Chapter . About the Photographs
When I took these photographs in France several years ago, I never imagined they'd end up in a technical book. But, when I was asked to contribute to the aesthetic design of this guide, my collection of photographs was the first place I looked.
The theme I came up with was to represent XML with natural imagery, Web services with metalwork, and various levels of service-oriented architecture with photos of old building architecture from increasingly modern eras. The last chapter divider page intentionally departs from this theme — it introduces the service-oriented enterprise with a photograph of a contemporary piece of architectural art consisting of spheres encapsulating spheres. Appropriately, this panel of spheres ...
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