About the Author

B. M. Madhusudhan Rao, alias name James Smith (Author of James Smith's Technology Blogs), has more than 15 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. He has been a TOGAF 9 Enterprise Architecture certified solution specialist at Oracle's North America Technology Organization for more than 5 years. He works primarily around Service Oriented Architecture, Business Process Management, Webcenter Portal, Webcenter Content, and Enterprise Architecture Practice. He is a part of the Tech-Sales team that showcases various customer proof of concepts and demonstrations to meet the customers' business challenges and requirements.

Before joining Oracle, Madhu was a Technical Manager at HCL Technologies in India. He is known as James for his blog James Smith's Java and Oracle Blogs, which is very popular among techies. Last year, in 2012, his blog jamessmith73.wordpress.com had over 74,000, hits making it one of the top technology blogs.

Madhu lives in Bangalore,India with his parents, wife, and little daughter Aishwarya Rao, and loves nature photography.