SOA is the most important initiative facing IT today and is difficult to grasp; this book demystifies the complex topic of SOA and makes it accessible to all those people who hear the term but aren't really sure what it meansThis team of well-respected authors explains that SOA is a collection of applications that enables resources to be available to other participants in a network using any service-based technologyExamines how SOA enables faster and cheaper application development and how it offers reusable code that can be used across various applicationsCovers what SOA i