When it's time to move beyond the architect's view of Service Oriented Architecture, the Java SOA Cookbook will show you the implementer's perspective. Instead of answering "what to do" questions with solutions involving buses and clouds, the book answers "how to do it" questions with code you can insert directly into your applications.

Java SOA Cookbook starts with the data model, with recipes that solve the challenges of creating XML vocabularies appropriate for SOA applications. Once you have the data under control, you'll find solutions for processing it, and for building web services that help you pass data into your key applications. The book also has recipes to help you orchestrate SOAP and REST-based web services into larger groups of services. With Java SOA Cookbook, you'll learn to deal with interoperability and quality-of-service issues, so you can complete the key set of tasks for building in SOA.

Every recipe states a problem, provides a clear solution, and includes a discussion of why the solution works, so that you can adapt it to similar situations. The book uses Java for most of its demonstrations, and emphasizes the use of free and open source toolkits, bringing SOA from a budget-crusher to a more normal integration challenge.

The book is currently in progress, but you can access recipes as soon as they're finished with our Rough Cuts edition, which lets you read the manuscript as it evolves, either online or via PDF. When you're ready to move from SOA theory to implementation, Java SOA Cookbook will have the solutions.