From the author:

SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) for the Business Developer, by Saul Ben Margolis, gives a clear introduction to service-oriented architecture from a technical point of view, covering several open standards that will be the basis of tooling in the coming years. The work has become a top seller among books that feature Business Process Execution Language (BPEL); and Charlton Barreto, senior scientist at Adobe, has called the work "splendid" [2]. Additional praise came in a German-language review by Nicole Wengatz, who represents Siemens in the effort to design Service Component Architecture (SCA) and Service Data Objects (SDO): "It's a must," she said, and "a lot of fun to read" [3]. An American reviewer said that the book's "refreshing approach lets the reader "go from 0 to 60 pretty quickly" [4].

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