Implementing Soa

In his first book, Succeeding with SOA, Paul Brown explained that if enterprise goals are to be met, business processes and information systems must be designed... » 

In his first book, Succeeding with SOA, Paul Brown explained that if enterprise goals are to be met, business processes and information systems must be designed together as parts of a total architecture. In this second book, Implementing SOA, he guides you through the entire process of designing and developing a successful total architecture at both project and enterprise levels. Drawing on his own extensive experience, he provides best practices for creating services and leveraging them to create robust and flexible SOA solutions.

Coverage includesEvolving the enterprise architecture towards an SOA while continuing to deliver business value on a project-by-project basisUnderstanding the fundamentals of SOA and distributed systems, the dominant architectural issues, and the design patterns for addressing themUnderstanding the distinct roles of project and enterprise architects and how they must collaborate to create an SOAUnderstanding the need for a comprehensive total architecture approach that encompasses business processes, people, systems, data, and infrastructureUnderstanding the strategies and tradeoffs for implementing robust, secure, high-performance, and high-availability solutionsUnderstanding how to incorporate business process management (BPM) and business process monitoring into the enterprise architectureWhether you're defining an enterprise architecture or delivering individual SOA projects, this book will give you the practical advice you need to get the job done. «