Sten E. Vesterli
About the Author
Sten E. Vesterli picked up Oracle development as his first job after graduating from the Technical University of Denmark, and he hasn't looked back since. He has worked with almost every development tool and server Oracle has produced in the last two decades, including Oracle ADF, JDeveloper, WebLogic, SQL Developer, Oracle Portal, BPEL, Collaboration Suite, Designer, Forms, Reports, and even Oracle Power Objects.
He started sharing his knowledge with a conference presentation in 1997, and has since given more than 100 conference presentations at Oracle OpenWorld, ODTUG, IOUG, UKOUG, DOAG, and other user group conferences around the world. His presentations are highly rated by the participants, and in 2010, he received the ODTUG Best Speaker award.
He has also written numerous articles, participated in podcasts, and has written the books Oracle Web Applications 101 , The McGraw-Hill Companies and Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple , Packt Publishing . You can find his blog at www.vesterli.com and follow him on Twitter as @stenvesterli
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Oracle has recognized Sten's skills as an expert communicator on Oracle technology by awarding him the prestigious title of Oracle ACE Director, which is carried by less than 100 people in the world. He is also an Oracle Fusion User Experience Advocate and is a part of the Oracle Usability Advisory Board and participates in the Oracle WebLogic Partner Council.
Based in Denmark, Sten is a partner in the Oracle consulting company Scott/Tiger, where he works as a Senior Principal Consultant. When not writing books or presenting, he is helping customers choose the appropriate technology for their needs, teaching, mentoring, and leading development projects. In his spare time, Sten enjoys triathlons, and he completed his first Ironman in 2012.
Acknowledgement
As an ADF enthusiast, I'd like to thank Oracle for finally making a free version of Oracle ADF available. With it's high productivity and advanced features, ADF Essentials has the potential to become the standard way of writing data-handling applications. With this book, I hope to help that become a reality.
Others have gone before me in the quest to get the combination of ADF Essentials, MySQL, and GlassFish to work together. I'd especially like to thank Markus Eisele, Duncan Mills, Chris Muir, Jobinesh Purushothaman, Bauke Scholtz, and Shay Shmeltzer, whose work with ADF, Apache Shiro, MySQL, and GlassFish I have benefited from.
I also appreciate the efforts of the people at Packt Publishing who have been supporting this project, as well as my reviewers who have improved the book with their excellent questions and suggestions.
Finally, I'd like to thank my lovely wife for her love, support, and understanding for yet another book project.
About the Reviewers
Eugene Fedorenko is a senior analyst with extensive experience and management skills. He works for the Ukrainian software company CS Integra. The company focuses on banking software and is a leader in the local market. The company has been an Oracle Platinum partner since 2010 and it was rewarded as the Best Independent Software Vendor in the Eastern Europe region. Eugene graduated from the Kharkiv Aviation Institute in 1999 with an M.Sc. in Computer Science. He began his career in the company in 2000 as a developer. Currently, he is a senior analyst and he is in charge of running projects connected to Oracle Application Development Framework. He is the author of the ADF practice blog http://adfpractice-fedor.blogspot.com and a member of the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group.
Amr Gawish is a Senior Oracle Fusion Middleware Consultant. He is a certified WebCenter Portal and Oracle SOA implementation specialist. He has over five years of experience with the Oracle Middleware stack. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Math and Computer Sciences from Al-Azhar University in Egypt, and he has been involved in many ADF, WebCenter, and SOA projects. He currently works at infoMENTUM, which is an Oracle Gold Partner and a leading company in Oracle Fusion Middleware, and it is the first company to be specialized in WebCenter (both Content and Portal) in the EMEA region. It's what Amr calls "a place where innovation comes true!"
Amr is also currently authoring a book about ADF Faces called Oracle ADF Faces Cookbook, Packt Publishing.
I'd like to thank my wife for helping and encouraging me to complete the review in time, and my daughter for always bringing a smile to my face.
Dimitrios Stasinopoulos is a Certified Application Development Framework Implementation Specialist with more than six years of experience in Oracle Fusion Middleware and, more specifically, in ADF BC 11 g . Dimitrios currently works as an Oracle Fusion Middleware Consultant, mainly focusing on Oracle ADF, at e-DBA Ltd., an Oracle Platinum Partner. Dimitrios has worked in several Oracle ADF projects in various positions, from developer to architect, and he also enjoys teaching and talking about Fusion Middleware.
In his spare time, Dimitrios is helping the ADF community by answering technical questions in the Oracle ADF and JDeveloper forum, and he also maintains a blog where he posts his findings and ideas: dstas.blogspot.com.
Dimitrios holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Science from the Technological Educational Institution of Larissa, Greece.
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