The Definitive Guide to SOA Oracle Service Bus [Paperback]

The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle? Service Bus, Second Edition targets professional software developers and architects who know enterprise development but are new to enterprise service buses (ESBs) and serviceoriented architecture (SOA) development. This is the first book to cover a practical approach to SOA using the BEA AquaLogic Service Bus tool. And it's written from the sourceBEA Systems AquaLogic product lead Jeff Davies.

• This book provides handson information to developing SOAdriven applications with ESBs as central components.
• It also gives strategic guidance on SOA planning, web service lifecycle management, administration of an ESB, and security considerations.
• Author Jeff Davies is careful to cut through theory and get straight to demonstrating successful use of the product.

This book is a hands-on guide for developing SOA-driven applications with ESB as central components. It gives strategic guidance on SOA planning, web service lifecycle management, administration of an ESB and security

T he enterprise service bus (ESB) is a hot topic today. Many vendors are either building new products in this category or dressing up their existing products to pitch as ESBs. However, there is no clearly accepted definition of what an ESB is, what its architecture should be, or what its programming paradigm should be. Definitions range from saying that it is nothing and wholly unneeded to saying it is everything and has all the capabi- ties of a full integration suite with built-in orchestration, data aggregation, and web services management capabilities. Architectures range from being embedded in the clients and endpoints to being a central intermediary to being a decentralized intermediary. Progr- ming paradigms for the ESB range from writing Java to being completlc5