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ebizQ's venerable VP, Beth Gold-Bernstein, recently reviewed John Wiley and Sons' SOA for Dummies book, part of the 'Dummies' book series.

While Beth made sure to note that she thought the book had many attributes, the primary one being its readability, she said the book has some inaccuracies in it that she'd like to see corrected in the next edition.

For example, in the SOA architecture diagram they have a service broker connecting to an enterprise service bus. This confused me, because what is an ESB if not a broker? It routes messages to services based on content, polices, and rules. It is functionally equivalent to a message broker, and some vendors renamed their message broker an ESB. In fact, some vendors claim the ESB is a pattern, not a technology, and claim a number offerings that are functionally equivalent. But the essential function an ESB provides is brokering requests and responses between services.

The Wiley folks agreed to take a look at Beth's suggestions for the next edition, so if you have any comments about other inaccuracies to correct, write a comment on Beth's blog.

Regardless, before you buy the book on Amazon, I would recommend taking a look at Beth's review and her followup review of the other reviews.

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