Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies®

Authors' Acknowledgments

For us, the journey to Service Oriented Architecture For Dummies has been magical. From seeing the real need to its instantiation has been a mere matter of months. For this, we heartily thank our friends at Wiley, most especially Mary Bednarek, Katie Feltman, and Paul Levesque. We couldn't ask for a better team. Thanks, too, to our tech editor, Arnold Reinhold.

Though the entire software industry is espousing SOA, the commitment from Sandy Carter at IBM to help make this book happen was instrumental in its timely release.

Thanks to IBMers Sandy Carter, Steve Mills, Robert LeBlanc, Bob Zurek, Michael Curry, Glen Hintze, John Simonds, John Choi, Shaun Jones, Sarita Torres, and Martha Leversuch.

Thanks to HP's David Gee, Mark Potts, Ann Livermore, Russ Daniels, Mark Perreira, Cheryl Rose Hayden, and Mike Jastrab.

Thanks to Progress Software's John Stewart, Stacey Redden, and Dore Trip Kucera; Jboss's Shaun Connoly; Oracle's Claire Dessaux; Microsoft's Jason Campbell; and SAP's Ramin Hummel.

Thanks to Starwood Hotel's Israel del Rio; Delaware Electric's Gary Cripps; NYSE's Firas Sammen, Whirlpool Corporation's Esat Sezer; ecenter solutions' Didier Beck and Nick Stefania, Helio's Brandon Behrstock and Rick Heineman; Jack Henry & Associates' Kevin Sligar, RLP Technologies' Norman Marks and Joe Lafeir, Schwarz Communications' Amy Burnis, Waggener Edstrom's Rob Schatz; and Burson-Marsteller's Lisa Newman.