Service Oriented Architecture Field Guide for Executives

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Writing this book has been a journey and a labor of love for both of us. This text is the result of years of developing and supporting service oriented solutions, working with our clients on their service oriented strategies, and countless hours of research. The strategies, frameworks, models, and guidelines outlined in this book are not theoretical. They are applied daily by us and the entire Web Age team in classrooms, server rooms, and boardrooms throughout North America and around the world.

Of course, this book could not have been written without the support of an incredible team behind us. Thanks are due to several people who supported the book as advisors and reviewers: Jason Bloomberg, Lisa Bromwell, Paul Curtis, Ron Schmeltzer, and Chris White. We would like to thank the entire Web Age team for helping us by reviewing early drafts and providing us with valuable insight and critical feedback as this book came together. Special thanks to Tapas Banerjee, Greg Wagner, and Gary Bilodeau at Web Age for being flexible and supportive of our limited availability during the months that we spent writing this book.

Bibhas would like to extend special thanks to Tapas Banerjee and Stephen Wheeler. Both are thinkers in the areas of large-scale software development and IT management. Their feedback during lengthy and rather one-sided conversations with Bibhas provided valuable input for the book.

Kyle would like to thank Jason Gordon for introducing him to Java and XML, ...