Good Resources on SOA? [closed]

Question

Have recently been given a project to complete which uses XML quite extensively.Am looking at an existing project which uses SOA. Am eager to get up to speed on SOA and so wondered if anyone coulod recommend any good sites / books etc.

I have a book by Thomas Erl called Service-Oriented Architecture and am looking to supplement this with other resources.

Cheers

Answer 1

From a not so technical point of view there is this great book published by Sogeti and IBM called SOA For Profit wich covers SOA processes SOA Governance quite well. Its a short interesting book that gives you another point of view. Then, depending on the platform/s you choose, each vendor will give you their point of view, for example if you choose Microsoft technologies, a good resource is their SOA site. IBM has another interesting site too.

Answer 2

Infoq has a lot of SOA content.

Like anything hijacked by the middleware venders you'll find a lot of discussion of SOA is dogma very distant from realistic evaluations of return on investment. Keep a critical eye.