About the Reviewers

Jelle de Bruin is a very experienced IT consultant. Having started his career on mainframe systems, he moved to the Java world at the end of the last century. In 2007, he joined the professional services department of BEA Systems Netherlands. During his time at BEA and later at Oracle, he worked extensively in customer facing assignments with the AquaLogic Service Bus or the Oracle Service Bus as it is now called. Although he has extensive knowledge and experience with other Oracle Fusion Middleware products, the Service Bus has become his specialty.

Now, he is working as an independent consultant on a variety of projects, ranging from enterprise architecture to working with Oracle Fusion Middleware products. In his role as an independent consultant, he is still asked by Oracle to help them out on occasions.

Matthias Furrer has been working in different roles for more than 20 years in IT. Throughout his career he worked as an application developer, consultant, and architect in many complex integration projects. Now, he is working as a senior consultant for Trivadis—a leading solution provider for infrastructure engineering, application development, and business intelligence operating in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.

Peter van Nes is an Oracle Fusion Middleware consultant and works within a partnership of the Oracle SOA Specialized Gold Partner, The Future Group. In 1991, he started his career as a Systems Management consultant and changed his focus in 2005 to Oracle products and Java. In his current assignment, he mainly develops BPEL processes and OWSM security pipelines for an international financial services provider, and, as a senior developer, he is actively involved in the migration to 11g SOA Suite, using BPEL and OSB. In addition, Peter contributes to the Oracle community by blogging on his website, http://www.petervannes.nl.