Enterprise SOA
Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
Published on 25. November 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
408 pages
978-0-13-146575-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book spells out guidelines and strategies for successfully using ServiceOriented Architecture (SOA) in large-scale projects. SOA represents the latestparadigm in distributed computing and middleware development. However,SOA is not a revolution, but rather an evolution in software architecture. SOAis a collection of best practice software construction principles accompanied byproven methodologies in development and project management.This book is unique in that it offers a pragmatic approach to the topic. Theauthors borrow from their more than forty years of collective enterpriseexperience, and offer a frank discussion of the challenges associated withadopting SOA. They also help readers ensure that their organization does notbecome too closely tied to a specific technology. The result is a detailedintroduction to the topic and an architectural blueprint for implementing SOA.
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Persons
About the AuthorsDirk Krafzig
Dirk has been dealing with the challenges of enterprise IT and distributed software architectures throughout his entire working life. He devoted himself to SOA in 2001 when he joined Shinka Technologies, a start-up company and platform vendor in the early days of XML-based Web services. Since then, Dirk has acquired a rich set of real world experience with this upcoming new paradigm both from the view point of a platform vendor and from the perspective of software projects in different industry verticals.
Writing this book was an issue of personal concern to him as it provided the opportunity to share his experiences and many insights into the nature of enterprise IT with his readers.
Today, Dirk is designing enterprise applications and managing projects, applying the guiding principles outlined in this book. Dirk has a Ph.D. in Natural Science and an MSc in Computer Science. He lives in Duesseldorf, Germany, and is 39 years old, married, and the father of two children.
Karl BankeSoftware architecture has been with Karl since he programmed his first TRON-like game on the then state-of-the art ZX81 in the early 1980s. After graduating as a Master of Physics, he gained his commercial experience in various consulting assignments, mostly in the financial and telecommunications sector.
He moved through stages of consultant, technical lead, software architect, and project manager using a variety of object-oriented technologies, programming languages, and distributed computing environments. Soon realizing that he was too constrained as an employee in doing what he thought necessary in software development, he co-founded the company iternum in 2000, where he currently acts as a principal consultant and general manager.
Karl permanently lives in Mainz, Germany when not temporarily relocated by a current project.
Dirk SlamaHaving spent the last ten years at the forefront of distributed computing technology, Dirk has developed an in-depth understanding of enterprise software architectures and their application in a variety of industry verticals. Dirk was a senior consultant with IONA Technologies, working with Fortune 500 customers in Europe, America, and Asia on large-scale software integration projects. After this, Dirk set up his own company, Shinka Technologies, which successfully developed one of the first XML-based Web services middleware products, starting as early as 1999.
Dirk holds an MSc in computer sciences from TU-Berlin and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne. He is a co-author of Enterprise CORBA (Prentice Hall, 1999), the leading book on CORBA-based system architectures. Dirk is currently working as a solution architect for Computer Sciences Corporation in Zurich, Switzerland.
Contact: authors@enterprise-soa.com
Dirk has been dealing with the challenges of enterprise IT and distributed software architectures throughout his entire working life. He devoted himself to SOA in 2001 when he joined Shinka Technologies, a start-up company and platform vendor in the early days of XML-based Web services. Since then, Dirk has acquired a rich set of real world experience with this upcoming new paradigm both from the view point of a platform vendor and from the perspective of software projects in different industry verticals.
Writing this book was an issue of personal concern to him as it provided the opportunity to share his experiences and many insights into the nature of enterprise IT with his readers.
Today, Dirk is designing enterprise applications and managing projects, applying the guiding principles outlined in this book. Dirk has a Ph.D. in Natural Science and an MSc in Computer Science. He lives in Duesseldorf, Germany, and is 39 years old, married, and the father of two children.
Karl BankeSoftware architecture has been with Karl since he programmed his first TRON-like game on the then state-of-the art ZX81 in the early 1980s. After graduating as a Master of Physics, he gained his commercial experience in various consulting assignments, mostly in the financial and telecommunications sector.
He moved through stages of consultant, technical lead, software architect, and project manager using a variety of object-oriented technologies, programming languages, and distributed computing environments. Soon realizing that he was too constrained as an employee in doing what he thought necessary in software development, he co-founded the company iternum in 2000, where he currently acts as a principal consultant and general manager.
Karl permanently lives in Mainz, Germany when not temporarily relocated by a current project.
