> <<SOA: Getting it Right is a mashup book, edited by Jim Green, CEO > of Composite Software, with chapters contributed by Jim Green, David > Besemer, CTO of Composite Software, Luc Clément, Co-chair of OASIS > UDDI Specification Technical Committee, Hub Vandervoort, CTO of > Progress Software, Paul Butterworth, CTO of Amberpoint, Hemant > Ramachandra, Managing Director of Business Systems Integration for > BearingPoint, Jeff Schneider, CEO of Momentum SI. > ... > My Ah Ha came when I realized that while we talk as IF people knew > how to design services this is not the case at all. There is no one > agreed upon reference model for service layers. Most of the > organizations I have spoken with have low level data access > services (read database calls - JDBC, ODBC calls).
Exactly right. Hence my past complaints: 1) that case studies are lacking as they focus on tools and only mention "we created some services" in passing; 2) there is far too much focus on "exposing data" and "data first" approaches. > Bottom line, I think this book deserves a place on your bookshelf. > We are going to be giving away 5 copies at SOA in Action. Gold-Bernstein mentioned early in her critique that the result of multiple authors is a contradictary hodge-podge of material. Despite that, she recommends it. I came to the opposite conclusion. -Rob
