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* SOA is the most important initiative facing IT today and is difficult to grasp; this book demystifies the complex topic of SOA and makes it accessible to all those people who hear the term but aren't really sure what it means * This team of well-respected authors explains that SOA is a collection of applications that enables resources to be available to other participants in a network using any service-based technology * Examines how SOA enables faster and cheaper application development and how it offers reusable code that can be used across various applications * Covers what SOA is, why it matters, how it can impact businesses, and how to take steps to implement SOA in a corporate environment"
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Service Oriented Architecture FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi, and Marcia Kaufman Service Oriented Architecture FOR DUMmIES ‰ Service Oriented Architecture FOR DUMmIES ‰ by Judith Hurwitz, Robin Bloor, Carol Baroudi, and Marcia Kaufman Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies® Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River Street Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2007 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, (978) 750-8400, fax (978) 646-8600. Req