Publisher's Synopsis
You need more than theory to make SOA work.
You need this practical guide.
The challenge today′s IT professionals face is not how to build a service. It′s how to build a quality service, based on solid design principles and integrated into an architecture that enhances overall business processes. If you are a systems architect or designer, a business analyst, or an IT manager, this book gives you the architecture and design principles along with a methodology that empowers you to meet that challenge. Here are the tools you need to develop services that deliver the benefits of SOA.
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Understand how SOA provides improved flexibility, reduced costs, and competitive advantages
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Examine the overall enterprise context, architectural layers, domain–specific concepts, and essential service characteristics
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Learn how to align SOA with your business, identify services, and create solutions
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Explore business architecture and business process modeling
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See how to design service interfaces and implementations
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Create enterprise services that integrate existing applications and data
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Create enterprise solutions from existing services
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Apply security blueprints for determining and implementing appropriate safeguards
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Utilize successful techniques for flexible servicecomposition and semantic interoperability
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Prepare to effectively manage your projects, utilizing best practices and strategies for SOA management and governance
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Benefit from detailed case study examples
