It is kind of a step-by-step guide to developing services. This is a guide for developing software on the application/service level and on the enterprise/service level.
The other sections introduce a modeling language for service oriented architecture. The two authors explain and justify service reuse, service composition, decomposing, usage of SOA intermediaries, usage of ESBs, usage of SOA Gateways, usage of Adapters, and business process modeling.
The book itself includes examples and diagrams for modeling but you can find more examples on different sites on the Internet.
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It would be nice if we all recognize that SOA is not WS*. The problem with almost any book that claims that it is about service oriented architecture - is actually about web services. The industry fails to recognize that web services are really a very small part of SOA. But the amazing issue is that almost any company vastly capitalizes on WS. In other words, companies typically do not invest in strategies. They construct WS, deploy and integrate WS infrastructure, and create a WS environments. But where is their SOA?
This modeling book gives an opportunity, a rare chance to reconsider what actually we are spending our money on. It comes down to a rudimentary selection between the bottom-up approach, where web services are launched to satisfy tactical concerns; or a most strategic, a top-down choice, that advocates reuse, encourages efficiency, and more.
Recently, the development of simpler service technologies confirms this book's assertion that a service is not only WS. Meaning, a service can be any software component that exposes interfaces to its potential consumers. REST for example, also known as Representational State Transfer, devised by Roy Fielding early in the game, enables developers to avoid the convoluted WSDL (a rigid and tight contract) and utilize a looser service contract approach. As a side note, I would volunteer: it would be astute not to bet on WSDL as a "forever technology". Developers always complain about the WSDL method because it is complex, error-prone, and time and resource consuming.
But the most compiling reason why anyone would want to read this book would be the large amount of new approaches to service design and architecture. It is a serious discusion about the "why" and later it proposes the "what". It is about the "thinking" process first, then the "doing" process next. In essence, every architect and developer that follows this book's advice becomes a strategist that can see the big picture, by learning how to avoid the silo mentality that has driven many of our decisions.
I would give it a four star because it is too long and very detail. Almost every book part can be expanded into a separate book.
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I'm an enterprise architect (a former developer), working for one of the largest retail companies in the US. This book is one of the most important books in the software modeling field because it explains and provides examples of a service development lifecycle. This text demonstrates the power of service reuse via hundreds of drawings and charts and it also offers a language for modeling enterprise applications and services.
My company embraced this book as our SOA modeling bible and most of our architects and developers found it valuable to their daily work. With the offered SOA language we are able to describe integration and deployment of services and middleware and we are also able to analyze our business motivation and the technical feasibility.
This book is necessary to my work, and to many of IT professionals, because it discusses the core of SOA development and it proposes service development ways in the following topics:
1) Service Analysis
2) Service Design
3) Service Architecture
4) Service Typing and Profiling
5) Service Conceptualization
6) Service Integration
7) SOA Integration
8) Business Integration
Very recommended
Sandra Bernstein
White Plains, NY
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I typically don't write book reviews, and when I write them, I do so for books that I love and appreciate. However, the amount of undeserved praise this book got is ridiculous. Someone has to say the emperor is naked. I am an enterprise architect, and I am knee deep in my company SOA implementation. The good positive comments this book got, made me buy it in a heartbeat, and I was looking forward its arrival in order to help me understand and solve some of the problems any enterprise architect have when building an SOA system. Unfortunately as Gerturd Stein once said about Oakland, California: "there is no there there". As an enterprise architect I could have learned the same amount of information I learned reading this book by spending the same amount of time watching the cartoon network. Honest. There is nothing here really. The emperor is naked. Don't waste your money. I would get SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design by Nicolai M. Josuttis - although it doesn't explicitly address modeling it is still good enough to get you an overall view of SOA. Or get Enterprise SOA by Dirk Krafzig and others to have a more in depth SOA book. This is not my opinion alone, my other colleague who is much more seasoned architect than myself has the same opinion. You have been warned. Browse it very first before buying it. And if you are going to give me a negative vote on was this review helpful, then please write a comment to show why I am wrong, and what are the tangible things you learned from this book.
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