Provided in this section are biographies for some of the contributors. For a cross-reference of contributors and patterns, see the Index of Patterns page located before the main index at the end of this book.
David Chappell
David Chappell is Vice President and Chief Technologist for SOA at Oracle, where he is driving the vision for Oracle’s SOA Grid initiative. David has more thanr 20 years of experience in the software industry. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of service-oriented architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards. As author of Enterprise Service Bus (O’Reilly, 2004), David has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. David is also currently working on a separate title dedicated to grid-enabled service-oriented architecture, a topic he has already written extensively about.
Kevlin Henney
Kevlin Henney is an independent consultant and trainer based in the UK. His areas of interest and practice are software architecture and patterns, programming languages and techniques, and agile development processes and practices. He is and has been a columnist for a number of software development magazines and sites, including Better Software, The Register, Java Report, and C++ Report. Kevlin is co-author of Volumes 4 and 5 in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series (A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages).
Florent is a freelance IT consultant in Brussels who has been involved in the XML world for more than 11 years and is a recognized expert within the XSLT and XQuery communities. Soon after discovering Web services, he had the opportunity to work with them for several years with major European institutions and companies in the financial and IT consultancy sectors in Brussels and London, such as ING and Atos Origin. In 2008 Florent won the SOACP contest by tying for the highest score among all participants in a series of certification workshops associated with the 2008 International SOA Symposium. As a result, Florent received his SOA Architect certification with a special “Top Gun” designation. Florent maintains a blog at www.fgeorges.org.
Jason Hogg
Jason Hogg is an Architect inside the Microsoft Services Managed Solutions Group. Jason has been with Microsoft for six years where he has also worked inside Microsoft’s Patterns & Practices and Microsoft Research divisions. While at Microsoft Jason has specialized in topics relating to the design of distributed applications, with an emphasis on SOA, security, and interoperability. Prior to joining Microsoft Jason, worked for 12 years as a consultant in the United States, Great Britain, and Australia at organizations including The United Nations, WorldNow, J Sainsbury’s, British Airways, and BankWest. Jason holds an MSc (CompSci) from the University of Washington.
Anish Karmarkar
Anish Karmarkar, Ph.D., is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Oracle and is part of the standards and strategy team responsible for SOA, Web services, and Java specifications. He has 17 years of research, development, and standards experience in various aspects of distributed systems and protocols. Anish is a co-editor of various Web services standards, including SOAP 1.2, WS-ReliableMessaging, WS-ReliableMessaging Policy, WS-Make-Connection, WS-I Basic Profile, WS-I Reliable Secure Profile, WS-I Attachments Profile, RRSHB, amongst others. He is also a co-editor of the SCA set of specifications. As an active participant and a founding member in various Web services and SOA-related Working Groups, Technical Committees, Expert Groups in W3C, OASIS, JCP, and OSOA collaboration, he has played a significant role in the development of Web services and SCA standards and specifications. Anish has been on the Board of Directors of the OSGi Alliance since 2006, co-chair of the OASIS SCA BPEL Technical Committee, and Oracle’s alternate representative on the JCP “Big Java” Executive Committee. He has also served as the vice-Chair of WS-I Basic Profile Working Group. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A&M University in 1997.
Dr. Mark Little is Engineering Director at Red Hat where he is the Technical Development Manager for the JBoss SOA Platform. Prior to this he was the lead on the JBossESB and JBossTS projects, where he is still the Development Manager. Mark has over 20 years of experience in using and developing distributed systems, that includes being Chief Architect at Arjuna Technologies and a Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett Packard, where he lead the transactions team to produce the world’s first Web Services transactions product. Mark spends a lot of time working in various standards bodies, including OASIS and W3C, and has co-authored several of the WS-* standards. He has presented regularly at conferences, workshops and events such as JavaOne, HP World, JBoss World, the SOA Symposium, and the World Wide Web Conference where he has also been a co-chair on the Web Services track. Mark is also a co-author of a number of books including Java Transaction Processing and the upcoming title ESB Architecture for SOA.
