Having worked with SOA for so long in Java I probably know quite a lot on the subject. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I discovered the Java SOA cookbook and how it helped me cover some of the landscape that had changed while I was busy building stuff. As of this time of writing the note, I have gone through only one chapter - on RESTful webservices. Yet the way the author treated that subject was wonderful. It is perhaps one of the most forceful, clear and definitive argument about and for RESTful services. I have been working with RESTful services for 2 years, but like most under-cover, shoe-strung-budget projects, been unable to completely contemplate, code and champion the purist ways of doing it.
This chapter by [EbenHewitt] ( is he Australian?) where he cooks evocative and clear recipes of RESTful services in JAX-RS (the new API) and his thoughts on what real REST means - is crystalline.
After Richardson's book, just this chapter alone merits that this book/chapter should be on the reference table for every SOA effort using Java.
I am not sure about the other chapters yet, but that chapter enhanced my knowledge a lot on a subject that I already know quite a bit.
I also wanted to note how I got to it. Through the Safari Oreilly subscription. I have a personal subscription to their entire library. So, now, I just search for keywords (excellent search interface) that I am trying to research. In this case, it happened to be the Jersey implementation of the JAX-RS API. Since the API is new, there were only a few references that were returned and one of them happened to be this book. And, what a wonderful, serendipitous discovery that!
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