Last week I read a book covering SOA (Service Oriented Architecture). I thought I'd share some thoughts with you. "
Understanding Enterprise SOA" (Manning Publications), is written by Eric Pulier en Hugh Taylor. The target audience for this book are managers and technical architects.
Working with web services,
SOAP and mashups with
Google maps or
flickr, I was anxious to learn more about the architectural part of setting up an SOA in applications. Using webservices is one thing, but designing them in an application environment (which usually contains more than one service component) is another. Maybe because of my technical background I was hoping to get some more insight in how you design SOA applications from a functional analyst and technical architect point of view, but as it turns out, the book is more useful for managers than for technical guys.