Brian Lokhorst MSc, BSc, SOACP
Brian Lokhorst is a Solution Architect for the new Declarations Management System (DMS) of the Dutch Tax and Customs Administration (DTCA). Previously, Brian worked as an integration-technology architect in the program responsible for getting the DTCA transformed into a service oriented organization. He advised on the gradual migration towards a service-oriented way of thinking, with a special focus on Web services and the use of ESB-technology for its technical implementation. As technical team lead and senior infrastructure developer Brian was responsible for a B2B-integration implemented with Web services and ESB-technology between two government agencies. Prior to that he was responsible for developing the ICT service portfolio architecture and the architecture of software factories for the DTCA. Brian is a Certified SOA Architect and an IBM Certified RUP 7.1 Solution Designer. Brian holds an MSc in Business Economics & ICT from the University of Groningen and a BSc in International Business Economics from the School of Business and Economics at Windesheim University.
Brian Loesgen
Based in San Diego, Brian Loesgen is a Principal Consultant with Neudesic, a firm that specializes in .NET development and Microsoft server integration. Brian is a five-time Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server and has extensive experience building sophisticated enterprise and mobile solutions. In addition, Brian has been involved with advanced Enterprise Service Bus solutions, and was a key architect and developer of the “Microsoft ESB Guidance” released by Microsoft in Oct 2006. He is a co-author of six books, including BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed, and is currently working on SOA with .NET. He has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft, and others and has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a co-founder and past-President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org). He is the President of the San Diego .NET user group, leads the San Diego Software Industry Council SOA SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the .NET Developer’s Journal. Brian is also a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Division Virtual Technical Specialist Team, and is part of Microsoft’s Connected Systems Advisory Board. Brian’s blog is at blog.BrianLoesgen.com.
Berthold Maier
Berthold Maier works for Oracle Consulting Germany as Chief Architect and has more than 15 years experience as a developer, coach, and architect building complex, mission-critical applications and integration architectures. Within the last seven years at Oracle he has held several positions in the German consulting organization with a focus on Java/JEE, Integration, SOA, BPM, DB, ECM, security, and, most recently, enterprise architecture management.
Since December 2006 Berthold has been the acting Chief Architect for the entire Oracle consulting division in Germany. In this position he is responsible for reference architectures pertaining to integration and JEE, and for the Oracle Consulting Development Frameworks. He is also the originator and architect of the Accelerate Consulting Framework based on MDA, SOA and ADF. Berthold is a well-known speaker and author, and is also a co-founder of the Masons-of-SOA, an inter-company network founded by architects of Oracle Germany, Opitz, SOPEra (Eclipse Project Swordfish founders), and EDS.
Hajo Normann
Hajo Normann is an SOA/BPM evangelist and architect at EDS. His interest for business focused, enterprise-wide, cross-siloed bundles of functionality (services) first emerged in 2001 while acting as the architect and technical team lead for a shared service platform at a large German bank. In 2003, Hajo modeled business processes at the Federal Office and is now working on a governmental project focused on BPMN models and executable WS-BPEL processes. Much of Hajo’s research has been concentrated on the missing links between SOA and BPM and he is regularly engaged in discussions and thought exchange with BPM and ESB thought leaders at Oracle Headquarters. Hajo co-leads the German DOAG SIG SOA, co-founded the Masons-of-SOA, acts as an Oracle ACE Director, and is a frequent speaker at public events.
Chris Riley is a Senior Consultant and Instructor with SOA Systems Inc. and has been part of many engagements across North America. In his capacity as a consultant, Chris is working with Fortune 500 organizations (such as Pearson, Kodak, SAIC, and State of Indiana) in the financial services, consumer products, education, and government sectors in their pursuit of enterprise SOA. He specializes in helping organizations move from traditional distributed computing processes to SOA using open standards. Prior to SOA Systems, Chris ran the Professional Service department for Cape Clear Software as Director of Architecture helping North American customers implement Enterprise Service Bus technology. In this role, Chris also coordinated and supported webinars and speaking engagements promoting ESB and SOA with Gartner and Forrester, as well as public forums, such as the Integration Consortium, Toronto Java User Group and SOA Seminar Series. Previous to Cape Clear, Chris worked at Extricity, Inc. as a Senior Solution Consultant and PTC as a manager of Technical Services.
Thomas Rischbeck
Thomas is an IT architect and business developer with the Swiss-based [ipt] consultancy group. He has many years of experience in the delivery of complex e-business architectures in the government and logistics domains. Thomas advises clients on their enterprise architecture and works on various technical and organizational topics with a focus on SOA infrastructure and SOA governance. Thomas has a strong foundation in asynchronous integration middleware and distributed and parallel architectures. Prior to joining [ipt], Thomas worked as a senior engineer with the Hewlett Packard middleware division (ex Bluestone). At HP he was the lead developer for the JMS message broker and its integration into the HP application server. After the HP-Compaq merger in 2001, Thomas took on the role of solutions architect with Arjuna Ltd. Thomas holds a B.Sc. in Computing Science and a Ph.D. in Parallel Computing, both from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He is a frequent speaker and also active as an author for the upcoming book ESB Architecture for SOA.
