<!--[if gte mso 9]> <xml> 800x600 </xml> <![endif]--> <p style="margin:0px;"> <b>The Concise Introduction to Modern SOA: High-Value Approaches, Innovative Technologies, Proven Use Cases</b> </p> <p style="margin:0px;"> <b> <br> </b> </p> <p style="margin:0px;">After a decade of innovation in technology and practice, SOA is now a mainstream computing discipline, capable of transforming IT enterprises and optimizing business automation. In <i>Next Generation SOA</i>, top-selling SOA author Thomas Erl and a team of experts present a plain-English tour of SOA, service-orientation, and the key service technologies being used to build sophisticated contemporary service-oriented solutions.</p> <p style="margin:0px;"> </p> <p style="margin:0px;">The starting point for today’s IT professionals, this concise guide distills the increasingly growing and diverse field of service-oriented architecture and the real-world practice of building powerful service-driven systems. Accessible and jargon-free, this book intentionally avoids technical details to provide easy-to-understand, introductory coverage of the following topics: </p> <ul> <li>Services, service-orientation, and service-oriented computing: what they are and how they have evolved</li> <li>How SOA and service-orientation change businesses and transform IT culture, priorities, and technology decisions</li> <li>How services are defined and composed to solve a wide spectrum of business problems</li> <li>Deep implications of the service-orientation paradigm--illuminated through an annotation of the classic SOA Manifesto</li> <li>Traditional and contemporary service technologies and architectures</li> <li>How clouds and virtualization support the scalability and reliability of services-based solutions</li> <li>SOA-based industry models, from enterprise service to global trader</li> <li>A detailed case study: how real enterprises bring together contemporary SOA practices, models, and technologies</li> </ul> <p style="margin:0px;"> <i>Next Generation SOA </i>will be indispensable to wide audiences of business decision makers and technologists--including architects, developers, managers, executives, strategists, consultants, and researchers.</p> <!--[if gte mso 9]> <xml> Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 </xml> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> <xml> </xml> <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]> <![endif]-->