SOA for the Business Developer

Product Description Look Inside the Book Author Bio Specifications "A comprehensive yet very approachable introduction to service-oriented architecture. . .[with] numerous examples that illustrate best practices in applying SOA to an enterprise. This book will help you untangle the technologies that underlie SOA--XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL. SCA, SDO, and WS splat--so that you can meaningfully begin your journey."--Grady Booch, IBM Fellow Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your company's development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called services, which allow for a quick response to change. This book tells the SOA story in a simple, straightforward manner that will help you understand not only the SOA technology but also the technology that underlies SOA: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, SCA, and SDO. And through it all, the authors provide business examples and illustrations, giving a