Jason Jones is a software architect specializing in SOA and Java technologies. Since 2003, Jason has worked for Zirous, an Oracle Certified Partner, where he currently holds the position of Senior System Architect. In 2007, Jason was named an Oracle ACE Director, a prestigious international group of Oracle experts. Jason has been accepted as a speaker at Oracle OpenWorld, IOUG COLLABORATE, ODTUG Kaleidoscope, and has a published article on OTN.

Jason's more than 8 years of experience in IT that includes SOA technologies such as BPEL, ESB, SOAP, WS-Security, XML, and Enterprise Java technologies such as Spring, Struts, JMS, JPA, Hibernate, and EJBs among many others. Jason is a Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP), Sun Certified Web Component Developer (SCWCD), and holds a BS in Computer Science from Iowa State University.

Jason's blog can be found at realjavasoa.blogspot.com.

Phil McLaughlin has 20 years of early adopter experience with the technologies associated with SOA, working with architectural models such as object orientation before they were mainstream. In the late 1980s and early 1990s this was largely with the Smalltalk programming language and associated tools but he was asked to investigate and teach Java in 1997. Since then, he has maintained his interest in the development of distributed composite applications intially with CORBA, then J2EE and more recently SOA itself.

Phil's experience of SOA spans the theoretical and practical, having been a senior lecturer in academia until 1997 specializing in object oriented software (which could reasonably be argued as providing the foundations of the SOA architectural model), and how to transfer the requisite skills to developers often struggling with new and different architectural paradigms. Since 1997, he has worked in a number of specialist consultancies covering topics such as analysis and design methods, development and implementation from the OO/SOA perspective.

Phil Joined Oracle Corporation (UK) in 2002 when Oracle acquired the TopLink persistence management framework from WebGain and since then has specialized in working with Partners/System Integrators to educate them on best practice around the use of Oracle Java technology and more recently the Oracle SOA Suite. Phil currently holds the position of Master Principal Sales Consultant in the UK SOA pre-sales team where he provides initial advice and solution mapping to customers and partners about Oracle's SOA offerings.

Phil has worked with both authors for a number of years and is very pleased that thay have decided to share their wealth of knowledge and practical experience with the wider community. For anyone working with Oracle SOA suite, this is a 'must have' book.