{"product_id":"9781583470657","title":"SOA for the Business Developer: Concepts, BPEL, and SCA","description":"\u003cp\u003eService-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your company’s development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called \"services,\" which allow for a quick response to change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book tells the SOA story in a simple, straightforward manner that will help you understand not only the buzzwords and benefits, but also the technologies that underlie SOA: XML, WSDL, SOAP, XPath, BPEL, SCA, and SDO. And through it all, the authors provide business examples and illustrations, giving a practical meaning to abstract ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSOA for the Business Developer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Gives a detailed overview of Extensible Markup Language (XML), including namespaces and XML schema.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Describes Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) and SOAP, the standard SOA technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Gives a clear tutorial on XML Path Language (XPath), a language for deriving data from transmitted messages and other sources. XPath is useful for working with a variety of other technologies, including several described in this book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Gives comprehensive details on BPEL 2.0, a language that coordinates services and whose preceding version is already in numerous products. Our coverage is sufficient for most of your work with BPEL and includes a quick-reference guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA), a proposed standard for composing and deploying applications. You’re sure to hear more of SCA, which is sponsored by 18 companies, including IBM, Oracle, and Sun Microsystems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e• Introduces Service Data Objects (SDO), a proposed standard for representing data in a single way, even if the data comes from different types of data sources. SDO is likely to accompany SCA into the limelight.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mc Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034865254640,"sku":"9781583470657","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781583470657_p0.jpg?v=1766595961","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781583470657","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}