David Chappell
Author of Enterprise Service Bus: Theory in Practice
About the Author
David Chappell BA(Hons Arch), MA(Arch), MA(Law), PhD, RIBA has 50 years of experience in the construction industry having worked as an architect in the public and private sectors, as contracts administrator, as a lecturer in construction law and contracts procedure and as a construction contracts show more consultant. He was Professor of Architectural Practice and Management Research at The Queen's University of Belfast and Visiting Professor of Practice Management and Law at the University of Central England in Birmingham. The author of many books for the construction industry, he is Director of David Chappell Consultancy Limited, is a specialist advisor to the RIBA and RSUA and regularly acts as an adjudicator. Michael Dunn FRICS, FCIArb, BSc (Hons), LLB, LLM is a quantity surveyor with over 25 years of experience in the construction industry, having worked in both the public and private sectors. He was a lecturer and course leader at Leeds Metropolitan University on its Construction Law Arbitration postgraduate course, and is now a director with Rex Procter Partners. He is a visiting lecturer on Birmingham City University's and the RIBA's (Chester, Hong Kong Dubai) Part 3 professional practice courses, and at Leeds Beckett University on its Construction Law Dispute Resolution postgraduate course. show less
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This book is just garbage. Written while everybody was trying either trying to define SOA or figure out what it was before they got fired, this book is a train wreck of acronyms and unrelated partial code samples that couldn't even print "Hello World!" in a browser. It leaves no partially developed esoteric possible implementation unexplored. Now that things have settled down some and implementations are more well-formed, robust, and have market acceptance there is a chance that this author show more has written an updated book. However, because of the bizarre structure of the book and the utterly useless code, I will never buy another thing from these guys. I don't even think these guys ever successfully implemented any of the technology they were covering. If one of your developers is reading this book to learn to implement web services, put him back in testing and get yourself a intern from the local community college. P.S. If you want a used copy just email me your address. show less
Enterprise Service Bus is a good first book to introduce yourself to the concepts behind this technology. David Chappell is a very clear writer and has a deep grasp of the technology, so concepts are introduced and explained in a clear and understandable manner.
I found the first chapter of this book to be more sales job than it needed to be. The author takes the worst case scenarios of integration nightmares that plague very large organizations and uses that as justification for ESB. And show more while this may be true, ESB is made out to be the Deus Ex Machina of the integration problem. It's not, I'm afraid. Technology was never the problem - haphazard development by overworked or disinterested programmers is.
Passing over this flaw, the book really starts in Chapter 3 where the meat of the subject matter is exposed and made clear. Chappell does a superb job of simplifying the basics of ESB, starting with the simple concepts and building upon them with more detailed information in later chapters.
By chapter 9, the concepts are thoroughly explained. The remaining chapters just add more information (and some confusion) into the mix, outlining work that was in progress at the time of writing (2003/2004).
If you can skim through the sales pitches and see them for what they are, this is a very good book to gaining understanding of the basics of the Enterprise Service Bus technology. show less
I found the first chapter of this book to be more sales job than it needed to be. The author takes the worst case scenarios of integration nightmares that plague very large organizations and uses that as justification for ESB. And show more while this may be true, ESB is made out to be the Deus Ex Machina of the integration problem. It's not, I'm afraid. Technology was never the problem - haphazard development by overworked or disinterested programmers is.
Passing over this flaw, the book really starts in Chapter 3 where the meat of the subject matter is exposed and made clear. Chappell does a superb job of simplifying the basics of ESB, starting with the simple concepts and building upon them with more detailed information in later chapters.
By chapter 9, the concepts are thoroughly explained. The remaining chapters just add more information (and some confusion) into the mix, outlining work that was in progress at the time of writing (2003/2004).
If you can skim through the sales pitches and see them for what they are, this is a very good book to gaining understanding of the basics of the Enterprise Service Bus technology. show less
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