Acknowledgments

This book was in development for over three years, a good portion of which was dedicated to external reviews. Patterns were subjected to three review cycles that spanned a period of over twelve months and involved over 200 IT professionals. Pre-release galleys of my first and second manuscript drafts were printed and shipped to SOA experts and patterns experts around the world. Additionally, I had the full manuscript published at SOAPatterns.org for an open industry review. Even though these review phases added much time and effort to the development of this book, they ultimately elevated the quality of this work by a significant margin.

Special thanks to Prentice Hall for their patience and support throughout the book development process. Specifically, I’d like to thank Kristy Hart and Jake McFarland for their tremendous production efforts and tireless commitment to achieving printed perfection, Mark Taub who stood by this book project through a whirlwind of changes, reviews, more changes, extensions, and delays, Stephane Nakib and Heather Fox for their on-going guidance, and Eric Miller for his assistance with publishing the online review version of the first manuscript draft. I am fortunate to be working with the best publishing team in the industry.

Special thanks also to Herbjörn Wilhelmsen, Martin Fowler, Ralph Johnson, Bobby Woolf, Grady Booch, Gregor Hohpe, Baptist Eggen, Dragos Manolescu, Frank Buschmann, Wendell Ocasio, and Kevin Davis for their guidance and uninhibited feedback throughout the review cycles.

My thanks and gratitude to the following reviewers that participated in one or more of the manuscript reviews (in alphabetical order by last name):

Mohamad Afshar, Oracle

Sanjay Agara, Wipro

Stephen Bennett, Oracle

Steve Birkel, Intel

Brandon Bohling, Intel

Grady Booch, IBM

Bryan Brew, Booz Allen Hamilton

Victor Brown, CMGC

Frank Buschmann, Siemens

Enrique G. Castro-Leon, Intel

Peter Chang, Lawrence Technical University

Jason “AJ” Comfort, Booz Allen Hamilton

John Crupi, JackBe

Veronica Gacitua Decar, Dublin City University

Ed Dodds, Conmergence

Kevin P. Davis, PhD

Dominic Duggan, Stevens Institute of Technology

Baptist Eggen, Dutch Department of Defense

Steve Elston, Microsoft

Dale Ferrario, Sun Microsystems

Martin Fowler, ThoughtWorks

Pierre Fricke, Red Hat

Chuck Georgo, Public Safety and National Security

Larry Gloss, Information Manufacturing

Al Gough, CACI International Inc.

Daniel Gross, University of Toronto

Robert John Hathaway III, SOA Object Systems

William M. Hegarty, ThoughtWorks

Gregor Hohpe, Google

Ralph Johnson, UIUC

James Kinneavy, University of California

Robert Laird, IBM

Doug Lea, Oswego State University of New York

Canyang Kevin Liu, SAP

Terry Lottes, Northrop Grumman Mission Systems

Chris Madrid, Microsoft

Anne Thomas Manes, Burton Group

Dragos Manolescu, Microsoft

Steven Martin, Microsoft

Joe McKendrick

J.D. Meier, Microsoft

David Michalowicz, MITRE Corporation

Per Vonge Nielsen, Microsoft

Wendell Ocasio, DoD Military Health Systems, Agilex Technologies

Philipp Offermann, University of Berlin

Dmitri Ossipov, Microsoft

Prasen Palvakar, Oracle

Parviz Peiravi, Intel

Nishit Rao, Oracle

Ian Robinson, ThoughtWorks

Richard Van Schelven, Ericsson

Shakti Sharma, Sysco Corp

Don Smith, Microsoft

Michael Sor, Booz Allen Hamilton

John Sparks, Western Southern Life

Sona Srinivasan, CISCO

Linda Terlouw, Ordina

Phil Thomas, IBM

Steve Vinoski, IEEE

Herbjörn Wilhelmsen, Objectware

Peter B. Woodhull, Modus21

Bobby Woolf, IBM

Farzin Yashar, IBM

Markus Zirn, Oracle

Olaf Zimmermann, IBM

There were many more individuals who directly or indirectly supported this effort. Amidst the flurry of correspondence over the past three years, I was unable to keep track of all participants. If you were part of the SOA design patterns project and you don’t see your name on this list, then do contact me via www.thomaserl.com.