NetBeans Enterprise Pack: Building SOA Applications
Product Details
- Paperback: 300 pages
- Publisher: Packt Publishing (January 8, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1847192629
- ISBN-13: 978-1847192622
- Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 0.9 inches
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
The first part of the book will discuss SOA basics and NetBeans fundamentals. It will also highlight the Enterprise pack capabilities and the available visual designers. The second part of the book will attempt to build a complete sample business application.
There’s a fair amount here, in terms of the topics covered. What is significant may well vary with the reader. The book starts with a quick rundown on SOA and BPEL. But if you need more details on those, consult texts dedicated to them. Hopefully, to make sense of this book, you’re already well versed in SOA and BPEL.
Both have received attention for several years. However, looking at books on these, you might be struck by the lack of a user friendly tool to compose a BPEL process out of other processes. That deficiency is addressed here, in the sections on the BPEL Designer. You don’t usually want to edit the raw XML files that define a BPEL process (or a Web Service). The verbosity of XML makes this error prone. Hence the BPEL Designer is a great aid. At a graphical level, the text shows how the Designer lets you easily drag and drop processes, and hook these together, into a new process.
If any of you come from an electrical engineering background, there’s a good analogy. Spice was and is the definitive way to define an electrical circuit, for simulations. At one time, you had to write a text file that defined the elements and linkages in a circuit. Then various GUIs came along in the 80s, that greatly eased the effort. Same here. The BPEL Designer offers the same productivity gains.
There’s more stuff in the book. But this is what caught my eye.