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(More customer reviews)Brown's book is a sign that the field of SOA is maturing. The book's heft is because it is a collection of the most significant design patterns in SOA. The early chapters give an overview of SOA and what Brown calls Total Architecture Synthesis. A wholistic view of people, processes, information and (hardware) systems.
But it may be best to treat the book from a top-down classification of patterns. Where the top level has the sections Collaboration, Communication, Data, etc. There is an abundance of patterns. Which in itself might address some of you sceptical about the entire field of SOA. Sure, it has its buzzwords and jargon. However, the set of patterns and their subgroupings might make SOA more applicable to your situation, rather than just having nice high level statements of vague generality.
Many readers might [should] already be familiar with patterns, if you come from a programming background. This will indeed help when reading the book, for several terms and concepts will be familiar. Note however a key qualitative difference between the book's patterns and those of [eg] Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series). Fowler's patterns refer to code that often all sits in one machine, or perhaps in a group of machines co-located in the same server room. So bandwidth and latency are not issues. With SOA, these often arise as vital considerations. SOA refers to spatially distributed systems; maybe over large distances.

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Putting Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) into Practice"This book is a must-have for enterprise architects implementing SOA. Through practical examples, it explains the relationship between business requirements, business process design, and service architecture. By tying the SOA implementation directly to business value, it reveals the key to ongoing success and funding." —Maja Tibbling, Lead Enterprise Architect, Con-way, Inc."While there are other books on architecture and the implementation of ESB, SOA, and related technologies, this new book uniquely captures the knowledge and experience of the real world. It shows how you can transform requirements and vision into solid, repeatable, and value-added architectures. I heartily recommend it." —Mark Wencek, SVP, Consulting Services & Alliances, Ultimo Software Solutions, Inc.In his first book, Succeeding with SOA, Paul Brown explained that if enterprise goals are to be met, business processes and information systems must be designed together as parts of a total architecture. In this second book, Implementing SOA, he guides you through the entire process of designing and developing a successful total architecture at both project and enterprise levels. Drawing on his own extensive experience, he provides best practices for creating services and leveraging them to create robust and flexible SOA solutions. Coverage includes
Evolving the enterprise architecture towards an SOA while continuing to deliver business value on a project-by-project basis
Understanding the fundamentals of SOA and distributed systems, the dominant architectural issues, and the design patterns for addressing them
Understanding the distinct roles of project and enterprise architects and how they must collaborate to create an SOA
Understanding the need for a comprehensive total architecture approach that encompasses business processes, people, systems, data, and infrastructure
Understanding the strategies and tradeoffs for implementing robust, secure, high-performance, and high-availability solutions
Understanding how to incorporate business process management (BPM) and business process monitoring into the enterprise architecture
Whether you're defining an enterprise architecture or delivering individual SOA projects, this book will give you the practical advice you need to get the job done.

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