Enterprises are pursuing new ways of organizing systems and processes to become service oriented and event-driven. Technology is often difficult, expensive and complex, and without modern approach to prevent companies from being nimble. Enterprise Service Oriented Architecture helps readers cope with this challenge in making different applications communicate in a loosely coupled. This handbook classic utilize vertical thinking leaders work experience in several industries and provides a wealth of knowledge to create the agile enterprise. In this book you will learn: ? How to identify critical success factors for implementing enterprise SOA ? Architectural importance of service registries, interfaces and contracts ? How to design applications and integration practices change as the architect trying to implement the "agile" companies About the Author James McGovern is an enterprise architect for The Hartford. He is an industry thought leader and co-author of best-selling book: A Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture. Oliver Sims is a recognized leader in design, architecture and implementation of enterprise systems and service-oriented component-based. He is co-author of a breakthrough: Business Components Factory. Ashish Jain is a Principal Architect with Ping Identity Corporation, a leading solutions provider for identity federation. Prior to joining the Ping Identity, he worked with BEA Systems where his role is to help BEA customers in designing and implementing their e-business strategies using solutions based on J2EE.