Dirk SlamaHaving spent the last ten years at the forefront of distributed computing technology, Dirk has developed an in-depth understanding of enterprise software architectures and their application in a variety of industry verticals. Dirk was a senior consultant with IONA Technologies, working with Fortune 500 customers in Europe, America, and Asia on large-scale software integration projects. After this, Dirk set up his own company, Shinka Technologies, which successfully developed one of the first XML-based Web services middleware products, starting as early as 1999.
Dirk holds an MSc in computer sciences from TU-Berlin and an MBA from IMD in Lausanne. He is a co-author of Enterprise CORBA (Prentice Hall, 1999), the leading book on CORBA-based system architectures. Dirk is currently working as a solution architect for Computer Sciences Corporation in Zurich, Switzerland.
Contact: authors@enterprise-soa.com
Content
Foreword.
Reader's Guide.
Chapter 1 - An Enterprise IT Renovation Roadmap.
1.1 - Agony Versus Agility.
1.2 - Enterprise Software Is a Different Animal.
1.3 - The Importance of Enterprise Software Architectures.
1.4 - The Requirements for an Enterprise Software Architecture.
1.5 - The Relation of Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Standards.
1.6 - Organizational Aspects.
1.7 - Lifelong Learning.
1.8 - The Enterprise IT Renovation Roadmap.
Chapter 2 - Evolution of the Service Concept.
2.1 - Milestones of Enterprise Computing.
2.2 - Programming Paradigms
2.3 - Distributed Computing
2.4 - Business Computing
2.5 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 3 - Inventory of Distributed Computing Concepts.
3.1 - Heterogeneity of Communication Mechanisms
3.2 - Communication Middleware
3.3 - Synchrony
3.4 - Interface Versus Payload Semantics
3.5 - Tight Versus Loose Coupling
3.6 - Conclusion
References
URLs
PART I - ARCHITECTURAL ROADMAP.
Chapter 4 - Service-Oriented Architectures.
4.1 - What Is a Software Architecture?
4.2 - What Is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
4.3 - Elements of a Service-Oriented Architecture
4.4 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 5 - Services as Building Blocks.
5.1 - Service Types
5.2 - Layers on the Enterprise Level
5.3 - Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 - The Architectural Roadmap.
6.1 - The Architectural Roadmap
6.2 - Fundamental SOA
6.3 - Networked SOA
6.4 - Process-Enabled SOA
6.5 - Conclusion
Chapter 7 - SOA and Business Process Management.
7.1 - Introduction to BPM
7.2 - BPM and the Process-Enabled SOA
7.3 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 8 - Managing Process Integrity.
8.1 - Data Versus Process Integrity
8.2 - Technical Concepts and Solutions
8.3 - Recommendations for SOA Architects
8.4 - Conclusion
References
Chapter 9 - Infrastructure of the Service Bus.
9.1 - Software Buses and the Service Bus
9.2 - Logging and Auditing
9.3 - Availability and Scalability
9.4 - Securing SOAs
9.5 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 10 - SOA in Action.
10.1 - Building Web Applications
10.2 - Enterprise Application Integration
10.3 - Business-to-Business
10.4 - Fat Clients
10.5 - Designing for Small Devices
10.6 - Multi-Channel Applications
10.7 - Conclusion
References
URLs
PART II - ORGANIZATIONAL ROADMAP.
Chapter 11 - Motivation and Benefits.
11.1 - The Enterprise Perspective
11.2 - The Personal Perspective
11.3 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 12 - The Organizational SOA Roadmap.
12.1 - Stakeholders and Potential Conflicts of Interest
12.2 - The Organizational SOA Roadmap
12.3 - Four Pillars for Success
12.4 - An Ideal World
12.5 - The Real World-Organization-Wide Standards
12.6 - Recommendations for the SOA Protagonist
12.7 - Conclusion
URLs
Chapter 13 - SOA-Driven Project Management.
13.1 - Established Project Management Methodologies
13.2 - SOA-Driven Project Management
13.3 - Configuration Management
13.4 - Testing
13.5 - Conclusion
References
URLs
PART III - REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.
Chapter 14 - Deutsche Post AG Case Study.
14.1 - Project Scope
14.2 - Implementation
14.3 - Technology
14.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
References
Links
Chapter 15 - Winterthur Case Study.
15.1 - Project Scope
15.2 - Implementation
15.3 - Technology
15.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
Chapter 16 - Credit Suisse Case Study.
