Web Services Platform Architecture: SOAP, WSDL, WS-Policy, WS-Addressing, WS-BPEL, WS-Reliable Messaging, and More

Acknowledgments

This book is the result of the contributions of numerous people. We would especially like to acknowledge and pay tribute to our many colleagues in IBM, too numerous to mention individually, who work alongside us in this fascinating area on a daily basis and whose innovation and stimulus have been a significant factor in making Web services a reality. Within that group of people, we would particularly like to thank Bob Sutor, Karla Norsworthy, Diane Jordan, Dan House, and Greg Clarke, who worked tirelessly in helping to bring this work to the world at large in the form of specifications and standards.

We would like to thank Eric Newcomer of IONA Technologies, Daniel Edgar of Portland General Electric, Ronald Schmelzer of ZapThink ...