Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) is a way of organizing software. If your company's development projects adhere to the principles of SOA, the outcome will be an inventory of modular units called 'services', which allow for a quick response to change.SOA for the Business Developer:- Gives a detailed overview of Extensible Markup Language (XML), including namespaces & XML schema;- Describes Web Services Definition Language (WSDL) & SOAP, the standard SOA technologies;- Gives a clear tutorial on XML Path Language (XPath), a language for deriving data from transmitted messages & other sources. XPath is useful for working with a variety of other technologies, including several described in this book;- Gives comprehensive details on BPEL 2.0, a language that coordinates services and whose preceding version is already in numerous products. The book's coverage is sufficient for most of the work with BPEL and includes a quick-reference guide;- Introduces Service Component Architecture (SCA), a proposed standard for composing & deploying applications. You're sure to hear more of SCA, which is sponsored by 18 companies;- Introduces Service Data Objects (SDO), a proposed standard for representing data in a single way, even if the data comes from different types of data sources. SDO is likely to accompany SCA into the limelight.