Fiorini S. - Mastering jBPM6

Simone Fiorini is a seasoned professional with 20 years of software development experience, specializing in large-scale software systems, mission critical applications, and project management in a wide variety of computing environments and platforms, with a focus on EAI, BPM, and integration-oriented tools. His latest efforts are focused on an online reservation system for a large Middle East railway company and a scalable, reactive, financial market data server for a leading Italian banking group's investment bank.

A graduate of both Universit di Parma (earth science) and University of Milan (engineering of computing systems), Simone resides near Brescia, where he's trying to grow roses and other fragrant flowers for his wife, Giuliana, and their two sons.

I'd like to thank my wife, Giuliana, and my sons as they support everything I do any way I do it, my parents, my brothers, and all the people who made this book possible.

Arun V Gopalakrishnan has more than 9 years of experience in creating architecture, designing, and developing enterprise applications used in the domains of BFSI, supply chain management, and telecom businesses.

He graduated as a bachelor of technology in electronics and communications and holds a master's degree in software systems. Currently, he is playing the role of a software architect in designing and developing an enterprise middleware platform.

He is well versed in service-oriented, event-driven architectures and has experience in integrating jBPM with enterprise architecture. He is passionate about learning new technologies and improving his knowledge base and expertise in JEE, OOAD, SOA, EDA, expert systems, and distributed computing.

Along with this technical expertise, he enjoys engineering software applications and is an avid follower, practitioner, and mentor of agile and continuous delivery models. He believes in tools and is well versed in creating, using, and extending DevOps tools, such as Eclipse, Maven, Git, Gerrit, Jenkins, Sonar, JIRA, and MediaWiki, to enhance the efficiency of development teams.

First and foremost, I would like to thank the editors Vinay Argekar, Sweny Sukumaran, Tanmayee Patil, and Anand Singh for their immense support and help in getting this book ready for publishing. They made the process smooth and enjoyable and were patient and cheerful with those painful follow-ups when I missed deadlines. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the technical reviewers, Federico Weisse, Jernimo Ginzburg, and Ruben Andres Ghio, for their feedback, which helped shape this book.

Authoring a book with an already tight regular job always calls for long weeks. Without my supportive family, I could not have taken yet another step in my career.

My mentors and colleagues were always my source of confidence and energy. I would like to thank them for the knowledge, experience, and goodwill that they share with me. It has always been great working with you.

Sincere gratitude goes to the open source community, particularly the jBPM community, which has supported me a lot in understanding technologies and tools. I am grateful for working with them and hope that their members will find this book useful!

To the Almighty, for surrounding me with these beautiful people and enjoyable opportunities.

Ruben Andres Ghio was born on June 5, 1981, under the zodiac sign of Gemini in the city of Quilmes, Argentina. When he was 2 years old, he moved to Villa Gesell, a small city over the sea. This place was his home for almost 11 years. After that, he returned to Buenos Aires, where he got a high school degree with a specialization in economics.

At the age of 22, he graduated as a system engineer from the National Technological University of Buenos Aires.

As a River Plate fan, Ruben has practiced a lot of different sports, but he has always had special feelings for his two favorites: tennis and soccer, which he still practices. You can follow him on Twitter at @rubenghio.

Ruben has been working with technology since 2002, starting as a Visual Basic developer for one of the most important banks in Argentina. After 2.5 years, he moved to one of the biggest technology companies in the world, where he started working as a Java developer, and after almost 3 years, he started to focus on his career as an IT architect, a skill he developed for the next 4 years. Currently, he is working as a senior IT architect at one of the biggest open source companies in the world, developing and building modern and innovative projects for government and private companies across Latin America.

I would like to thank my wife, who always supports me in all the things I do, suggesting, encouraging, and helping me out.

Jernimo Ginzburg works at Red Hat as a senior architect in the consulting team. He has a computer science degree from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and over 15 years of experience in developing Java Enterprise applications. He is a strong believer in open source and agile software development. Jernimo joined Red Hat in 2008 and, since then, has helped many Latin American companies adopt Drools and jBPM. He has co-written several software engineering articles published in refereed conferences and journals, and he was also the technical reviewer for the book jBPM Developer Guide , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank my beautiful wife, Mariana, and my newborn son, Ramiro, for their love, patience, and support during this revision.

Federico Weisse