Thomas Erl has an easy to read writing style. Highly recommend this book.

While I agree with some of the other reviewers that this book can be 'long winded' at times, it is still a book with a lot of rich information on SOA technology. It is not a book about how to perform SOA implementation, but contains abstract problems and how SOA solves those problems. Thomas Erl is one of a few technical authors I've found to have a gift of communicating well on paper, and this book's content moves along in a graceful manner. If you are looking for a very technical implementation book on SOA then this is not the right book (though I'd look at some of the author's more recent releases for that). This is not a book to be read quickly, as the author presents the information in a 'beefy' style with a lot of information, some perhaps redundant, but I believe is there to drive home his message. As a software engineer for nearly 30 years, I've read nearly 100 technical books, but I must say that this one (my first one of Thomas Erl's Series) stands out as one of the best. SOA is a very complicated topic, and there is not a short-cut to fully digesting it. I would highly recommend this book to be part of your SOA reference library.

Other Reviews

• Much too verbose, will confuse someone just getting into SOA
• Thomas Erl has an easy to read writing style. Highly recommend this book.
• Independent View of SOA
• Excessively long winded for my use
• Too much theory