Executing SOA – A Practical Guide for The Service Oriented Architect

Executing SOA is intended for business consultants and enterprise architects. This is not a book on implementing web services using a particular technology stack; it instead provides a view of SOA as it applies to an enterpise. The authors begin with a discussion of the business and technical forces within an enterprise that give rise to the need for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).

This is an IBM press book, so the focus is on tools from IBM. References to online articles from IBM’s developerworks site for further reading; topics in the book on which further material can be obtained online are conveniently at here