Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the Real World: Free Book from Microsoft

I am not sure where it came from, but Microsoft has posted a free 196 page book titled "Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) in the Real World" on their download site. It looks pretty good.

They released "Readings in Service Orientation" a year ago. It was pretty good too.

It is available in XPS and PDF format.

Below I posted the details of Chapter 1 from the table of contents, and the titles of the other chapters.

Chapter 1: Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) 7
Reader ROI 7 Acknowledgements 7
Introduction to SOA 8
The SOA Elephant 8
A simple definition for SOA 9
SOA Myths and Facts 11
The Evolution of SOA 12
Why should I care about SOA? 14
Understanding Services 16
The Tenets of Service Design 18
Tenet 1: Boundaries are Explicit 18
Tenet 2: Services Are Autonomous 20
Tenet 3: Services share schema and contract, not class 21
Tenet 4: Service compatibility Is based upon policy 23
An Abstract SOA Reference Model 24
Expose 25
Compose 25
Consume 26
Recurring Architectural Capabilities 27
Messaging and Services 27
Workflow and Process 28
Data 28
User Experience 28
Identity and Access 28
Management 29
Supporting the Common Architectural Capabilities 29
Common Architectural Capabilities and the Abstract SOA Model 30
Expose 30
Compose 33
Consume 34
Summary 36
References: 38

Chapter 2: Messaging and Services
Chapter 3: Workflow and Process
Chapter 4: Data
Chapter 5: User Interaction
Chapter6: Identity and Access

You can get it here.
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