Jurij Laznik is an architect and software engineer with over 14 years of experience in BPEL and Java technologies. In the past decade, he has participated in several large SOA projects in the Energetics and Telecommunication sector. He is an accredited Oracle SOA Implementation Champion by the Oracle Partner Network. In the last five years, he has worked in the banking industry on IT projects as both project manager and system design engineer. He is currently employed as an Oracle programmer at Banka Celje d.d. He is also an assigned lecturer for the Educational Center of Energetics Systems (ICES). He received his Master's degree at the University of Maribor. Currently, he is a PhD student at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology at the University of Maribor, Slovenia.
I’d like to thank my patient wife, Romana, and my two very patient children, Ajda and Urban, who put up with me working long night hours in the home office. I would also like to mention Amber, Apeksha, Arun, and Shreerang at Packt for keeping the project on track and giving me the opportunity to write this book.