Ravi Saraswathi - Oracle SOA BPEL Process Manager 11gR1 – A Hands-on Tutorial

This book would not have been possible without my wife Priya, who supported me on all those weekends and managed my work and life together. I would like to thank my children, Pritika and Vishnu, my mother Saraswathiamma, and my brother Reji for supporting my efforts in writing this book. I also thank my co-author and dear friend, Jaswant Singh for his contribution, support, and confidence throughout the writing process.

Jaswant Singh brings over 16 years of experience as an Executive Information Technologist with multiple industry verticals. Jaswant presently assists Fortune 1000 CXOs in creating, implementing, and managing technology strategy and roadmaps to gain efficiencies over existing capabilities and build new capabilities economically. As a CTO, he has co-founded Suchna! , a web portal linking people worldwide.

Jaswant has expertise in Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), cloud computing, big data, middleware technologies, and web architectures. He is also an expert in Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery (BCDR), Data Center migration and consolidation, and web applications security. He is known for building and leveraging cross-functional working relationships, mentoring, and problem solving for large global multi-organization environments across Asia Pacific, Europe, and North America.

Jaswant has been a recognized industry leader on emerging technologies at various professional trade conferences, companies, and educational institutes. He has been bestowed upon with various awards for outstanding performance, top talent, technological innovations, and technical publications. Jaswant blogs at http://techblog.baghel.com.

Jaswant received his CIO Certification from Federal CIO University, General Services Administration, United States. He received his M.S. degree in Technology Management from School of Management, George Mason University, and his M.S. degree in Mathematics with specialization in Operations Research and Statistics from Department of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay. He served as the President of a cultural student body at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay.

I would like to thank my wife Mita for putting up with my writing sessions over weekends and late nights. I would also like to express deep gratitude towards my parents Ms. Kamla Devi and Mr. Jagram Singh for putting up with scaling down the summer outings.

I would also like to thank all of the mentors and mentees that I've had over the years. Last but not least, I would like to pay my sincere thanks to my dear friend and co-author Mr. Ravi Saraswathi.

Mehmet Demir is a TOGAF-certified enterprise architect with 15+ years of experience in designing systems for large companies. He has hands-on experience in developing and implementing SOA-based solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware, WebCenter Portal, WebCenter Content, BEA WebLogic/AquaLogic product technologies, and Oracle Identity Access Management Suite. As an Oracle-certified SOA Architect, IBM-certified SOA Designer, BEA-certified Architect, and an Oracle WebCenter 11 g -certified Implementation Specialist, Mehmet focuses on developing high-quality solutions using best practices.

He is currently working for EPAM Canada as an Enterprise Architect delivering high-value IT solutions to many of Canada's most prominent companies such as CIBC, Home Hardware, and Bell TV. Prior to EPAM, Mehmet worked for BEA Systems where he had been a principle member of the Canadian consulting team.