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What's a "Field Guide"?
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The use of the term "Field Guide" in the title is intended to communicate that this book's format does not comply with traditional tutorial or process-oriented books. ("Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts, Technology, and Design" serves as a tutorial for SOA.)
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The Field Guide consists of a collection of strategies and best practices, and is intended to act as a reference guide, providing advice for a variety of common integration scenarios.
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As a "Field Guide to Integration" this book was intentionally kept vendor-neutral. It concentrates on the concepts and standards behind XML, Web Services, and contemporary SOAs, and therefore does not cover vendor-specific implementations. There are many other books that already do an excellent job of documenting vendor products and proprietary technology.
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The goal was to produce a book that introduces emerging standards, but focuses on the use of established open standards as they relate to common architectures and integration problems. This book is therefore a suitable companion guide to any existing product documentation you may have.
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