Krishnaprem Bhatia - Getting Started with Oracle SOA B2B Integration: A Hands-On Tutorial

Krishnaprem Bhatia has over twelve years of experience in the Software Development, Product Management, and IT industry. He started working with Oracle in 2001 and since then he has been working in various aspects of enterprise software integration including application, business process, and B2B integration. He has extensive software development experience, building world class integration solutions using Oracle technologies. As a Product Manager for Oracle B2B, he has worked extensively with customers and partners worldwide to develop unique B2B solutions, for solving integration challenges in nearly all industry verticals. Through dozens of workshops, he has interacted with and trained hundreds of integration experts on Oracle B2B across North America, Europe, and Asia. He loves to read, workout at the gym, and also has a passion for traveling as he has been to more than 26 countries. He holds a B.S. (with Highest Honors) in Computer Science and Engineering from UC Davis and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

I would like to thank God for his help in every endeavor of my life. I want to thank my family who have been very positive and have supported me unconditionally. I would also like to thank all my customers, partners, and colleagues who have provided me with valuable knowledge, opportunities, and support.

Scott Haaland has over 20 years experience in the Software Development and IT industry. He started working in 1992 for Hewlett Packard, and then for the spinoff company from HP called Agilent Technologies. After branching out on his own with two different businesses, including a Software Consulting business, he also picked up many business management skills along the way as well. Most recently, Scott has joined Oracle in 2012 as a Principal Product Manager for the SOA Suite team, with a special emphasis on Oracle B2B. While working for Hewlett Packard as a Developer for their EDI Services team, Scott gained expertise in many different B2B standards, such as EDI X.12, TRADACOMMS, EDIFACT, and EIAJ. With the advent of Message Oriented Middleware and then the transition into Service Oriented Architecture, Scott continued to gain important Integration Architecture skills while at Agilent Technologies, where he helped to develop a Canonical model based on the OAGIS 8.0 specification for internal application to application integration using TIBCO technologies. Scott learned SOA Suite while providing consulting services, and helped his clients with a transition to a Service Oriented Architecture approach for integration using Oracle SOA Suite 11g. As a Product Manager for Oracle SOA Suite, his expertise in EDI, A2A, SOA, and B2B have proven invaluable towards the writing of this book. Scott enjoys spending time with his family, working on home improvement projects, working on cars, and volunteering at his church and in his community.

I would like to first thank Jesus Christ for being the source for everything good in my life. I would like to thank my family who have been positive and unconditionally supportive. I could not have achieved this nor anything else in my career without my beautiful wife Michele and her constant and untiring support for me. I would also like to thank my sons, Phillip and Andrew, who have sacrificed many weekends and evenings of daddy-time so that I could work on my writing. I would also like to thank my Mom and Dad, who provided an environment where my curiosity could develop as I was allowed try things and learn from my mistakes, and for always supporting me through the good and the bad times.

I would also like to thank my customers and colleagues who constantly challenge me to go to the next level of knowledge and service. A special thanks to my manager, Vikas Anand, for his constant coaching, mentoring, leadership by example, and for his support in my taking on this project.

Alan Perlovsky is a Senior Principal Consultant with Oracle's SOA/Fusion Middleware Practice and has been with Oracle for last five years where he is helping the Oracle Clients with the adoption of technologies such as Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), B2B, and security. After starting his career as an Enterprise Application Development in the early nineties, and until now, he has been lucky to be involved in many exciting projects such as 24x7 EDI and XML transaction Clearinghouse, the world's biggest HIPAA implementation to date, and Global Combat Support Systems that introduces cutting edge enabling technology in support of the US Marines logistics operations, among others.

No book can be written without taking help from someone. I would like to thank Janna, my beautiful wife, for her support and patience, my sons, Mike and Daniel, for inspiration. In addition, I would like to thank Boris Lublinsky for introduction to book writing, Steve Verba for providing valuable comments, and Teresa Short and Markus Reschberger for their help.

Prasanna Chandrashekhara is working as a Senior Development Manager in product development SOAB2B Integration. He has worked as one of the core Developers for Oracle B2B and Oracle SOA for healthcare and he has been with the product since Oracle B2B 10g.

He has around 13 years of Industry experience specializing around 9 years in trading partner integration and product development.

Ankit Pradhan is a Solution Architect with more than 10 years of experience in the design and implementation of large scale Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and SOA-based solutions for major financial and telecom companies in USA and EMEA region.