About the Authors

Malhar Barai is a senior systems analyst with Satyam Computer Services Ltd., one of India's leading IT services organizations. He has more than seven years of experience in the industry working for leading organizations across India.

Malhar has interest in service-oriented technologies and application integration tools. He has worked on EAI toolset of webMethods and Cast Iron, Java technologies.

You can catch him on various forums that deal with SOA and some of the webMethods forums, or you can read about him on his blog http://malharbarai.blogspot.com

He gets spurred by the daily challenges at work, finding solutions to the problems, and trying his hand at improving processes and solutions.

I would like to acknowledge and dedicate this book to my parents for being sources of inspiration and for guiding me on the right path when it mattered the most. To Jalpa, my lovely wife for, being a constant support and carving out a wonderful life for us. My ex-manager Ajay Mulkalwar for his guidance and encouragement, and the most important person — my soul, my sweet daughter Preisha whose lovely smile makes my time wonderful...

Vincenzo Caselli graduated with a degree in electrical engineering in 1991 from the University of Bologna. He has worked as an independent consultant and a Java trainer for several Italian software houses since 1996. He began working as a developer in Delphi and other visual IDE's with AS/400-based companies. Soon he shifted his focus on Java and began to propose Swing client/server multi-layered solutions to his customers. He also worked in the web development area with several frameworks (Struts, Hibernate, Spring, JSF, and GWT) in different fields (banking, manufacturing, healthcare, e-learning). Recently, he collaborated with IBM in projects based on Eclipse RCP and SOA. He is interested in consultancy and training activities aimed to improve the productivity and quality of the software development process by using open-source products.

I would like to thank my wife Silvia and my daughter Linda for being patient while I worked on this book. I also want to thank my friend Luca Masini for his precious technical advice and help.

Binildas C. A. provides Technical Architecture consultancy for IT solutions. He has more than 13 years of IT experience, mostly in Microsoft and Sun technologies. Distributed Computing and Service Oriented Integration are his mainstream skills, with extensive hands-on experience in Java and C#.NET programming. Binil holds a Bachelor of Technology degree in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Trivandrum (www.cet.ac.in) and an MBA in systems management from Institute of Management, Kerala (www.imk.ac.in). A well-known and a highly sought-after thought leader, Binil has designed and built many highly scalable middle-tier and integration solutions for several top-notch clients including Fortune 500 companies. He has been previously employed by multiple IT consulting firms including IBS Software Services (www.ibsplc.com) and Tata Consultancy Services (www.tcs.com), and he currently works for Infosys Technologies (www.infosys.com) as a Principal Architect where he heads the J2EE Architects group servicing Communications Service Provider clients.

Binil is a Sun Certified Programmer (SCJP), Developer (SCJD), Business Component Developer (SCBCD) and Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP), and Open Group (TOGAF8) Certified Enterprise Architecture Practitioner. He is also a Licensed Zapthink Architect (LZA) in SOA. Besides Technical Architecture, Binil also practices Enterprise Architecture.

When not in software, Binil spends time with wife Sowmya and daughter Ann in 'God's Own Country', Kerala (www. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerala). Binil is a long distance runner and is a national medalist in power lifting. You may contact Binil at or .

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