The Definitive Guide to SOA: Oracle® Service Bus, SECOND EDITION

Acknowledgments

Many people have helped me to make this book a reality. I want to thank my wife, Roberta, for her love and understanding as I spent hours on my computer, mumbling incoherently about "namespaces" and the like. There is no finer wife in the world. Similarly, I'd like to thank my children, Eric and Madeline, for putting up with my highly distracted nature while writing this book. Of course, I'd like to thank my parents and my aunt and uncle for enabling me to get to this point in my life with their constant love and support.

I'd like to thank Jay Kasi at Oracle for his help and tutelage while writing this book. I have never met a person with such a deep understanding of any software product in my life. Many times when I was stuck ...