Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies

About the Authors

Mike Rosen is chief scientist at Wilton Consulting Group, which provides expert consulting on software architecture, SOA, and enterprise architecture. He is also director of enterprise architecture for the Cutter Consortium and editorial director of the SOA Institute. He frequently speaks at industry symposia and contributes to industry journals.

Boris Lublinsky is lead architect at Navteq, where he is responsible for SOA and BPM implementations. He is a frequent contributor to technology magazines and a speaker at industry conferences. Boris is also an SOA news editor for InfoQ.

Kevin T. Smith is a technical director at ManTech MBI (formally McDonald Bradley, Inc.), where he builds highly secure and data-driven SOA solutions for the U.S. government. He is the author of many SOA technology articles in industry magazines, such as the SOA/Web Services Journal, and has coauthored several technology books, including The Semantic Web (Wiley, 2003), Professional Portal Development with Open Source Tools (Wrox, 2004), More Java Pitfalls (Wiley, 2003), and Essential XUL Programming (Wiley, 2001), in addition to the books where he has written chapters as a contributing author. Kevin has led SOA workshops and has presented at numerous industry conferences, such as the RSA Security Conference, JavaOne, the Semantic Technology Conference, the Apache Open Source Conference, Net-Centric Warfare, the Object Management Group, and the Association for Enterprise Integration.