Introduction

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) is rapidly becoming the new standard for today's enterprises. A number of books discuss various aspects of SOA. Most (if not all) are high level in their discussions, providing some strategies for you to consider but very little tactical information. As software professionals, we are able to grasp these abstract concepts fairly quickly, as we're sure you can. However, the devil is always in the details. We know that once we begin to implement a new technology, we will discover a whole new dimension of bugs, design issues, and other problems that are never discussed in those strategy books.

SOA is not a technology; it is architecture and a strategy. In order for you to implement your own SOA, you ...

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