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Books about SOA topics
12.29.2011 | 0 Comments
From my experience as a consultant for SOA and BPM solutions, I can outline two books. One is very usefull and one is very useless.
Securing Web Services with WS-Security: Demystifying WS-Security, WS-Policy, SAML, XML Signature, and XML Encryption by Rothy Rosenberg and David Remy
For a technical IT book, this one is very enjoyable to read. Everything is easy to understand and with great examples. It starts with the basics of security develops from chapter to chapter to more specific topics. This is a nice book for the couch and you have learned a lot after finishing this book.
SOA: Entwurfsprinzipien für service-orientierte Architektur by Thomas Erl
From the title, this book seems to be a good introduction to SOA. But once I started reading, I realized that it is far too theoretical and that the author seems to know SOA only from theory. This book is like a university lecture from a professor that has never applied his knowledge. When I look at the Wikepedia page of Thomas Erl, this really seems to be the case.
A customer of mine read this book as well and he had great expectations and dreams about the SOA Architecture in his company. By now, we both know that some concepts are not useful or over-designed.