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The Definitive Guide to Service Engineering
The key to succeeding with service-oriented architecture (SOA) is in comprehending the meaning and significance of its most fundamental building block: the service. It is through an understanding of service design that truly “service-oriented” solution logic can be created in support of achieving the strategic goals associated with SOA and service-oriented computing. Bestselling SOA author Thomas Erl guides you through a comprehensive, insightful, and visually rich exploration of the service-orientation design paradigm, revealing exactly how services should and should not be designed for real-world SOA.
Preface xxv
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 2: Case Study Background 19
Part I: Fundamentals
Chapter 3: Service-Oriented Computing and SOA 25
Chapter 4: Service-Orientation 67
Chapter 5: Understanding Design Principles 103
Part II: Design Principles
Chapter 6: Service Contracts (Standardization and Design) 125
Chapter 7: Service Coupling (Intra-Service and Consumer Dependencies) 163
Chapter 8: Service Abstraction (Information Hiding and Meta Abstraction Types) 211
Chapter 9: Service Reusability (Commercial and Agnostic Design) 253
Chapter 10: Service Autonomy (Processing Boundaries and Control) 293
Chapter 11: Service Statelessness (State Management Deferral and Stateless Design) 325
Chapter 12: Service Discoverability (Interpretability and Communication) 361
Chapter 13: Service Composability (Composition Member Design and Complex Compositions) 387
Part III: Supplemental
Chapter 14: Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation: A Comparison of Principles and Concepts 445
Chapter 15: Supporting Practices 477
Chapter 16: Mapping Service-Orientation Principles to Strategic Goals 497
Appendices
Appendix A: Case Study Conclusion 513
Appendix B: Process Descriptions 517
Appendix C: Principles and Patterns Cross-Reference 529
Additional Resources 533
About the Author 535
About the Photos 537
Index 539
Anonymous
Posted July 18, 2008
This book really goes through from a high level perspective all of the design issues that are commonly faced when designing Services.
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Posted September 6, 2007
This was a very timely book for me to read, since I am currently writing a new course on Testing Service-Oriented Architectures. This book has a very well-defined aspect of SOA, namely the design of services. Erl is very clear that this book does not cover topics he has previouly addressed in his other books on SOA, nor does it cover SOA standards since adoption of these proposed standards is not on the horizon. With that said, I really appreciated the organization and presentation of this book. I have been reading some other titles and found this book very understandable. There are many illustrations that help explain the concepts of service design. The scope of topic coverage is also good. After explaining basic design of SOA, Erl covers topics such as service contracts, service coupling, service abstration, service reusability, service autonomy, service statelessness, and service discovery. The book concludes with a discussion of Object-orientation and service-orientation, supporting practices, and mapping service orientation principles to strategic goals. There is also a case study that is referenced throughout the book to give a real-world application to the concepts explained in the book. I found this book to be very readable, so anyone with an IT background should be able to understand it. Design experience would give an added perspective in understanding this topic, but others in the organization such as testers, business analysts, etc. should be able to profit from this book. This is also a good reference book on service design. I could pick up the book, find a topic and immediately gain understanding of the topic. I like that! One final thing I appreciated about the book was the lack of reference to specific vendors and tools. Not that tools and vendors aren't an important part of the SOA picture, but this vendor-neutral approach makes the book applicable in any environment. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is involved in SOA design, people who may be investigating SOA as a new direction in building and reengineering systems, and people who just want to gain a better understanding of how services are designed. For testers and other software quality professionals, this book can form the basis of designing tests for services. Readability - 5 Applicability - 5 Coverage of topics - 5 Depth of coverage - 5 Credibility - 5 Accuracy - 5 Relevance to software quality - 5 Overall - 5
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The Definitive Guide to Service Engineering
The key to succeeding with service-oriented architecture (SOA) is in comprehending the meaning and significance of its most fundamental building block: the service. It is through an understanding of service design that truly “service-oriented” solution logic can be created in support of achieving the strategic goals associated with SOA and service-oriented computing. Bestselling SOA author Thomas Erl guides you through a comprehensive,...