SOA Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas ERL)

A part of Thomas Erl's SOA series, this title is designed to turn IT professionals into "true" SOA professionals. This specifically means turning the reader into someone who has a clear vision of what it means for a software program to be "service-oriented," who can speak about service-oriented computing from a real world perspective, and who approaches the design of services with a deep insight into the dynamics behind service-orientation. The focus of this book is on the design of services for SOA with an emphasis on how design principles can and should be applied to solution logic in order with the ultimate goal of producing high quality services. This guide strives to provide practical, comprehensive, and in-depth coverage of the service-orientation design paradigm, which encompasses the official definition and detailed explanation of eight key principles, each of which is explored in a separate chapter.