Java SOA Cookbook at Dominant Systems Book Store

Java SOA Cookbook offers practical solutions and advice to programmers charged with implementing a service-oriented architecture (SOA) in their organization. Instead of providing another conceptual, high-level view of SOA, this cookbook shows you how to make SOA work. It's full of Java and XML code you can insert directly into your applications and recipes you can apply right away.

The book focuses primarily on the use of free and open source Java Web Services technologies -- including Java SE 6 and Java EE 5 tools -- but you'll find tips for using commercially available tools as well.

Java SOA Cookbook will help you:

Construct XML vocabularies and data models appropriate to SOA applications
Build real-world web services using the latest Java standards, including JAX-WS 2.1 and JAX-RS 1.0 for RESTful web services
Integrate applications from popular service providers using SOAP, POX, and Atom
Create service orchestrations with complete coverage of the WS-BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) 2.0 standard
Improve the reliability of SOAP-based services with specifications such as WS-Reliable Messaging
Deal with governance, interoperability, and quality-of-service issues

The recipes in Java SOA Cookbook will equip you with the knowledge you need to approach SOA as an integration challenge, not an obstacle.

Customer Reviews & Comments
This book is intended for experienced Java developers and architects who need to know the details of SOA development with the Java programming language and associated technologies. It is not a very good big picture book on SOA. For that I recommend Service Oriented Architecture with Java: Using SOA and web services to build powerful Java applications, which was published in 2008, so it is still current in its approach. To get the most out of this book the author assumes specifically that you are familiar with Java SE 5 or 6, servlets, JSP Enterprise Edition containers such as Glassfish, Enterprise JavaBeans, as well as JDBC, JNDI, EARs and WARs, and XML. In short, the author assumes that you have been involved in enterprise development using the Java technologies and APIs mentioned. If you have used web services but not recently, this book does help you get your feet back in the water. It is those that are complete novices that will get truly lost. Parts of the book address strategy, design, and patterns, but largely it is a book that stays at a low level. A really good book on SOA design patterns is SOA Design Patterns (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl). The author also talks about SOA and Ruby, Python, and .NET. However, it is not necessary to have a background in these languages since Java is specifically the language and environment that the author addresses. Currently, the table of contents is not included in the product description, so I include that next: Part 1: SOA Fundamentals Chapter 1. Introduction to SOA Chapter 2. XML Schema and the SOA Data Model Chapter 3. Working with XML and Java Part 2: Web Services Chapter 4. Getting Started Chapter 5. Web Services with SAAJ Chapter 6. Creating Web Service Applications with JAX-WS Chapter 7. Providing SOAP-Based Web Services Chapter 8. RESTful Web Services Part 3: Business Processes Chapter 9. Service Orchestrations with BPEL Chapter 10. Advanced Orchestrations with BPEL Chapter 11. SOA Governance Part 4: Interoperability and Quality of Service Chapter 12. Web Service Interoperability Chapter 13. Quality of Service Chapter 14. Enterprise Service Bus I would say that between this book and the other two that I mentioned, you should have a pretty good starting point on SOA/Java reading material.

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