SOA and web services interface design : principles, techniques, and standards / by James Bean

Chapter 1: SOA : A Common Sense Definition--------
Chapter 2: Core SOA Principles --
Chapter 3: Web Services vs. other Types and Styles of Services--------
Chapter 4: Data: the Missing Link--------
Chapter 5: Data Services----------
Chapter 6: Transformation to Resolve Data Impedance--------
Chapter 7: The Service Interface: the "Contract"--------
Chapter 8: Canonical Message Design--------
Chapter 9: The Enterprise Taxonomy-------
Chapter 10: XML Schema Basics--------
Chapter 11: XML Schema Design Patterns-------
Chapter 12: Schema Assembly and Reuse--------
Chapter 13: The Interface and Change--------
Chapter 14: Service Operations and Overloading---------
Chapter 15: Selective Data Fragmentation--------
Chapter 16: Update Transactions--------
Chapter 17: Fixed Length Transactions and Nulls ----------
Chapter 18: Document Literal Interfaces----------
Chapter 19: Performance Analysis and Optimization Techniques----------
Chapter 20: Error Definition and Handling----------
A: Appendix---------------

With the introduction of increasingly complex Web services over the last decade, there has been an explosion of interest in service-oriented architecture (SOA), a structural style whose goal is to achieve a coupling of interacting services - functionalities such as filling out an online application for an account, viewing an online bank statement, or placing an online booking or airline ticket order. These services