Enterprise Application Integration

This book took me from 0 to 60 in the new world of application integration. This is a teaching book, you'll move from very basic concepts to more advanced descriptions of application integration technology. What I liked most about it was that the author does not assume that you're a technology guru, and explains things as you go along. In other words, you don't need to read 6 other books to understand this one. This is an IT classic that you need for your shelves, I got mine.

I'm new to all of this, but I found that this book is the best way to begin the journey towards EAI. What I enjoyed most about this book is author's ability to put complex concepts into perceptive, and the figures are easy to follow. I found Chapter 6 very useful in defining a "step-to-step" approach to EAI, and found the chapter on message brokers to be extremely informative. Overall this is a great book, and I recommend it to anyone interested in this topic.

Before reading this book, all the articles and reports about EAI where too vague, as the concepts were too abstract for me. This book gives an easy step-by-step introduction to the EAI concept, the major forms of EAI implementation and it's major benefits. Excelent book in my opinion.

I purchased this book to get a good EAI education and this book was spot on. The author does a good job in breaking EAI down to its component parts, and provides just enough technical detail to be helpful but not confusing. The graphics are very helpful. If you want to understand what EAI is, this is the book for you.