Satadru Roy
Satadru Roy is a Senior SOA Architect with Sun Microsystems, Canada where he consults with clients to provide architecture and design guidance for their SOA initiatives. Satadru has extensive consulting experience in various domain verticals and he has also worked for well-known infrastructure software vendors, such as BEA Systems, Inc. He has extensive experience in middleware, application integration and BPM, and is a strong proponent of open source-based integration technologies. Satadru is one of the co-authors of the upcoming SOA with Java title.
Arnaud Simon
Arnaud Simon is a Red Hat senior middleware consultant and co-author of the upcoming book ESB Architecture for SOA. Prior to Red Hat Arnaud was an IT Architect working for IPT, a European systems integrator based in Switzerland. Before that he was leading the Message Service Team for Arjuna Technologies Limited, a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard where he was a senior research and development engineer. Arnaud obtained his Ph.D in Computing Science from INRIA and completed research posts at both INRIA and Newcastle University.
Bernd Trops
Bernd Trops is the Director of Professional Services at SOPERA GmbH. Since the mid-90s he worked for several companies (including GemStone, Brokat, WebGain, and Oracle) as a Systems Engineer and coach on countless OO and J2EE projects.
During his Oracle days Bernd held the position of SOA Architect with focus on large-scale initiatives. One notable project included the Deutsche Posts Service Back Bone, which eventually became the foundation for the Eclipse SOA Runtime Framework’s core Project Swordfish. Today he is responsible for consulting and training at SOPERA, which supports an OpenSource SOA platform contributed to the Eclipse Foundation. Bernd is also a co-founder of the Masons-of-SOA.
Clemens Utschig-Utschig
An eight year Oracle veteran, Clemens works for the SOA Product Management team at Oracle Headquarters in the USA where he is responsible for product strategy and developer adoption. During the early days of Java Clemens founded the local Java Community and years later he was nominated as Austria’s representative into the EMEA Java/XML community. Clemens spent years consulting in Switzerland and Dubai and performed workshops all around Europe. In 2004 he was the first consultant from EMEA to be invited for an internship with Oracle where he spent a month developing the XML Datacontrol for the JSR-227 reference-implementation that is since part of the official samples. Since his transfer into the SOA/integration engineering group, Clemens is responsible for cross product integration and currently acts as advisor for SOA to Fusion Applications development. He is an advisory member of the Applications Architecture Board and a member of the OASIS SCA assembly Technical Committee. In 2006 Clemens was designated as the youngest Oracle ACE for contributions to the developer community on OTN, and graduated the same year as the youngest Certified Project Manager from Stanford University. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and has published articles in known industry journals. Clemens is an advisory member of Oracle’s Arch2Arch community, serves in the advisory board for SOA at the Germany-based JAX/SOACon conference, and is co-founder of the Masons-of-SOA.
Torsten Winterberg
Torsten Winterberg works for the Oracle Advantage Partner OPITZ Consulting as the director of the Application Development division. He is a long-time developer, coach, and architect with specializations in the areas of Java EE, BPM, BPEL, ESB, BAM and SOA in general. He is a known speaker in the German Java community and has written numerous articles on SOA-related topics. He is currently focused on the design and architecture aspects of projects based on the Oracle SOA Suite. Torsten is part of the Masons of SOA and is co-authoring an article series on “Hot SOA topics not tackled yet by others” for the German Javamagazin. He is also a member of the advisory board for two big German conferences (Jax, W-Jax), was BPM track chair for Jax 2008, and helps lead the DOAG Special Interest Group SOA. Torsten was recognized by Oracle for his evangelist role by being the designated Oracle ACE Director since 2007.
Dennis Wisnosky
Dennis Wisnosky is Chief Technical Officer of the US Department of Defense (DoD) Business Mission Area within the office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Business Transformation (OUSD (BT)). He is recognized as a creator of the Integrated Definition language, the standard for modeling and analysis in management and business improvement efforts. Wisnosky holds a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from California University of Pennsylvania, a master’s in management science from the University of Dayton, and a master’s in electrical engineering from the University of Pittsburgh.