Service-Oriented Modeling (SOA): Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Bell
Publisher: Wiley
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ISBN: 0470141115
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Answers to your most pressing SOA development questions
How do we start with service modeling? How do we analyze services for better reusability? Who should be involved? How do we create the best architecture model for our organization? This must-read for all enterprise leaders gives you all the answers and tools needed to develop a sound service-oriented architecture in your organization.
Praise for Service-Oriented Modeling
Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture
"Michael Bell has done it again with a book that will be remembered as a key facilitator of the global shift to Service-Oriented Architecture. . . . With this book, Michael Bell provides that foundation and more-an essential bible for the next generation of enterprise IT."
-Eric Pulier, Executive Chairman, SOA Software
"Michael Bell's insightful book provides common language and techniques for business and technology organizations to take advantage of the SOA paradigm. By focusing modeling techniques on the business problem, Bell provides a way for professionals to work throughout the life cycle to create reusable and enduring services."
-Mike Zbranak, CIO, Chase Card Services
"This book will become an imperative business and technology service-oriented modeling recipe for any manager, architect, modeler, analyst, and developer in today's software development industry."
-Jeff Schneider, CEO, MomentumSI
"'Innovative' and 'groundbreaking' are words that best describe Michael Bell's Service-Oriented Modeling. It depicts a true service modeling approach that elegantly closes a clear and critical service modeling gap in the SOA industry. This holistic book ties these concepts together using real-world examples across a service life cycle that transitions services from ideas and concepts into production assets that deliver business value. A must-read for business and technical SOA practitioners."
-Eric A. Marks, CEO, AgilePath Corporation
"As hot as SOA is today, many business and technology professionals still find it challenging to mind the gap between their disparate methodologies and objectives. Herein Michael Bell speaks clearly to both camps in straightforward language, outlining disciplines each can use to communicate effectively and advance the realization of corporate aims. This book is a bible for all who seek to drive business/technology into the future."
-Mark Edward Goodrich, Director, Investing Product Management, Reuters Media
"This book takes senior IT architects and systems designers into the depths of modeling for SOA, with a fresh new perspective on tools, terminology, and how to turn the theory into practice. His full life-cycle approach balances process, control, and accountability to align all the participants in the delivery pipeline-clearing the road for successful SOA business solutions."
-Phil Gilligan, Chief Technology Officer, EBS
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 Missing Link in the SOA Paradigm March 1, 2008
S. Yan (New York, NY)
45 out of 46 found this review helpful
I have purchased and read many SOA books and they have all fallen into one of 2 camps. They are usually either "HOW-TO" implement a SOAP/XML/WSDL based request response guides with the standard buzzwords of SOA Governance, WS-*Everything and the Kitchen Sink*, and of course a vague description of how an Enterprise Service Bus magically does away with years a poorly implemented legacy systems. This is the first SOA book that I have read that did not waste my time with page after page trivial XML examples but actually presented an entire working formal language(extended or inspired by the UML component model I believe) to describe your existing environment("As-Is") and future-state architecture in everday terms understandable by business users and application developers. I'll admit when I read that the approach is both 'Holistic' and 'Anthropomorphic' I felt like I was being marketed some Ginko-Biloba pseudo mysticism but as I read through I understood that this is an approach to SOA, probably the first, to actually make the the underlying services and consolidation of services visible and tanglible in the way an architect builds a scale model of a proposed structure to provide an in depth understanding of the project to those who are unable to turn equations into 3D structures in there heads(which is most of us). The authors crowning achievement, in my opinon, is the realization that everything (Legacy System, Schedule Batch Job, Business Apporval Process, Business Rules, Storage) must be treated as 'Services' is a quantum leap for SOA that moves the concept of SOA from a vague buzzword to a concrete deliverable, tangible item.
Practical SOA Tips that Produce Results February 28, 2008
SOA Project Manager, PMP
42 out of 43 found this review helpful
The Service-Oriented Modeling: Service Analysis, Design, and Architecture book describes the service-oriented development life cycle in detail and offers excellent project management and monitoring mechanisms. This process starts at the service-oriented conceptualization phase, continues through the service-oriented discovery and analysis, and concludes with service design and architecture. These various disciplines contribute a great deal of success to achieving project milestones and goals. This is particularly important in service oriented architecture (SOA) since often organizations are new to deploying SOA applications.
The other major benefit that is provided by this service-oriented modeling study is the recommendation to take a proactive approach when planning SOA projects. This method advocates devising an SOA development strategy that counts for unpredictable events. Indeed, this is a paradoxical approach, but these events such as recession or even future merger between organizations can immensely influence a service life cycle. Thus, rigorous planning is necessary.
This book is a must for any IT professional that is developing in a SOA environment!
Innovative SOA modeling - Great read February 19, 2008
Hormazd M. Pochara
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
The Service-Oriented Modeling book introduces a new methodology, modeling language, and a service life cycle framework (service-oriented modeling framework - SOMF) that explores untouched software development and SOA specific territories. This creative and insightful testimony identifies software development, business architecture, and technical architecture industry gaps that unveil a fascinating and creative approach to viewing our current software assets and their environments.
The main practices that will chiefly contribute to any organization are:
- Service Life Cycle Planning
- Conceptual Services Discovery
- Conceptual Architecture Modeling
- Service-Oriented Analysis Modeling
- Service-Oriented Integration with Business Architecture Artifacts
- Service-Oriented Design Modeling
- Logical Architecture Modeling
But the most captivating aspect of this book is the language and the notation that will allow us to model our analysis propositions, model business and service integration, and model the design and architecture environments.
This is an imperative book for business and technology personnel, managers, architects, modelers, and developers.
I strongly recommend it.
The Soul of a new SOA February 29, 2008
D. Buckley (New York, NY)
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
In his prior book, Michael Bell gave us the tools, techniques, and practical advice required to get on the path toward a successful SOA implementation. His current book "Service-Oriented Modeling" takes us to the next SOA skill level by providing us with a service life-cycle framework, new methodology, and a new modeling language(complete with new notation).
Bell also provides us with a new perspective of Enterprise SOA.. described by some as an "SOA Ecosystem" or as the fabric which joins business and technology. "Service-Oriented Modeling" is a guide to a new way of thinking about enterprise information pathways.
It's a powerful book, it's a good read, and I highly recommend it !
Realizing SOA! - Profound March 4, 2008
BHD, Enterprise Architect (California, USA)
41 out of 42 found this review helpful
Like all aspects of software development, to be successful, you need a process and an approach to realize a vision. SOA provides sound software development principles, but it is difficult at best without a formal methodology to implement it. A formal modeling approach is a key ingredient to understanding, articulating and ultimately implementing a SOA solution. Michael Bell has done a fantastic job providing a path, based in service and system modeling with a simple and understandable notation, that brings the structure needed to make SOA a reality.
Specifically, two important aspects that this book presents are virtual modeling and federated modeling of software. The virtual modeling term is affiliated to current emerging technologies that encourage reusability by employing data, service, and hardware virtualization. The other important subject that dominates most of the chapters is federated modeling, which is linked to architecture solutions that must address distribution of services, and loose coupling of software components that operate in heterogeneous computing environments.
The book provides a simplified approach to federation and virtualization of software and even offers a modeling language, a simple one, to enable various stakeholders to efficiently describe their past, current, and future enterprise architectures.
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