Just came across this article on SOA Antipatterns at InfoQ. This is a very well written article. Steve used to be our Chief Architect a while ago before he moved on to join CapGemini.
InfoQ Blurb: SOA Expert Steve Jones from CapGemini provides a hands on look at SOA Antipatterns and a list of ways your SOA project can go wrong. This list includes signs that these problems are cropping up as well as what to do when you see them happening.
Check it out. It definitely gave me some food for thought.
One of the things I've been meaning to do for a long time is to get into some book reviews. I have a rather extensive library of tech books and loads of them are in the "to-be-read" queue and it seems that the best way to cover them is to put up a review. Another thing which i can do is review stuff directly from the publisher which would help fellow readers.
So I've started on the latter approach for now and the first book I'm going to review is the
BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development
The publishers are sending me a copy of the book soon and i plan to get through it as soon as possible. My main aim is to understand how SOA applications are done in different technologies and although my main focus is Biztalk and .NET development , SOA transcends platform and im sure i can pick up quite a few tips to apply to my integration project as well.
I've also got quite a few books loaded up into my DevX Safari bookshelf dealing with SOA. They are
(1) Enterprise Service Bus by Dave Chappell
(2) Enterprise SOA: Designing IT for Business Innovation - By Thomas Mattern, Dan Woods
(3) Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices - By Dirk Krafzig, Karl Banke, Dirk Slama
The third one has got rave reviews on Amazon and i'm looking forward to getting into it , well, as soon as i finish the BPELCookbook. I must say, the Safari bookshelf is really useful and its caused me to buy even more books cos i dislike reading online!
Anyway, I hope these reviews will help you choose the books that you want to buy. Watch this space for the first review.