Soa Principles Of Service Design eBook

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"This book could be described as an encyclopedia of service design-Erl leaves nothing to chance. Indispensable."

-Steve Birkel, Chief IT Technical Architect, Intel Corp.

"An absolute pleasure to read…the best SOA book I’ve read.

A book I would recommend to all of my colleagues; it provides much insight to the topics often overlooked by most books in this genre…the visuals were fantastic."

-Brandon Bohling, SOA Architecture and Strategy, Intel Corporation

"This book is a milestone in SOA literature. For the first time we are provided with a practical guide on defining service characteristics and service design principles for SOA from a vendor-agnostic viewpoint. It’s a great reference for SOA discovery, adoptions, and implementation projects."

-Canyang Kevin Liu, Principal Enterprise Architect, SAP Americas, Inc.

"I liked this book. It contains extremely important material for those who need to design services."

-Farzin Yashar, IBM SOA Advanced Technologies

"This book does a great job laying out benefits, key ideas and design principles behind successfully adopting service-oriented computing. At the same time, the book openly addresses challenges, risks and trade-offs that are in the way of adopting SOA in the real-world today. It moves away from ivory-tower views of service orientation, but still lays out a strong vision for SOA and outlines the changes necessary to realize the full potential."

-Christoph Schittko, Senior Architect, Microsoft

"I recommend this book to any SOA practitioner who wishes to empower themselves in making service design real…gives readers the 360º view into service design [and] gives SOA practitioners the depth and understanding needed into the principles of SOA to assist in the design of a mature and successful SOA program."

-Stephen G. Bennett, Americas SOA Practice Lead, BEA Systems

"SOA projects are most successful when they are based on a solid technical foundation. Well accepted and established design principles are part of this foundation. This book takes a very structured approach at defining the core design principles for SOA, thus allowing the reader to immediately applying them to a project. Each principle is formally introduced and explained, and examples are given for how to apply it to a real design problem. A ‘must read’ for any architect, designer or developer of service oriented solutions".

-Andre Tost, Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Software Group

"There are few references for SOA that give you the nuts and bolts and this on...