Simon Brown - book tag

Understanding Enterprise SOA

Wed, 08 Mar 2006 21:32:03 GMT

The Register have just published a review of Manning's Understanding Enterprise SOA. Their verdict?

For developers looking to get to grips with the nuts and bolts of SOAP, REST and the, er, rest, this isn't the place to look for details. This is decidedly not a book for those about to cut code. However, if you want to make sense of all of the SOA fuss and how it fits in with the web services you're crafting then this is definitely a good place to start.

I wonder what Sam will think of it.

Service-Oriented Architecture Compass

Tue, 07 Feb 2006 10:39:29 GMT

I've just finished reading Service-Oriented Architecture Compass : Business Value, Planning and Enterprise Roadmap for JavaRanch and the review has been posed here. My summary? Here it is.

Overall, if you're an architect looking at SOA now or planning to in the future, this book will help you clarify your thoughts and steer you through the brave new world of a service oriented architecture. It comes highly recommended.

This is a great book and covers a much broader range of topics than how to build an SOA with [Java|.NET|another technology]. It'll be interesting to see how this book stacks up to the one that Sam is reviewing. If you've read this book, what did you think?

High-Assurance Design

Wed, 18 Jan 2006 20:11:09 GMT

This week, Cliff Berg is doing a promotion of his latest book entitled High-Assurance Design : Architecting Secure and Reliable Enterprise Applications. I'm sure you've encountered this yourself, but on many projects there's often a disconnect between the development team that build the software and the security experts that reside elsewhere in the organisation. I've certainly seen this happen and due to the different skillsets involved, it's hard to get these two groups of people talking the same language. As a result, security is often inadequately implemented and reliability ... well that sometimes doesn't even feature.

If this sounds familiar then Cliff's book might be for you. Stop by the OO, Patterns, UML and Refactoring at the JavaRanch Saloon to see the discussion and have the chance to win a copy.