Acknowledgments


Many people have contributed to this book in many ways, both directly and indirectly over a period of two years. It is therefore impossible to list everybody who influenced, supported, or aided us on our journey from the initial idea to the final manuscript. Nevertheless, we owe our gratitude to at least the following people:

We would like to thank our publisher, Pearson Education, for the support that led to this book being completed. In particular, we would like to thank Paul Petralia, our editor, and Christy Hackerd.

The case studies in this book would not have been possible without extensive cooperation with SOA protagonists from different organizations. We would like to thank Uwe Bath (Deutsche Post), Fiorenzo Maletta (Winterthur), Claus Hagen (Credit Suisse), and Willie Nisbet and Allan Kelly (Halifax Bank of Scotland).

This book would also not have been possible without countless discussions and critical feedback of colleagues, friends, and reviewers. We extend our gratitude to Beat Aeschlimann, Arne Allee, Michael Aschenbrenner, Arnaud Blandin, Ndome Cacutalua, Frank Eversz, Dietmar Grubert, Stefan Havenstein, Georgia and Paul Hickey, Stefan Krahm, James McGovern, Dirk Marwinski, Manfred Mayer, Steve Morris, Ingrid Müller, Joanis Papanagnu, Arnold Pott, Kai Rannenberg, Kirsten Scharf, Uli Steck, Paul Stemmet, Michael Stevens, Harald Störrle, Peter Stracke, Josef Wagenhuber, and Frank Werres.

Sebastian-Svante Wellershoff contributed to the design of our artwork. Birgit Anders supported the author-team by proofreading, formatting, drawing figures, and many other activities that were necessary to produce a manuscript for this book. We all appreciated the accurate and swift manner in which she worked. Mark Roantree was our proofreader for linguistic and some of the technical aspects of this book.

Roland Tritsch and Joachim Quantz have both closely worked with the author team and developed many of the ideas that were presented in this book. They were like a virtual extension of the author team.

Last but not least, we owe our special gratitude to our partners, families, and friends for their patience, time, support, and encouragement. We know that we cannot make it up to you.



    Enterprise SOA. Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
    Enterprise SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture Best Practices
    ISBN: 0131465759
    EAN: 2147483647
    Year: 2003
    Pages: 142

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