Press Release
February 27, 2007
O'Reilly Releases Programming WCF Services: Building SOAs with Windows Communication Foundation
Sebastopol, CA--As Juval Lowy observes, it's difficult to get a consistent
answer from different people on what WCF is: "To the web service
developer, it is the ultimate interoperability solution, an implementation
of a long list of industry standards. To the distributed application developer,
it is the easiest way of making remove calls and even queued calls. To
the system developer, it is the next generation of productivity-oriented
features, such as transactions and hosting, that provide off-the-shelf
plumbing for applications. To the application developer, it is a declarative
programming model for structuring the application. And to the architect,
it is how one can finally build service-oriented applications," says Lowy,
adding, "WCF is in actuality, all of those, simply because it was designed
that way--to be the unified next generation of Microsoft's disparate
technologies."
The importance of WCF to the .NET developer is not to be underestimated.
"To me, WCF is simply the next development platform, which to a large
extent subsumes raw .NET programming. WCF should be used by any .NET
developer, regardless of application type, size, or industry domain," says
Lowy. His new book, Programming WCF Services (O'Reilly, US $44.99) is
an authoritative introduction to Windows Communication Foundation (WCF), a
book that goes beyond mere documentation to providing the insight
developers need to understand the platform.
"WCF allows developers to focus on the business logic, not on the
plumbing, and decouples them from the plumbing by providing
off-the-shelf-plumbing," says Lowy, a Microsoft Software Legend who took
part in the strategic design of WCF and worked with the team that
implemented it. "This enables developers to be incredibly more productive,
and to cross boundaries such as technology, team, industry domain,
business models, etc."
Programming WCF Services focuses on the rationale behind particular
design decisions, often shedding light on poorly documented and
little-understood aspects of SOA development. Developers and architects
will not only learn the "how" of WCF programming, but also relevant design
guidelines, best practices, and pitfalls. Original techniques and
utilities provided by Juval Lowy throughout the book go well beyond the
guidance that can be found in conventional sources.
Programming WCF Services covers:
- Service contract factoring
- Data contract versioning and marshaling
- Scalability strategies
- Operations, calls, and events
- Transactions and fault handling
- Concurrency management
- Queued services
- Service-oriented security
Juval Lowy is a software architect and the principal of IDesign, a company
specializing in .NET architecture consulting and advanced .NET training.
Lowy is Microsoft's Regional Director for the Silicon Valley, working with
Microsoft on helping the industry adopt .NET. He participates in the
Microsoft internal design reviews for future versions of .NET and related
technologies. Lowy has published numerous articles, regarding almost every
aspect of .NET development, and is a frequent presenter at development
conferences. Microsoft recognized him as a Software Legend --one of the
world's top .NET experts and industry leaders.
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More information about the book, including table of contents, index, author bio, and cover graphic
Programming WCF Services
Juval Lowy
ISBN: 0-596-52799-7, 610 pages, Print: $44.99 US, $58.99 CA
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