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The Minimum You Need to Know
About Service Oriented Architecture

Special Features: CD included, Exercises with answers and comprehensive index

Pages: 370 pp
ISBN: 0-9770866-6-6
ISBN-13: 978-0-9770866-6-5
Format: Softcover, Perfect binding, 7 in. x 9 in.
Retail price: $45.00

2008 Best Book Award Winner USA Book News
Category: Business: Technology/Computers/Internet
2009 Eric Hoffer Award Finalist

Available for ordering through:
Island Computers
Alibris
Barnes & Noble
Sony (EPUB version)

This is not your typical, dime-a-dozen SOA book.

Whereas many other books focus on the front-end of SOA, this book focuses on the backend. This
is the book that tells developers how to actually connect to the Heritage data silo/application that
other books just draw a box around and say, "Connect somehow."

This book addresses that problem.

The first five chapters of this book provides an eye-opening overview for Management. The
remaining seven chapters are for programmers.

What You'll Learn from the Book

Port FMS-based business applications to Intranet or Internet applications using ACMS
ACMS fundamentals
How to connect to the Heritage data silo/application
Service Oriented Architecture principles

Reviews

"With clearly defined examples and many diagrams and flow charts, this 370-page volume even
has a source code CD. From a technical aspect, I could not have found a more detailed
explanation of ACMS and the innovative methods explained by Mr. Hughes. I gave “The Minimum
You Need to Know (About Service Oriented Architecture)” my highest rating of A+ and recommend it
to all the software geeks that could use more information on this subject."

William Phenn, Reader Reviews

"A precise overview of do-it-yourself SOA."

Kirkus Discoveries

"I haven’t done anything with SOA (yet), have little experience with Java but enough to dislike it in
normal life, and none with ACMS. Still, with this book, I am confident I can create a well designed,
well behaving and well working service on OpenVMS."

Willem Grooters