Enterprise Application Integration: A Wiley Tech Brief
Author: William A. Ruh, Francis X. Maginnis, William J. Brown
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ISBN: 0471376418
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (13 October, 2000)
Sales Rank: 35,657
Average Customer Rating: 3.86 out of 5
Customer Reviews
Rating: 5 out of 5
An excellent introduction to a complex subject
This book provided me with an excellent overview of possible architectures (from messaging to full transactional systems). It also provides good exemples. One of the key positive element of this book is that it provide an overview of current suppliers in this field.
Rating: 5 out of 5
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This book is a *technical brief*, not a technical "how to" book on EAI - it says so right in the title! For those who have a hard time discerning what "technical brief" means, if you see it in a title it is a good indicator that the book is going to give a high level view of the topic. This book does that, and it does it well. Like all well written technical briefs, and certainly those that address a subject like enterprise application integration, this book does a good job of tying together technical and business factors. Personally, I believe that this book can be read by business people because the average business professional comes across as better educated in analytical techniques than those people who work in IT. I also thing that IT professionals should read this book because it shows them the business side.
I hope that people who are considering this book exercise a little analytical ability by reading the title and figuring out that this book does not go into technical detail. If the title doesn't help, perhaps some of the reviews here will.
Let's make it simple: If you want an overview this is the book. If you want technical details, it is not. If you want technical details and buy any book with the words "tech brief" in the title you probably should take some night classes in comprehension or analytical thinking, or consider a different profession.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Basic Education in Communications
if you have spent some time in architecture and consulting this book might be disappointing. I bought this book because I wanted to hear something new about EAI - wanted to get some "how to" advice on typical forces, pitfalls and pragmatic solutions What I read (or better browsed through) were very basic concepts like "what is data integration" or "what is functional integration" or what is a message queue ... All things that you get from other titles onb distributed systems and some basics on data communications .. So .. not much specific on EAI here - for my goal disappointing Similar Products
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