SOA for the Business Developer-Concepts, BPEL, and SCA, First Edition

Ben Margolis

with Joseph Sharpe

MC Press Online, LP

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First Printing-April 2007

© 2007 Ben Margolis.

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Acknowledgements

Our thanks to the many people who worked on this book - in particular, to Ralph Earle, whose technical edits helped set the tone; to Bob Cancilla, whose extensive scenario gave a practical focus; and to Orly Margolis, whose illustrations and day-to-day assistance contributed much.

We thank these core experts by subject area:

• BPEL: Dieter Koenig, Simon D. Moser, and Thomas Schulze

• SCA: Michael Beisiegel, Daniel Berg, David Booz, Jean-Sebastien Delfino, Mike Edwards, Simon Nash, and Devang Parikh

• SDO: Stephen Brodsky, Frank Budinsky, Brent H. Daniel, Kelvin Goodson, Fuhwei Lwo, Shawn Moe, Daniel Murphy, Edward Slattery, Kevin Williams, and Geoffrey Winn

• Web services: Daniel R. Bruce, Russell Butek, Christopher B. Ferris, Heiko Ludwig, Marcia L. Stockton, Andre Tost, and Greg Truty

• XML and XPath: Anders Berglund, Scott Boag, David Marston, and Henry Zongaro

Tim W. Wilson's insight into computer languages accounts for the book's deep foray into BPEL 2.0, Jeri Petersen's reviews were thorough as ever, and Hayden Lindsey's support and guidance were essential. Special thanks go to Susan LaFera, with a smile for Valentin Baciu, Grady Booch, Mike J. Brown, Wendy Butt, Jim Colson, Francisco Curbera, Leigh Davidson, Klaus Deinhart, Steve Graham, Matt Heitz, Sridhar Iyengar, Sam Kaipa, Rania Khalaf, Stephen J. Kinder, Henry Koch, Grant J. Larsen, Matthew Oberlin, Bob Schloss, Robert Will, Tara Woodman, and Jim Zhang; and for the folks at MC Press, especially copyeditor Katie Tipton.