Master the principles, patterns, and real-world applications of Service-Oriented Architecture.

Service-Oriented Architecture: Principles and Applications distills years of SOA practice into a clear, practical, and business-aware guide. Whether you're an architect, developer, or technology leader, this book gives you the foundational mindset and modern strategies needed to design resilient, scalable, service-driven systems.

Service-Oriented Architecture provides a comprehensive, practitioner-level understanding of SOA -- both its timeless fundamentals and its evolving role in today's technology landscape. SOA is far more than a collection of services; it's an architectural philosophy that defines how systems should communicate, scale, and adapt. This book, spanning over 100,000 words and twenty chapters, is designed to make those principles accessible, actionable, and relevant. A clear, structured journey through SOA.

The book is divided into three parts.

Part One lays out the core principles of SOA: what services are, how to architect them, the patterns that guide them, and the pitfalls that undermine them.

Part Two explores how SOA integrates with contemporary technologies -- including cloud platforms, agile development, business intelligence, big data, and mobility -- showing how service orientation remains central even as ecosystems evolve.

Part Three looks ahead to emerging opportunities and risks. From strategic alignment to governance to next-generation architectures, these chapters help you understand SOA not just as an IT technique, but as a long-term enterprise capability.

Whether you're refining an existing service-based system or building a new architecture from the ground up, this book offers the conceptual grounding, practical examples, and forward-looking insights to guide your decisions. The appendices provide additional tools, design patterns, resources, and even career guidance for IT professionals navigating today's service-driven world.

From core principles to next-gen applications: your essential guide to SOA.

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• Publication Date: July 25, 2015
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