16.1 - Project Scope
16.2 - Implementation
16.3 - Technology
16.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
References
Chapter 17 - Halifax Bank Of Scotland: IF.com.
17.1 - Project Scope
17.2 - Implementation
17.3 - Technology
17.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
URLs
Index.
Reader's Guide.
Chapter 1 - An Enterprise IT Renovation Roadmap.
1.1 - Agony Versus Agility.
1.2 - Enterprise Software Is a Different Animal.
1.3 - The Importance of Enterprise Software Architectures.
1.4 - The Requirements for an Enterprise Software Architecture.
1.5 - The Relation of Enterprise Architecture and Enterprise Standards.
1.6 - Organizational Aspects.
1.7 - Lifelong Learning.
1.8 - The Enterprise IT Renovation Roadmap.
Chapter 2 - Evolution of the Service Concept.
2.1 - Milestones of Enterprise Computing.
2.2 - Programming Paradigms
2.3 - Distributed Computing
2.4 - Business Computing
2.5 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 3 - Inventory of Distributed Computing Concepts.
3.1 - Heterogeneity of Communication Mechanisms
3.2 - Communication Middleware
3.3 - Synchrony
3.4 - Interface Versus Payload Semantics
3.5 - Tight Versus Loose Coupling
3.6 - Conclusion
References
URLs
PART I - ARCHITECTURAL ROADMAP.
Chapter 4 - Service-Oriented Architectures.
4.1 - What Is a Software Architecture?
4.2 - What Is a Service-Oriented Architecture?
4.3 - Elements of a Service-Oriented Architecture
4.4 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 5 - Services as Building Blocks.
5.1 - Service Types
5.2 - Layers on the Enterprise Level
5.3 - Conclusion
References
Chapter 6 - The Architectural Roadmap.
6.1 - The Architectural Roadmap
6.2 - Fundamental SOA
6.3 - Networked SOA
6.4 - Process-Enabled SOA
6.5 - Conclusion
Chapter 7 - SOA and Business Process Management.
7.1 - Introduction to BPM
7.2 - BPM and the Process-Enabled SOA
7.3 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 8 - Managing Process Integrity.
8.1 - Data Versus Process Integrity
8.2 - Technical Concepts and Solutions
8.3 - Recommendations for SOA Architects
8.4 - Conclusion
References
Chapter 9 - Infrastructure of the Service Bus.
9.1 - Software Buses and the Service Bus
9.2 - Logging and Auditing
9.3 - Availability and Scalability
9.4 - Securing SOAs
9.5 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 10 - SOA in Action.
10.1 - Building Web Applications
10.2 - Enterprise Application Integration
10.3 - Business-to-Business
10.4 - Fat Clients
10.5 - Designing for Small Devices
10.6 - Multi-Channel Applications
10.7 - Conclusion
References
URLs
PART II - ORGANIZATIONAL ROADMAP.
Chapter 11 - Motivation and Benefits.
11.1 - The Enterprise Perspective
11.2 - The Personal Perspective
11.3 - Conclusion
References
URLs
Chapter 12 - The Organizational SOA Roadmap.
12.1 - Stakeholders and Potential Conflicts of Interest
12.2 - The Organizational SOA Roadmap
12.3 - Four Pillars for Success
12.4 - An Ideal World
12.5 - The Real World-Organization-Wide Standards
12.6 - Recommendations for the SOA Protagonist
12.7 - Conclusion
URLs
Chapter 13 - SOA-Driven Project Management.
13.1 - Established Project Management Methodologies
13.2 - SOA-Driven Project Management
13.3 - Configuration Management
13.4 - Testing
13.5 - Conclusion
References
URLs
PART III - REAL-WORLD EXPERIENCE.
Chapter 14 - Deutsche Post AG Case Study.
14.1 - Project Scope
14.2 - Implementation
14.3 - Technology
14.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
References
Links
Chapter 15 - Winterthur Case Study.
15.1 - Project Scope
15.2 - Implementation
15.3 - Technology
15.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
Chapter 16 - Credit Suisse Case Study.
16.1 - Project Scope
16.2 - Implementation
16.3 - Technology
16.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
References
Chapter 17 - Halifax Bank Of Scotland: IF.com.
17.1 - Project Scope
17.2 - Implementation
17.3 - Technology
17.4 - Lessons Learned, Benefits, and Perspectives
URLs
Index.