Naveen Balani works as a Software Architect with IBM India Software Labs (ISL). He leads the design and development activities for WebSphere Business Services Fabric product out of ISL Mumbai. He has over nine years of industrial experience and has architected and implemented large scale enterprise solutions.
Naveen Balani likes to research upcoming technologies and is a Master Author with IBM developerWorks having written over 60 plus publications, on topics such as Web services, ESB, JMS, SOA, architectures, open source frameworks, semantic Web, J2ME, pervasive computing, Spring, Ajax, and various IBM products. He started working with web services way back in 2001 and proposed the first MVC web services-based pattern (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/ws-mvc/) in 2002.
Naveen Balani's articles on Spring Series (http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-spring1/) were rated as the top articles in the last 10 years for developerWorks web architecture zone. He has co-authored books on Spring framework (http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTitle/Beginning-Spring-Framework-2.productCd-047010161X.html) and Multiple IBM Redbooks on WebSphere Business Services Fabric and BPM 6.2 Product deployments. You can reach him on his website—http://soaweb.co.in
Rajeev Hathi is a J2EE Consultant and Developer living in Mumbai, India. He grew up in a joint Hindu family and pursued his primary education in the field of Economics and Commerce. His hobbies are watching sports and listening to rock music. His favorite bands are Pink Floyd and Dire Straits.
Rajeev has written several articles for IBM developerWorks portal. His major contributions are in the fields of Java, web service, and DB2. He developed an interest in computers after pursuing a diploma in Advanced Systems Management at NIIT (National Institute of Information Technology).
Rajeev has been working on J2EE-based projects for more than ten years now. He has worked with several companies offering software services and conducted various knowledge sessions on Java and J2EE. He has attained several Java-based certifications such as SCJP, SCWCD, SCBCD, and SCEA. He, along with the co-author Naveen Balani, has initiated a portal http://soaweb.co.in which aims to provide online consulting on the subject of web services.