About the Authors

Matjaz B. Juric holds a PhD in Computer and Information Science. He is a full-time professor at the University of Ljubljana and the Head of the Cloud Computing and SOA Competency Centre (www.soa.si). Matjaz is an Oracle ACE Director, a Java Champion, and an IBM Champion. He has more than 20 years of work experience. He has authored/coauthored Do More with SOA Integration, WS-BPEL 2.0 for SOA Composite Applications, Oracle Fusion Middleware Patterns, Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL, Business Process Execution Language for Web Services (English and French editions), BPEL Cookbook: Best Practices for SOA-based integration and composite applications development (awarded the best SOA book in 2007 by SOA World Journal), SOA Approach to Integration, all by Packt Publishing.

He has also worked on Professional J2EE EAI, Professional EJB, J2EE Design Patterns Applied, and Visual Basic .NET Serialization Handbook, all by WROX Press Ltd. He has published chapters in More Java Gems, Cambridge University Press, and in Technology Supporting Business Solutions, Nova Science Publishers, Inc. He has also published articles in several journals and magazines and presented at conferences. Matjaz has been involved in several large-scale projects. In cooperation with IBM Java Technology Centre, he worked on performance analysis and optimization of RMI-IIOP, an integral part of the Java platform.

My beautiful daughter Ela and my wonderful Eva, this book is dedicated to you. Without your support, this book would not be possible.

Big thanks to my mother and my grandmother (R.I.P.). Special thanks to my colleagues and friends at the University of Ljubljana and Packt Publishing, particularly to Rok Povse and Pece Adzievski, who have helped with code samples, screenshots, and installation.

Denis Weerasiri is a Computer Science and Engineering student, pursuing his PhD at the University of New South Wales. Before this, he worked as a senior software engineer for WSO2, an open source SOA company. He obtained his BSc Engineering degree with first class honors in the year 2010 from the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. His research interests are distributed systems, cloud resource configuration management, and business process management.

I would like to thank my father, Mr. Alfrad Weerasiri, my mother, Mrs. Chandra Pathirana, and my family for standing beside me throughout my life.

I would also like to specifically thank some of my mentors, Mr. Milinda Pathirage, Mr. Waruna Ranasinghe, Dr. Srinath Perera, Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarane, Mr. Samisa Abeysinghe, Mr. Prabath Siriwardena, Mr. Sumedha Rubasinghe, Professor Boualem Benatallah, and all of my colleagues who have provided invaluable opportunities for me to extend my knowledge and shape my career.

I would also like to mention the team from Packt Publishing who contributed to this book in many ways.