Book Review: Service Oriented Architecture with Java by Binildas CA, Malhar Barai and Vincenz Caselli. ISBN: 978-1-847193-21-6

Though this book was published in end of Dec 2008, I am able to read now. After reading this book I am not able to understand what the central theme of this book is. This book starts with idea of defining of SOA which it not successful. Then it suddenly jumps to web service and its implementation. Then with all of sudden book starts talking about Data service and finally it compares EAI and SOA.

It seems that book has been compiled as silo for each chapter. None of the chapter seems to be interrelated. There seems to be no connection among chapters.

The only good things about this book are that it compares web service implementation using JAX-WS 2, Axis 2, Spring WS & XFire/CXF and RPC & Document based web services.

Publisher: Packt


Disclaimer: I did not get paid to review this book, and I do not stand to gain anything if you buy the book. I have no relationship with the publisher or the author.

Further reading:
1. A competing book is SOA Using JavaTM Web Services by Mark Hansen
2. The second book is Designing Web Services with the J2EE(TM) 1.4 Platform : JAX-RPC, SOAP, and XML Technologies


One can get more information about book from:

1. Amazon
2. Barnes & Nobel
3. Inform IT

Other Reviews:

1. http://realjavasoa.blogspot.com/2008/09/book-review-service-oriented.html
2. The Server side