About the Reviewers
Tolulope Ayodele Adeniji is a seasoned Oracle Fusion Middleware consultant with specific expertise in integration, using JEE technologies and Oracle SOA Suite products. He has over 8 years of experience in the design, development, deployment, and administration of JEE-based applications and SOA-based systems in a mission-critical enterprise environment. He has been involved in several major integration projects in the telecoms domain. Tolulope is currently a senior consultant at Falcorp Technologies (Pty) Ltd, South Africa.
I would like to appreciate my family, especially my wife, for bearing with me during those odd evenings when I got glued to my computer and didn't participate in their conversations so that I could focus on reviewing this book.
Prudhvi Avuthu is very passionate about teaching and learning new technologies. Currently, he runs his own firm, erpSchools Inc, which provides online education on ERP technologies.
Prudhvi holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. After graduation, he worked in the US for various clients such as American Bar Association, Fellowes, Ventana Medical Systems, Roche, Bechtel, and Deloitte. Having worked in various roles, ranging from a consultant to a solution architect in Oracle ERP, Prudhvi moved back to India to accept a much more challenging role, project manager, in Zensar Technologies. After 3 years of work as a project manager in India, he moved on to become an entrepreneur by converting his online education portal, www.erpschools.com, founded in 2007, into a US-registered firm, erpSchools Inc, in 2013.
I would like to thank my wife, Haritha Gogineni, who happens to work in the same Oracle ERP technology, for sharing my regular work and thereby giving me ample time to review this book. I would also like to thank my uncle, Srinivas Bonthu, who has given me enough motivation to take bold steps in my career.
Gyan Darpan is a senior Oracle consultant, focusing on Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Fusion Middleware technologies. He has completed his Master's in Computer Applications as a topper from New Horizon College of Engineering, Bangalore, India. He is passionate about exploring new technologies, training, and mentoring. At present, he is based in Australia and is working for NEC, Australia. Prior to this, he worked for Polaris Software, EXL Services, Espire Infolab, Sapient Consulting, and Path Infotech. He started his career as a Java developer and moved to Oracle Stack. His expertise lies in Oracle SOA, Oracle ADF, OBIEE, ODI, Oracle E-Business Suite, OAF, and Java.
He is also the founder of the web startup, Querent Technologies (www.querenttech.com), which deals with software consulting, outsourcing, implementation, support, and training.
Gyan is actively involved in large implementations of next-generation enterprise applications, utilizing Oracle's JDeveloper, Application Development Framework (ADF), and SOA technologies. He has rich implementation expertise in EAI/SOA integrations, and has worked on some challenging projects across different verticals. He has strong team lead and communication skills and a deep technical knowledge covering both Oracle and Java.
Gyan is also an active member of OTN and is known as the Oracle Guru for his work on Oracle Technologies.
He can be contacted at his personal e-mail address at <gyan.ebs@gmail.com>.
You can also visit his LinkedIn profile at https://au.linkedin.com/pub/gyan-darpan-yadav/21/996/b30.
He likes to share his experiences by blogging on http://oraclefusionmate.blogspot.com.
I would like to specially thank my family and friends for their unconditional love and support.
I would also like to thank my managers who, throughout the years, have provided me with opportunities to work on new technologies and projects and take on challenging tasks.
Hans Forbrich is an Oracle ACE Director and the owner of Forbrich Consulting Ltd., an international Oracle partner and consultancy based in Alberta, Canada, since 2002. Hans has been using, administering, developing with, and consulting on Oracle products since 1984. As an Oracle University partner, he has been training organizations on the Oracle SOA Suite since 2008.
Hans has reviewed several SOA Suite books from Packt Publishing as well as a number of database-related books, and he is pleased to have been involved with this project.
John K. Murphy lives in the US and is a software industry veteran with more than 30 years of experience as a programmer and database administrator. A graduate from the University of West Virginia, he began writing computer games in the 1980s before pursuing a career as a computer consultant. Over the years, he has enjoyed developing software in most of the major languages for a wide variety of industries while striving to keep up with all the new technologies.
John has reviewed several books for Packt Publishing and is the author of DotNetNuke 5.4 Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
Prakash Jeya Prakash is an experienced middleware specialist with more than 10 years of experience in the middleware and integration space. He is currently a lead SOA architect working for a global consulting organization in the UK. Prakash holds a Master of Science degree in Software Engineering from BITS Pilani, Rajasthan, and he is also an Oracle certified SOA architect. He can be contacted via LinkedIn at http://uk.linkedin.com/in/prakashjeya/.
Thanks to my wife, Srividya Nambiar, who supported me in taking time off from our holidays to review a few chapters of this book.
Arun Ramesh has more than 9 years of IT experience and has been a forerunner in providing SOA-based integration solutions to customers across industries. He has been a part of some major IT consulting giants, globally. He has a niche portfolio of skills in integration-related technologies from multiple vendors. He is currently a solution architect specializing in SOA-based integrations using Oracle Fusion Middleware. He has been a part of major pioneering implementation milestones using Oracle Fusion Middleware, Oracle MDM, and Oracle AIA. He has also been instrumental in implementations using the Oracle stack, with the integration layer being Oracle AIA. He is an expert in complex and very large customizations in AIA PIPs and has been a frontrunner for one such challenging engagement for a telecoms major in Europe.
He has been a reviewer for various books on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle BPM. He is well known in the public domain for his technology blog on Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle AIA, which provide numerous technical tips, product reviews, code snippets, and solutions to other blogger queries.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank my wife, Aparna, who supported and encouraged me in this effort, in spite of all the times that it took me away from the family.
I would also like to thank all those who have helped me in some way to complete the review of this book and whose names I have failed to mention.
Dimitrios Stasinopoulos is a certified Application Development Framework Implementation specialist with more than 7 years of experience in Oracle Fusion Middleware. He currently works as an Oracle Fusion Middleware consultant. In his spare time, he maintains a blog, dstas.blogspot.com, where he posts his findings and ideas. Dimitrios holds a BSc degree in Computer Science from Technological Educational Institution of Larissa, Greece.