Book review: SOA Cookbook: Master SOA process architecture, modeling, and simulation in BPEL, TIBCO’s BusinessWorks, and BEA’s Weblogic Integration by Michael Havis
I recently finished reading this interesting book. It is intended to be a practical book like the others from Packt Publishing, but don’t be mistaken when I say practical. This book cuts the hype and rather than the regular architect/business compliant talk that is not really worth much for the regular developer, focuses on different approaches on developing SOA. On the other hand despite the name, this is not a tutorial book either. It rather fills in the gap between what the everyday developer needs to just get the job done and what the fancy architect preaches. It gives you best practices and eye opener approaches to different problems.
The book takes touches on many subjects and leverages different tools to demonstrate these. At times, it also deviates from what the tools offer and sets on to suggest custom solutions. The examples in the book are sufficiently complex to demonstrate subjects unlike many out there with trivial scenarios which do not in any way relate to what waits out there in the wild. I also particularly like the Process centric approach the writer takes.
I would definitely suggest this book to any serious developer working on integration. There are many good ideas to take from this book, although after reading it you’ll probably end up needing to dig deeper into these ideas.
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