Book Review: Service - Oriented Modeling by Michael Bell

Book Review: Service - Oriented Modeling by Michael Bell: Publisher- John Wiley: ISBN- 13: 978-0-470-14111-3

Though book is published in 2008, I got the chance to real this book now. Before reading the book I had impression that this book is about SOA modeling and will be helpful in my modeling task. But its reading was quite disappointing. Book tryies to cover too many things and looses the context very frequently.

Book is highly theoretical and targeted to academics. It virtually holds no practical advice to practitioners.

The modeling part of SOA starts from chapter 8 onwards but again author looses the track very frequently.

If Michael likes to develop a language for SOA modeling he should approach some industry consortium or community so wider acceptability can be developed.

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: Related information at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_modeling and at IBM http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-soa-design1

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1. Amazon http://www.amazon.com/Service-Oriented-Modeling-SOA-Analysis-Architecture/dp/0470141115
2. Publisher -- Wiley http://as.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470141115.html
3. Wikkipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service-oriented_modeling