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At last, proper enterprise level patterns
This book is best for those working in large enterprises who have big questions about how to govern their SOA inventory. Please note though, it isn't a programming book, it won't help you write a WSDL, it won't help you select an ESB.
Where it is extremely useful though, is that it clearly gives practical advice and it has helped solve some anti-patterns that were forming in our SOA. Without it and "SOA Principles of Service Design" we would have never been able to achieve the benefits of SOA. Anyone familiar with Thomas Erl's books and articles will know that he focusses on a clear definition of terms for SOA and the patterns re-enforce that.
It's fair to say that the book is aimed at those who 'own' service inventories and architects who have to govern SOA process. Sure, some of the patterns seem quite straight forward and obvious - however, our organisation still managed to get some of it wrong and this book helped crystallise the issues and focus on refactoring to "get it right" and achieve our business goals of flexibility, reuse and cost reduction. Before our architecture team focussed on governing by patterns - we did have renegade projects that were adding services that basically were unusable and short sighted.
If there is a weakness, then I would say that the patterns and case studies remain at pretty high level and whilst we all understand "Canonical Schema pattern", we understand the benefits and the reason why it is a pattern - it is very hard to practically produce a common schema and ensure that it can be governed by people or tools. in fact, we've found that some mainstream ESB products simply won't support some of the patterns.
A waste of time for practitioners 
I bought this book looking forward to some practical help in designing a new SOA framework. I started to read the book and had to skip the first 116 pages to get to the first pattern (do you really need to read about what is a "program" at this level). The actual patterns are described in a very high level language which does not really explain the problem the pattern tries to solve and its solution. Even sentences like: FOR EXAMPLE, are followed by more theoretical talk and no real examples.
This book might be useful for architects working for HUGE banks but not for practicing architects looking for practical clean solutions.
Major Milestone
SOA Design Pattern is a major milestone for IT. I Imagine it will get the same status as the all time famous Gamma/Helm/Jonson Design book.
Mathias Dietrich, CEO Mobile Net Solutions LTD
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