The authors would like to thank the Oracle SOA Suite 11g development and product management teams, and the leadership team of David Shaffer, Amlan Debnath, Hasan Rizvi, and Thomas Kurian for their vision, strategy, and creation of the industry-leading SOA and process-enabling software suite that was used in this book. The work presented here has substantially benefited from the input and feedback of many, including members of the business integration software product management group, nearly a thousand training attendees within and outside of Oracle, and the instructors who delivered the training to them. We would like to mention specifically the direct contributions of Deb Ayers, Jeff Hutchins, Mihai Munteanu, and Lloyd Williams who provided some of the lab content. In addition, we would like to thankfully acknowledge the help received from Sheila Cepero and Todd Adler in handling all the necessary legal steps within Oracle associated with the publishing of this book.
The publishing team at Packt Publishing was wonderful to work with—the enthusiasm, promptness, and guidance of James Lumsden and Aanchal Kumar throughout the evolution of this book are particularly worthy of mention.
And, finally, we would expressly like to thank our families for their love and support as we took on the challenge of putting this book together on top of our already very busy schedules and borrowed heavily from the invaluable family time.