Comments on: SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE (SOA)

By: Zaila

Zaila — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:48:47 +0000

3.0 out of 5 stars
Good but..
The book has lots of diagrams that explain the various topics.
I like the classification of webservices into primary SOA (basic web services standards) and the contemporary…

By: Myla

Myla — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:32:44 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
SOA Guru
Thomas Erl is SOA approach guru, this book should be read by everyone who wants to know about SOA and who are planning to implement.

By: Myla

Myla — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:44:23 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent SOA Guidelines
Excellent book that develops a real proposal for a process of successful SOA construction.
It is an excellent guide as much in SOA process as in SOA concepts, so that as is…

By: Kesia

Kesia — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:14:37 +0000

1.0 out of 5 stars
A painful political explaination for SOA
The author should be a politician not a writer. This book is painful to read because it goes on-and-on but doesn’t actually say that much.

By: Avice

Avice — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 11:21:47 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
A wonderful book about Service Oriented Architecture
This book help me so much about concepts, design, analysis.
Erl has done a very good work!

By: Birdy

Birdy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:22:25 +0000

1.0 out of 5 stars
Like a really, really long survey of SOA standards
If you want a book that covers most of the SOA standards in one place, this might be helpful. I think you could get that from Wikipedia.

By: Idania

Idania — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 05:45:55 +0000

2.0 out of 5 stars
Too much theory
I found reading this book boring after the first 6 chapters. What would have been more interesting is the author giving possible solutions (i.e.

By: Timila

Timila — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:26:29 +0000

2.0 out of 5 stars
Excessively long winded for my use
It’s hard to understand how the same author wrote this and SOA Principles of Service Design (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl) and…

By: Timmy

Timmy — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:19:37 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars
Independent View of SOA
Thomas Erl in this book provides an excellent reference and an independent/agnostic view of SOA that is not cluttered with Vendor speak.

By: Emera

Emera — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:14:59 +0000

5.0 out of 5 stars Thomas Erl has an easy to read writing style. Highly recommend this book.
While I agree with some of the other reviewers that this book can be 'long winded' at times, it is still a book with a lot of rich information on SOA technology.