Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies -- About the Authors -- Credits -- Acknowledgments -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- Introduction -- Why This Book Was Written -- Who This Book Is For -- What This Book Covers -- How This Book Is Structured -- What You Need to Use This Book -- Final Thoughts -- Part I: Understanding SOA -- Chapter 1: Realizing the Promise of SOA -- Once Upon a Time... -- Learning from History -- The Promise of SOA -- The Challenges of SOA -- Best Practices in SOA Analysis and Design -- Summary -- Chapter 2: SOA - Architecture Fundamentals -- What Is Architecture? -- What Is Service-Oriented Architecture? -- What Is a Service? -- SOA Reference Architecture -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Getting Started with SOA -- Overview of SOA Implementation Methodology -- SOA Reference Architecture -- Business Architecture -- Business Processes -- Information Design -- Service Identification -- Service Specification -- Services Realization -- Service Life Cycle -- The Service Design Process -- Middle-Out: The Best of Both -- Practical steps -- Summary -- Part II: Designing SOA -- Chapter 4: Starting with the Business -- Business Architecture -- Understanding the Business Motivation Model -- Business Process Management and Modeling -- How to Create Business Process Models -- Conditional Business Process Models -- Recap: Processes and Services -- Organizing Services -- The Service Inventory -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Service Context and Common Semantics -- The Importance of Semantics in SOA -- Core Information Modeling -- Defining Types -- Beyond the Basics -- Structuring Information Models -- Documents -- Documents and XML -- XML Patterns -- Best Practices for the SOA Architect -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Designing Service Interfaces -- Services Revisited -- Design Guidelines -- Interface Design Illustrated.

Solution Model -- Chapter 7: Designing Service Implementations -- Basic Service Architecture -- Implementing the Interface Layer -- Implementing the Business Layer -- Implementing the Resource Layer -- Implementation Design Illustrated -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Composing Services -- Understanding Service Composition -- Architectural Models in Service Composition -- Service Composition Implementation -- Service Composition and Business Rules -- Service Composition and Transactions -- Incorporating Human Activities into Service Composition -- Orchestration with BPEL -- Composition Example - Case Study -- Dos and Don'ts in Service Composition -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Using Services to Build Enterprise Solutions -- Enterprise Solutions versus Applications -- Service-Based Enterprise Solutions -- Layered SOA Architecture and Multitiered Application Architecture -- Locating Services -- Versioning: Dealing with Service Changes -- Architecting Security for Service-Based Solutions -- Exception Handling and Logging in Enterprise Solutions -- Monitoring and Managing Enterprise Solutions -- Enterprise Service Bus-Unified Infrastructure for Enterprise Solutions -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Designing and Using Integration in SOA Solutions -- Challenges of Integration in SOA -- Integration in SOA Defined -- Summary -- Chapter 11: SOA Security -- SOA Security Goals and Fundamentals -- Web Service Security Standards and Specifications -- SOA Security Blueprints -- Applying Concepts from This Chapter - A Simple Case Study -- The Security Game Plan for the SOA Architect -- Summary -- Chapter 12: SOA Governance -- SOA Management and Governance Defined -- The Case for SOA Governance -- SOA Governance and the Service Life Cycle -- Practical SOA Governance -- Summary -- Part III: Case Studies -- Chapter 13: Case Study - Travel Insurance -- Travel Insurance -- Summary.

Chapter 14: Case Study - Service-Based Integration in Insurance -- ACME Insurance -- High-Level Integration Design -- Integration with Existing CICS Transactions -- Integration with the Existing COM Components -- Integration Based on the Existing Java APIs -- Integration with the Existing J2EE Applications -- Integration with Existing Databases -- Integration Based on the Vendor's Web Services -- Summary -- Appendix A: Business Use Cases -- Business Use Case BU01 - Quote Insurance -- Business Use Case BU02 - Process Application -- Business Use Case BU03 - Change Policy -- Appendix B: Evaluating SOA Services -- How Do I Assess Services? -- Appendix C: Additional Reading -- Index.