Summary

The Expert, Practical Guide to Succeeding with SOA in the Enterprise In Executing SOA, four experienced SOA implementers share realistic, proven, "from-the-trenches" guidance for successfully delivering on even the largest and most complex SOA initiative. This book follows up where the authorsrs" best-selling Service-Oriented Architecture Compass left off, showing how to overcome key obstacles to successful SOA implementation and identifying best practices for all facets of execution-technical, organizational, and human. Among the issues it addresses: introducing a services discipline that supports collaboration and information process sharing; integrating services with preexisting technology assets and strategies; choosing the right roles for new tools; shifting culture, governance, and architecture; and bringing greater agility to the entire organizational lifecycle, not just isolated projects. Executing SOA is an indispensable resource for every enterprise architect, technical manager, and IT leader tasked with driving value from SOA in complex environments. Coverage includes Implementing SOA governance that reflects the organizationrs"s strategic and business focus Running SOA projects successfully: practical guidelines and proven methodologies around service modeling and design Leveraging reusable assets: making the most of your SOA repository Enabling the architect to choose the correct tools and products containing the features required to execute on the SOA method for service design and implementation Defining information services to get the right information to the right people at the right time Integrating SOA with Web 2.0 and other innovative products and solutions Providing highly usable human interfaces in SOA environments

Author Biography

Norbert Bieberstein works for IBM’s SOA Advanced Technologies organization supporting worldwide publication and communication of SOA-related topics. He gained firsthand experiences from customer projects in various industries striving to migrate to SOA-based solutions. Norbert published several articles on SOA-related topics, coordinated the IBM Systems Journal issue 44-4 on SOA, and was the lead author of Service-Oriented Architecture Compass (IBM Press, 2005). In 2007, the book SOA for Profit was published, for which Norbert acted as one of the three lead authors. He also co-authored two IBM Redbooks: Introduction to Grid Computing with Globus and Enabling Applications for Grid Computing with Globus. In 1993, he published his first book, CASE-Tools. Norbert joined IBM software development labs as a software engineering consultant in 1989. In total, he has more than 27 years of experience in information technology and computer sciences. In his career, he worked as an application developer at a smaller software vendor and as a scientific programmer at Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), where he received his Master’s degree in Mathematics and Geography. In 2006, he graduated from a corporate MBA program at Henley Management College in Henley, United Kingdom.

Robert G. Laird is an IT Architect with IBM in the SOA Advanced Technologies group, performing worldwide consulting for IBM customers in the area of SOA governance and SOA architecture since May 2006. He is a member of the industry TOGAF (The Open Group Architecture Framework) SOA Governance working group. Robert has more than 20 years experience in the telecom industry at MCI and Verizon Business. He was the MCI chief architect, leading the enterprise architecture group and working across the entire order-to-cash suite of applications. He led the development of the SOA-based single-stack strategy to simplify the multiple network and applications silos. Bob has driven the strategy, planning, and execution of MCI’s product development in the area of contact centers, IP/VPN, VoIP, IMS¿, and managed services. For OSS, he has led successful implementations to automate network provisioning, network restoration, and network management. Before joining MCI, Robert worked as a consultant for American Management Systems (AMS) and Ideation, Inc. He has a Master’s degree and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Purdue University and has been granted two patents in the area of telephony. He has spoken at various industry forums, written for the SOA Magazine, and been quoted in CIO Insight, Telecommunications, InfoWorld, and Computerworld.

Dr. Keith Jones is currently an executive IT architect with IBM in the SOA Advanced Technologies team where he focuses on the definition and implementation of service oriented architectures with leading-edge customers. He has 30 years experience in the IT industry as a systems engineer, software architect, strategist, and author of many middleware publications. Keith’s professional interests center on building transactional, message oriented and service-oriented middleware infrastructures in support of business processes in a wide range of enterprise environments. Most recently, these have included infrastructures at major financial services, retail services, automotive manufacturing, online media, and auction enterprises. Keith has a PhD in Chemistry and lives with his family in Boulder, Colorado, United States.

Tilak Mitra is a Certified Executive IT Architect with IBM Global Business Services, performing global consulting for IBM in the areas of enterprise architecture, helping clients realize their adoption of SOA from its vision through its design and implementation. Tilak has more than 10 years of industry experience in retail, banking, media and entertainment, health-care, and transportation industries, wherein he has worked in various leadership capacities, ranging from business to IT transformations, leading into solution implementation and delivery. Tilak works closely with the IBM SOA Center of Excellence, in which capacity he contributes to the development of various IBM SOA offerings and authors white papers and technique papers on IBM SOA assets. His current focus is on building assets and techniques that foster a radical simplification of the development of SOA based composite applications that are executable on various vendor platforms (for example, IBM WebSphere and SAP NetWeaver). Tilak has a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Science (IISc), India, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Presidency College, India. He is a contributing editor of the Java Developers Journal (JDJ) and is a frequent author in IBM developerWorks and in JDJ and WebSphere Developer’s Journal (both from SYS-CON Publications). He also speaks at various U.S. universities on topics that cover the gamut of SOA.

Foreword	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
About the Authors	p. xix
Introducing SOA	p. 1
SOA in Retrospect	p. 2
New Items to Consider	p. 4
What Makes This Book Different?	p. 6
Who Is This Book For?	p. 6
What Is Covered in This Book?	p. 7
Links to developerWorks Articles	p. 8
References	p. 8
Endnotes	p. 8
Unveiling the Benefits	p. 9
Why the Business Should Care About SOA	p. 9
Architecture	p. 13
Focus on Business Architecture	p. 14
Business Process	p. 15
Business Components	p. 16
Lifting the Veil	p. 17
Link to developerWorks Article	p. 18
References	p. 18
Endnotes	p. 18
SOA Governance	p. 21
Governance of the SOA Strategy	p. 23
Organizing for SOA	p. 32
SOA Governance Considerations	p. 35
Conclusion	p. 55
Links to developerWorks Articles	p. 56
References	p. 56
Endnotes	p. 56
A Methodology for Service Modeling and Design	p. 57
An SOA Reference Architecture	p. 58
Service Oriented Modeling and Architecture 62
Conclusion	p. 80
Links to developerWorks Articles	p. 80
References	p. 81
Leveraging Reusable Assets	p. 83
What Is an Asset?	p. 83
Service Reuse	p. 84
What Makes an SOA Service Reusable?	p. 84
Reusable Patterns	p. 87
Making Legacy Reusable: Harvesting Reusable Components from a Legacy Monolithic Application	p. 91
Conclusion	p. 99
Links to developerWorks Articles	p. 99
References	p. 100
Realization of Services	p. 103
Realizing the SOA Lifecycle	p. 104
Premodeling Activities in an SOA	p. 104
Modeling Services in an SOA	p. 108
Assembling Services in an SOA	p. 121
Deploying Services in an SOA	p. 124
Managing Services in an SOA	p. 126
The SOA Programming Model	p. 134
Architecture and Design Considerations	p. 139
Conclusion	p. 144
Links to developerWorks Articles	p. 144
References	p. 145
Information Services	p. 147
Data or Information Services	p. 147
Data, SOA, and Loose Coupling	p. 148
From Data Sources to Consumers	p. 150
Qualities of Data	p. 152
Data Processes	p. 153
Data Service Provider Logic Patterns	p. 154
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