This book addresses IT professionals interested in the design and realization of modern security-critical applications. It presents a synthesis of various best practices, standards and technologies from model-driven software development, security engineering, and SOAs. As a reader, you will learn how to design and realize SOA security using the framework of an extensible domain architecture for model-driven security. - SOA Book Network - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

Building the Agile Enterprise not only covers many corner stones of enterprise agility, it delivers an integrated view of how agility is enabled by policies and a business awareness supported by technology architecture/design patterns. - SOA Book Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Open Source ESBs in Action shows you how to implement and use two open source ESB implementations: Mule and ServiceMix. - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK - IT RESOURCE NETWORK << MORE >>

This book "SOA Approach to Integration" aims to explain how SOA can actually be used as online application in the real world. There are many theories that you find online but the real SOA is just too hard to find since they are geared for smaller business. - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This book is for business users and process modeling practitioners alike. Part I provides an easily understood introduction to the key components of BPMN (put forward in a user-friendly fashion). Starting off with simple models, it progresses into more sophisticated patterns. Exercises help cement comprehension and understanding (with answers available online). Part II provides a detailed and authoritative reference on the precise semantics and capabilities of the standard. - SOA Books - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

In the forthcoming book The Business Value of Virtual Service-Oriented Grids, the authors provide insights on how virtualization and service orientation work; and how these technology used in conjunction with grid computing. - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Service oriented architectures (SOA) offer a flexible framework for building business applications; mainframes have long been the center of transaction processing and are essential to fully functional SOA services. Bringing mainframe applications and data to SOA environments is challenging for both developers and managers. The Essentials Series: SOA and Mainframe Applications examines key aspects of SOA/mainframe integration projects and provides best practices for addressing common challenges facing application designers, developers, and project managers. - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This book follows up where the authors’ best-selling Service-Oriented Architecture Compass left off, showing how to overcome key obstacles to successful SOA implementation and identifying best practices for all facets of execution—technical, organizational, and human. - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The rapid rise of technology and its adoption into the healthcare field has caused healthcare organizations to collect an accumulation of non-interoperable systems that not only need to work together within the organization, but are also accessed from outside. The burden of integration usually falls on the users of the system, who are forced often to access many different systems to complete one task. The use of a service oriented architecture (SOA), however, can improve the delivery of important information and make the sharing of data across a community of care practical in cost, security, and risk of deployment. SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

The title of this book includes the word ’implementors’. That single word describes the focus of our work here. This book is a treatment of the practical issues an implementor would face when implementing a SOA. - SOA Book Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

This book helps business managers understand that implementing security in a service-oriented architecture environment is a journey and not a project. - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SearchWebServices.com offers SOA Lifecycle All-in-One Guide which covers fundamentals, modeling and design, assembly, deployment and management. SOA Book Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

'SOA for Profit' explains the value and essence of SOA. It makes SOA practical and pragmatic: turning models and vision into an actionable approach to start doing SOA in projects that deliver businessvalue. It emphasizes the importance of governance and architecture and shows that a broad vision of SOA is essential for deriving benefits from it. This book will bridge the gap between business and IT by providing tools and a common language that can be used when starting up a strategic dialogue that is the basis of business driven IT. Written by a team of authors from Sogeti and IBM, 'SOA for Profit' is a real-world book: based on experiences with real companies and real projects. - SOA Book Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

SOA for the Business Developer gives a clear introduction to service-oriented architecture from a technical point of view, covering several open standards that will be the basis of tooling in the coming years. - SOA Book Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

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SOA Using JavaTM Web Services is a hands-on programmer's guide to implementing Web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) using Java EE 5 and Java SE 6. - SOA BOOK NETWORK - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Addison-Wesley Professional (AW) and Prentice Hall Professional (PH) today announced release of new cutting-edge books for the Java community, including new books on JavaServer Faces, JBoss Seam, NetBeans, Java web services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)- SOA Book Network << MORE >>

This book explains how to put the "Web" back into web services with REST, the architectural style that drives the Web. SOA Book Network - THE SOA NETWORK << MORE >>

Getting a Desired Business Return on Your Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Investment - SOA Book Network << MORE >>

New IBM Redbooks: SOA, WMB, WESB, DataPower, WSRR - Free Downloads with registration. - The SOA BOOK NETWORK<< MORE >>

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Wikinomics explains how to prosper in a world where new communications technologies are democratizing the creation of value. Anyone who wants to understand the major forces revolutionizing business today should consider Wikinomics their survival kit. - SOA Book Network << MORE >>

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Explains the advantages of service-orientation for application design and teaching the basics of how to develop SOAs using WCF, the book shows how you can take advantage of built-in features such as service hosting, instance management, asynchronous calls, synchronization, reliability, transaction management, disconnected queued calls and security to build best in class applications. SOA Book Network<< MORE >>

Windows Communication Foundation Unleashed is designed to be the best resource for software developers and architects working with WCF. The book guides readers toward a conceptual understanding of all the facilities of WCF and provides step-by-step guides to applying the technology to practical problems. SOA Book Network<< MORE >>

Infosys' SETLabs Briefings is a peer-reviewed journal, published every quarter, to share strategic and experiential insights on technology management themes. Free Journal Download (Registration Required) from Infosys - 108 pages - SOA Book Network<< MORE >>

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Business Rules Management and Service-Oriented Architecture: A Pattern Language is a fairly technical look at business rules, the technology of a business rules management system and patterns of using them. - SOA Book Network<< MORE >>

This easy-to-use introduction is for beginning to intermediate developers who want to a more conceptual understanding of Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) for building web services on a company network. - SOA Book Network<< MORE >>

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In short, informative chapters, it provides readers with a specific roadmap on how, where, when, and why to embrace an SOA strategy — including “Top Ten Don’ts.” - SOA Book Network<< MORE >>

Despite advances in business automation over the past fifty years, the heart and soul of every organization is still its people--without whom the organization will stop dead in its tracks<< MORE >>

Future Release of book to focus entirely on SOA Governance. << MORE >>

Service-Oriented Architecture: A Planning and Implementation Guide for Business and Technology shows you how to plan, implement, and achieve SOA value through its prescriptive approach, joining the business and strategic perspective to the technical and architectural perspective. << MORE >>

This book is a cultural, rather than technical, guide to Service-Oriented Architectures and Web 2.0 technologies. << MORE >>

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A complete guide to Windows Communicatons Foundation (WCF) from the SOA architecture perspective and shows you why WCF is important to web service development and architecture. Free Download of Chapter - SOA Book Network << MORE >>

One of the key standards accelerating the adoption of SOA is Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (BPEL). << MORE >>

A book that bridges the gap between the communities of network and Grid experts. Free Download of Chapter 1. << MORE >>

This is a must have Book to get a good foundation in Service-Oriented Architecture. This book is biased by any specific vendor's product.<< MORE >>

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