This book fills a gap between high-level overview texts that are
often too general and low-level detail oriented technical handbooks
that lose sight the "big picture". This book discusses SOA
from the low-level perspective of middleware, various XML-based
technologies, and basic service design. It also examines
broader implications of SOA, particularly where it intersects with
business process management and process modeling. Concrete
overviews will be provided of the methodologies in those fields, so
that students will have a hands-on grasp of how they may be used in
the context of SOA.
