Imbibing Java Web Services – A Step by Step Approach for Learning Web Services By Mudunuri, Srinivas – 2012
Enterprise Java programmers will find this useful. The book is a survey of the many libraries and toolkits past and present that can be used in a Web Services project.
Service Design Patterns – Fundamental Design Solutions for SOAP/WSDL and RESTful Web Services, Robert Daigneau, – 2012
Web app developers and architects will want to read this book. Hardcover, 300 pages.
SOA and Web Services Interface Design – Principles, Techniques, and Standards, James Bean, Morgan Kaufmann, 2010
Analysts who are configuring Service Oriented Architecture systems will find this book useful. Well written, 350 pages.
SOA Modeling Patterns for Service Oriented Discovery and Analysis, Michael Bell, Wiley, 2010
For enterprise system architects. Dry reading, 450 pages, hardcover.
Implementing SOA Using Java EE, B. V. Kumar, Addison-Wesley, 2010
This book is intended for architects of enterprise systems. Unfortunately, it is poorly written and you will do better with any recent Java EE book. 350 pages.
Applied SOA Service-oriented Architecture and Design Strategies, Michael Rosen,
Wiley, 2008
For the Web Services architect. 600 pages.
Software Pipelines and SOA : releasing the power of multi-core processing / Cory Isaacson, Addison-Wesley, 2009
The Pipelines framework, for large scale business applications, divides processing across several threads which can run efficiently on multicore machines. This book starts with the architecture, then gets practical with the help of example code, well explained. 350 pages.
Implementing SOA : total architecture in practice / Paul C. Brown, Addison-Wesley, 2008
This book is for the SOA architect. It contains theory of business information systems, supported by some UML diagrams. The word `practice` in the title is misleading: don`t expect to find a HelloWorld example here. 700 pages.
Java Web services : up and running / Martin Kalin, O’Reilly, 2009
“This quick, practical, and thorough introduction to Java web services — the JAX-WS and JAX-RS APIs — offers a mix of architectural overview, complete working code examples, and short yet precise instructions for compiling, deploying, and executing a sample application. You’ll not only learn how to write web services from scratch, but also how to integrate existing services into your Java applications. ” — from O’Reilly site.
Service Oriented Architecture for Dummies / by Judith Hurwitz, Wiley, 2009
Here is another book to give to your manager.