Oracle SOA Suite Developer’s Guide

My friend Matt Wright just pointed out to me that I hadn’t mentioned that our book was now available.  Thanks to the guys at Packt Publishing for guiding us through the process and publishing the book.  Our focus when writing the book was to provide a practitioners guide to implementing SOA using the Oracle SOA Suite.  As such we have set each component of the SOA Suite within the context in which might be used.  This seems to be the area that a lot of companies starting down a SOA path struggle with.  They are unsure what bits of technology to use for what.

Dave Shaffer, Oracle VP for SOA, kindly wrote a foreword for us.

Writing the book has been a huge undertaking for both Matt and myself.  During the writing of the book the 11g release was seriously delayed so we switched versions from 11 to 10.1.3 (the current production release).  Matt decided that he was sick of 365 days of rain and moved his family from England to Australia.  Finally Oracle purchased BEA and caused a re-evaluation of the Service Bus technologies.

I am pleased with the way the book has turned out, and Matt and I learnt a huge amount as we prepared the book, both of us had to delve into area with we weren’t totally familiar.  Matt became a master of the Rules engine and I discovered the marvelous new deployment capabilities added to the 10.1.3.4 release.

We have made every effort to match the book to the current production 10.1.3.4 release so get yourself a copy and give us some feedback.