Foreword by Mark Little
Over the past decade SOA has moved out of the hype and into mainstream development, becoming a standard part of any architect’s repertoire. Although its roots go back beyond CORBA, SOA came to the forefront with the advent of two technology waves: Web Services and the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). As REST picked up adoption beyond the Web, so it too became useful within the SOA paradigm. Of course, with the rise of cloud and mobile industries, SOA’s applicability has continued to grow and we are seeing more and more business-critical deployments that are examples of good SOA implementations.
In parallel to the evolution and adoption of SOA, the Java language and platform have grown in maturity and dominance within the ...
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