Monday, January 12, 2009

Book Review: SOA Cookbook: Design Recipes for Building Better SOA Processes by Michael Harvey

ISBN #: 978-1-847195-48-7

SOA Cookbook may be considered one of the few books in SOA world which talk SOA as Process and further the argument with support of real life SOA platforms from leading vendors, namely IBM, Oracle, BEA and TIBCO.

SOA Cookbook is divided into nine chapters which encompass preliminary as well as complex aspects of SOA in seamless fashion. This book exposes architects and designers various aspects of SOA and BPM like Orchestration, Choreography, Event Handling, Change Management and services and processes, etc. It is advisable to understand basics of BPEL before hand. Chapter 4 onward, BPEL plays major role in understanding of the book.

With its entire good things book leaves some loopholes to be covered, like distinction between BPM and workflow, usage of B2B in inter enterprise integration, difference in EAI and process integration, etc.

This book is must in any software architects’ book collection to keep reminding basics of SOA and its practical implementations.

SOA Cook book is available here.

Book certainly gives lot of pointers for new thoughts.

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