Practical SOA Business Integration

SOA/ESB Background/Theory
● SOA
● Decouples service consumers from providers
● Separates business logic from services
● Enables dynamic service discovery/use
● Appealing to large enterprises (flexible/scalable)

For more info please visit : http://developers.sun.com/learning/javaoneonline/2006/coreenterprise/TS-1076.pdf?

Moving to SOA in J2EE 1.4

Service Endpoints in J2EE 1.4Web Service endpoint is a term used in J2EE to describe Web Service components deployed in a J2EE container. A service endpoint can be implemented using a stateless session bean, in which case it runs in the EJB container, or as a Java class that is registered as a servlet, in which case it runs in the Web container and is termed a JAX-RPC endpoint.
For more info please visit : http://java.sys-con.com/read/180362.htm

Implementing Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) with the Java EE 5 SDK

Service-oriented architecture (SOA) describes a category of composite applications composed of service provider and service consumer components. SOA segregates business logic and offers location transparency for the service providers and consumers.
The SOA approach lets you replace or upgrade individual components in the application without affecting other components or the process as a whole. Moreover, you can independently specify alternative paths through which the components in the application exchange messages.
This article presents architectural concepts and language constructs necessary to developing a SOA composite application in Java EE 5. It then presents an example application, deployed in the Java Business Integration (JBI) environment. The example uses HTTP/SOAP binding components and WS-BPEL and Java EE service engines, illustrating how these components can be orchestrated to solve a business problem.

More info please visit : http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/WebServices/soa3/

Why is SOA interesting to businesses?

SOA protects your investments in legacy applications. So whether you have a Java application, a .NET application or even a COBOL application running on a mainframe- all are equal in a SOA architecture. [5] explains some of the importance of SOA to businesses. [11] is a Gartner report that predicts business acceptance trends for SOA.

For more info :http://www.soaprpc.com/archives/000030.html

Recommended reading list: Service-Oriented Architecture and WebSphere Process Server

This list of recommended reading, compiled from a variety of sources by IBM Software Services for WebSphere, provides links to practical documents that focus on important topics related to developing and using Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an Enterprise Service Bus (ESB). This list is updated peridocally and is intended for customers, consultants, and other technical specialists interested in using and learning more about these areas.

For more info visit http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/websphere/library/techarticles/0604_issw/rrlsoa.html

This tutorial is a guide to developing enterprise applications for the JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5).This tutorial is a guide to developing enterprise applications for the JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5).

For More info

http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/

Lot and lots of online E Books available.
You can download them from the follwing

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