Matt Brasier - Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

Matt Brasier is a professional services consultant with 10 years of experience tuning Enterprise Java applications. He has 9 years of experience working with Enterprise Java middleware, and has always focused on the performance aspects of application servers and SOA platforms. Matt has spoken at numerous technical conferences, including The Serverside Java Symposium and JUDCon .

Matt is the head of consulting at C2B2 Consulting Ltd., an independent middleware consultancy specializing in SOA and JEE, providing professional services on the leading Java middleware platforms. C2B2 is an Oracle Gold Partner with Application Grid Specialization.

I would like to thank my partner, Caroline, and our dog, Minstrel, for their understanding while I was writing this book, my father for encouraging me at the start, and C2B2 for giving me the time and experience necessary to do it.

Nicholas Wright is a Java middleware consultant and technical evangelist with 9 years of experience from Embedded C real-time systems to Enterprise Java. He has served on a Java Community Process Expert Group, and spoken at conferences across the world.

Nick is a senior consultant at C2B2 Consulting Ltd., where he works with a wide range of commercial and open source JEE and SOA middleware platforms.

I would like to thank my family, friends, and colleagues for whom I have disappeared off the face of the Earth while working on this book. For your patience and understanding, I thank you. Mostly I must thank my partner, Kay Louise, for putting up with my continual slaving over a computer whenever I have any spare time, love you.

Sandeep Phukan has more than 9 years of experience in Integration Technologies and Java. Sandeep currently works as a Senior Consultant with Anatas Technology Services, Sydney, a leader in next generation Enterprise Architecture Solutions. Earlier, Sandeep worked as a Technical Lead for Nokia Siemens Network R&D, Bangalore, assisting on the integration of Next Generation Unified Convergent Billing Systems based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.

Prior to this, Sandeep worked with Oracle SSI, Bangalore as a Senior Consultant, where his key involvement was Oracle AIA for Communications (Telco PIP). During this period he travelled to several countries around the world, aiding customers in developing customizations for Oracle AIA artifacts.

Sandeep is a certified Java Developer and has a keen interest in Low Bandwidth Transports and Distributed Algorithms. During his time at Oracle SSI, Sandeep was actively involved with the SSI Innovation Centre where he created a number of utility extensions to the Oracle SOA Suite. Sandeep also maintains an open source repository of several SOA utilities in the Google code repository http://code.google.com/p/soalabs/.

Sandeep is also an avid researcher in the area of SOA Governance. He has published a number of papers in the Oracle Technology Network (OTN) on technology neutral Designtime Dependency analysis of SOA Artifacts. One of his inventions on this subject (Graph Based Designtime Dependency Analysis) has recently been accepted for a Patent in the US Patents and Trademarks Office (USPTO).

I would like to thank my loving wife Aparupa for her patience during those late night researches, and my friends and colleagues at Anatas who were always there whenever I needed them.

Sylvain GROSJEAN is a principal Oracle Fusion Middleware consultant currently working as a freelancer in France.

Over the past 12 years, he collaborated with BEA, and then with Oracle Consulting as a solution architect and trainer helping multiple major French clients (Utilities, Transportation, Insurance, Healthcare, Telecom).

His primary focus is on Oracle Service Bus, Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle BPM, and ADF.

You can follow Sylvain through his own blog at http://sgrosjean.blogspot.com

Tumelo Mametsa is an Oracle Fusion Middleware expert currently consulting on various projects in South Africa and other African countries. He has over 10 years of experience in the Electronics and IT fields, respectively, with increasing level of responsibility. He is currently providing senior leadership for solutions architecture, enterprise architecture, business process engineering efforts, including SOA and Open Source Solutions for Africom IT Solutions.

His focus is on engineered systems using various technologies, primarily the Oracle Fusion Middleware Stack. He also provides training for Oracle on Oracle Fusion Middleware Products.

To my extended, supportive, loving Mametsa family (Mpho, Stlaks, Tshepo, Nunu, Letsie, Gontse), thanks for always being there for me. Much love to my darling wife Tsakani and kids, Tumisa, and Seetja. You guys make everything worthwhile. Thanks to my partners at Africom IT Solutions, you are the best team to work with by far. Much appreciation to all my friends (the Zoo) for individually supporting me in your unique ways, without you guys I would not be able to expertly juggle so many balls.