Great news. Two of my friends and fellow DDJ bloggers, Eric Bruno and Udi Dahan have agreed to join my (now ours) SOA Patterns book which will be published by Manning.

Both Udi and Eric are competent and experienced architects who have experience designing SOAs . On the technology side -  Udi (“The software simplest”) specializes in .NET development e.g. his nServiceBus framework – which is a very good example for an endpoint-ware ServiceBus (vs. middleware ServiceBuses which is what most ESBs do).And  Eric, on the other hand, is a Java and C++ expert . Eric is the author of Java Messaging (one of the best books on JMS and web services ) and has also has a lot of experience in Financial systems. Together, the three of us bring a lot of real-life experience of building large and complicated system into this project.

The current game plan is for Eric to focus on the SOA pitfalls (“anti-patterns”) part of the book, Udi to provide a “putting-it-all-together” chapter , and for me to cover what’s left. I am sure however, that their experience and insight will also help make the other parts of the book (even? ) better.

If you are not familiar with the book - you may want to take a look at the first chapter and/or some of the published patterns like Saga, Service Firewall, Gridable Service, Edge Component and (a very early draft of) Aggregated Reporting pattern . Also you can take a look at the slides from my "SOA Patterns" presentation at Dr. Dobb's Architecture & Design world last year, which illustrates some additional patterns