Book Review: Open Source SOA by Jeff Davis

Book Review: Open Source SOA by Jeff Davis: Publisher- Manning: ISBN- 13: 978-1-933988-54-2

Open Source SOA is written as collection of short tutorials on various tools which can fit into SOA.

Open Source SOA is essentially divided into two parts – part one, in which author talk about SOA and its philosophy. Part two covers some of the open source tools which are talked about in part one. Author has tried to cover too many tools in one short book which is equal to denied justice to each tool.

This book is good to start with on the tools discussed in this book.

This book covers

1. Service Component Architecture
2. Apache Tuscany
3. jBoss jBPM
4. Esper
5. Apache Synapse
6. jBoss Drool (jRule)

Jeff and Manning are maintaining books web presence at http://www.manning.com/davis, I hope he will take care of the different views and uncharted topics in future.

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:

One can get more information about book and related topics from:

1. Book’s web presence http://www.manning.com/davis/
2. Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Open-Source-Soa-Jeff-Davis/dp/1933988541
3. http://www.keith-chapman.org/2009/03/open-source-soa-platform-everything-you.html
4. Sun’s Open Source SOA eBook: http://www.propelmg.com/sunfed/soa_ebook/inside.php
5. http://soa.dzone.com/articles/wso2-open-source-soa-cloud