/recensioni/libri/EnterpriseSOA

REVIEW (Mariano Ceccato)

rate:
(1/5) very poor

content:
the book advertises how SAP supports SOA

like:
the title, only

funny:

omitted:
too many things, see the detailed description

comment:
I'm not happy with this book, because contents do not fit with the title.

summary:
The title of the book is quite misleading because it makes the reader think that the book is about SOA in general (technologies, languages, standards, implementations and so on). Actually the book does not address those topics, it describes only how SAP provides out-of-the-box tools that could be used to cope with SOA.

While reading this book I had the impression that the authors were trying to sell me some products, instead of clearly explaining contents.
The book has been written using a commercial point of view of the problem, it is an example of how to sell a piece of technology to a customer. The book is far away of technically describing how to design or implement SOA, as a manual should do.

Moreover, the book suffers the problem of being too much focused on the SAP tools and how to use them to support SOA. In this way the authors fail in providing a general description that could be useful to address the same problem in a different developing scenarios such as, for instance, when using other tools even if equivalent to the ones provided by SAP.

There is a not clear separation between the author opinion about the SOA approach and the actual benefits provided by it. I think that a reader (like me) is much more interested in understanding how SOA works, which languages/protocols can be used to support them, instead of reading the author opinion/view about SOA. I think that mixing those two things together means cheating, because an inexpert reader could read opinions as facts, and this is quite disappointing.

RECENSIONE (Mariano Ceccato)