More SOA books

I'm always on the lookout for good books in the area of Integration, SOA, BPM and Web Services. I recently skimmed through a couple. None of them are medal winners, but some parts are worth the read.

Through my ACM membership, I have access to a limited list of books on books24x7. One of them was "Enterprise Architecture and Integration - Methods, Implementation, and Technologies". Each chapter is written by a different group of authors. The quality of the different chapters and authors varies strongly. The best part is the 1st chapter, written by Wing Lam and Venky Shankararaman, the editors themselves. It is really great! The authors give a great overview on EAI and its relationship with SOA/BPM. The following chapters by differents authors are (in my opinion) of lower quality. The 4th chapter was interesting again as it discussed SAP Netweaver and SAP XI.
If you have access to books24x7, go check out that 1st chapter. But don't spend your money on the book itself.

Via pdfchm.com, I stumbled upon "SOA Approach to Integration - XML, Web Services, ESB and BPEL in real-world SOA projects" by by Matjaz B. Juric, Ramesh Loganathan, Poornachandra Sarang and Frank Jennings. The combination of SOA and Integration in the title set my expectations high. The 1st and 2nd chapter are nice introductory material. But further down, the chapters don't go into much detail. E.g. the BPEL chapter is really about the BPEL XML syntax.

Another book available on pdfchm.com is "SOA and WS-BPEL" by Yuli Vasiliev. The title of the book should rather be "PHP and Web Services". The book is well written. Chapters 1 to 4 go into The 5th chapter goes into BPEL; The 6th and last chapter shows how to implement an example using ActiveBPEL. And although I don't know much about PHP, the books looks very interesting for PHP developers.