Alexandre Alves - Getting Started with Oracle Event Processing 11g

Alexandre Alves has over 12 years of experience in software development working for large companies, such as IBM and Oracle. He has worked with network management, CORBA, JEE, web services, OSGi, BPEL, CEP, and middleware technologies in general. He is the co-author of the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification, co-author of BPEL for Java specification, author of the OSGi in Depth book, and a steering committee member of the Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS).

I would like to thank my family for giving me the support I needed to continue my work regardless of all other problems that life throws at you. I would like to thank my sons, Gabriel and Lucas, for providing for the fun-filled book-writing breaks, and understanding when I was in the book-writing, no-breaks (as they saw it) mode. I would like to especially thank Juliana, my wife-to-be, for her unyielding support, her caring, and especially for her lifelong understanding. For you, all is worth. Words put into a book are everlasting, so is our love.

Finally, I would like to thank my excellent co-authors and colleagues at Oracle for giving me the material and the experience I needed for writing this book.

Robin J. Smith , as a Product Management/Strategy Director at Oracle Corporation, is responsible for the Event Driven Architecture and Complex Event Processing technologies, focused on the evolution and delivery of the award winning and innovative Oracle Event Processing product, a corner-stone technology of the Oracle Event Driven Architecture strategy. Previously at BEA Systems, he successfully delivered the BEA WebLogic Event Server, the industry's first and only EDA CEP Java Application Server based on an exposed customized OSGi framework. At Sun Microsystems, as a software Product Line Manager for 8 years, he focused on the product management and marketing for the core SOA technologies, Netscape Process Manager and the award-winning Sun Java Studio Enterprise, a visual development and infrastructure environment focused on SOA, UML design tools and Java application profiling techniques. Over his career, Robin has worked in all of the major computing domains acquiring expertise as an architect for a leading Universal Content Management System and designed, engineered and implemented unique performance and systems management software for the Java Platform, AS/400, and VM Operating systems that have been used worldwide.

My deepest thanks to Phil Wilmshurst, who after a chat in the Bowlers Arms in Margate recommended me for my first computing job, starting a career at a young age which has now taken me around the world and to my computing successes in Silicon Valley, California. To Mike Leamer, who as a friend and manager motivated me to learn more and guided me to excel in my programming efforts in London. To the team at VM Software Inc., who gave me my "Famous for Fifteen Minutes" time when they purchased my unique VMMonitor product and finally, my family that inspires me to leap out of bed each morning and enjoy my continuing computing days of adventure, at my office in Redwood Shores, just south of the beautiful San Francisco.

Lloyd Williams has over 17 years of experience in the software development and IT industry. Lloyd graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1995 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) specializing in Management Information Systems and Operations Management. He then moved to California to start consulting in the telecommunications industry. Since then, he has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies around the globe in every industry. Lloyd's experience ranges from large telecommunications and automotive projects working with global systems integrators to leading the development of small event-driven RFID solutions at a small start-up.

He is currently an outbound product manager working for Oracle within the Business Integration team of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. He works with customers around the globe developing solutions that integrate Oracle Event Processing with SOA and BPM solutions.

I would like to thank my friends and family for their support, patience and help in producing this book as well as during many late nights and weekends working on many software development projects. I would like to thank my managers throughout the years who have provided me with opportunities to learn new skills and take on challenging tasks, as well as many clients and colleagues whom have provided invaluable opportunities for me to expand my knowledge and shape my career.

Jeffrey Myers holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Michigan, where he studied energy transfer mechanisms in proteins and developed new experimental techniques in ultrafast optics. He has over 10 years of experience in experimental design, algorithm development, and data analysis. In his professional career, he has utilized relational databases and complex event processing to provide innovative analytic solutions. Dr. Myers currently works as an engineer with Northrop Grumman. His technical interests include pattern recognition, machine learning, sensors, and Big Data analytics.

Ahmet Fuat Sungur has 6 years of experience in working with Oracle products. Since 2008 he has been working in Telecommunication Industry. In his professional career, data processing technologies are his favorite subjects. He participated in several business intelligence-oriented applications, which was developed by using Java and Oracle technologies. Software architecture, distributed processing, Big Data and NoSQL databases are his other main interests. He has attended many national and international technical congresses as a speaker.