Erl T. SOA: Principles of Service Design

SOA Systems, Inc., 2008. – 608 pages.
The focus of this book is first and foremost on the design of services for SOA. There is a constant emphasis on how and where design principles can and should be applied with the ultimate goal of producing high quality services.

Contents:
Introduction
Case Study
Service-Oriented Computing and SOA
Service-Orientation
Understanding Design Principles
Service Contracts (Standardization and Design)
Service Coupling (Intra-Service and Consumer Dependencies)
Service Abstraction (Information Hiding and Meta Abstraction Types)
Service Reusability (Commercial and Agnostic Design)
Service Autonomy (Processing Boundaries and Control)
Service Statelessness (State Management Deferral and Stateless Design)
Service Discoverability (Interpretability and Communication)
Service Composability (Composition Member Design and Complex Compositions)
Service-Orientation and Object-Orientation: A Comparison of Principles and Concepts
Supporting Practices
Mapping Service-Orientation Principles to Strategic Goals
Appendix A: Case Study Conclusion
Appendix B: Process Descriptions
Appendix C: Principles and Pattes Cross-Reference