Enterprise Application Integration Addison-Wesley Information Technology Series)
Author: David S. Linthicum
List Price: $44.99
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ISBN: 0201615835
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (12 November, 1999)
Sales Rank: 11,060
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
too superficial to be useful
This book aims at a good target: explaining EAI to managers. To accomplish this task, the author needed full descriptions of the concepts and meaty examples to illustrate them. This book has neither.For example, the author states several times that SAP needs a richer collection of APIs in order to connect to other application. Nowhere does he describe what is missing: what functionality is hard to access in SAP that should be easy?
Save your money.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Great Book for the New Guy
Just getting going in this world and this book was my Bible. The book does a great job explaining this complex stuff from the very basics to the more sophisticated topics. I found the book to be exactly what I needed, albeit a bit pricy.
Rating: 1 out of 5
I'm writing this review for you, the buyer - not me!
For me to take the time to write a review, I must feel quite passionate (positively or negatively) about an issue. I'm trying to save you money and, even more so, your valuable time in not reading this weak book!I SO DISLIKE THIS BOOK! I liken it to an HTML book that I bought in 1995 (that is now deep under some land fill). Like the HTML book, almost ALL of this EAI book's verbage is spent on extremely high level concepts and yields little in the way of concrete 'actionable information' that you can actually use. It spends time on the development of the author's own taxonomy of different types of EAI (data-level, app-level, UI-level... ad nauseum). If I saw any useful approaches or code in this book I certainly do not remember it.
IMO, if you want to architect, design, and !DO! EAI do not burn your time on this book. Find another source.
On the other hand, if you are of the type (prevalent in our industry today) who smile a lot, wear the right clothes, and speak with passion and authority on things you know nothing about, you will read this book, learn new buzz words, and write back with your own five-star review. Not me! I need to get things done without flapping my arms.
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