SOA Manifesto Authors

Dr. Ali Arsanjani is CTO of SOA Emerging Technologies within IBM Global Services. He leads a team responsible for developing worldwide competency in SOA and increasing delivery excellence of SOA solutions using IBM and non-IBM tools and SOA offerings, most of which he has co-developed. He is resonsible for IBM vision, strategy and execution of that strategy in the SOA space of emerging technologies and SOA offerings. He is a hands-on, sought-after architect around the world on IBM's largest accounts. To accomplish this Dr. Arsanjani works with IBM Software Group, Research as well as other part sof IBM Global Business Services to delivery SOA SOlutions for clients using IBM tools, technologies and latest SOA offerings. In his role as Chief Architect for the SOA and Web Services Center of Excellence within IBM Global Services, he and his team specialize in harvesting and developing best-practices for the modeling, analysis, design and implementation of SOA and Web Services. He leads the internal IBM worldwide SOA & Web Services Community of Practice (6000+ members) and is the principal author of the (Service-oriented Modeling and Architecture) SOMA method for SOA as well as other assets, offerings and tools around SOA. He has been focusing on SOA Tooling with an extension and plug-in to Rational Software Architect called SOMA Modeling environment (SOMA-ME) which provide tooling support for IBM's SOA Methods and assets for SOA Solution development. This has been described in the August 2008 edition of the IBM Systems Journal. Dr. Arsanjani is engaged in developing SOA competency around the world in multiple industries and countries, working not only to develop teams to support the deployment of IBM tools and assets in the SOA space, but also to engage on a day to day basis with IBM's largest clients. Dr. Arsanjani not only works in executing a global strategy for GBS but also works to assess and develop tools to support IBM's offerings. He represents IBM in standards bodies such as The Open Group and is responsible for co-leading the SOA Reference Architecture and SOA Maturity Model standards within that body. Inside of IBM he leads research efforts in emerging technologies, tools and consulting offerings that combine services with the software required to successfully deliver those services, effectively, in a scalable and repeatable fashion across the world

Grady Booch is recognized internationally for his innovative work on software architecture, collaborative development environments, and software engineering. A renowned visionary, he has devoted his life's work to improving the art and science of software development. Grady served as Chief Scientist of Rational Software Corporation since its founding in 1981 and through its acquisition by IBM in 2003. He now is part of the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, serving as Chief Scientist for Software Engineering. There he continues his work on the Handbook of Software Architecture but also mentors and leads various software engineering projects that are beyond the constraints of immediate product horizons. Grady continues to engage with real customers working on very real problems and is working to build deep relationships with academia and other research organizations around the world. Grady is one of the original authors of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and was also one of the original developers of several of Rational's products. Grady has served as architect and architectural mentor for numerous complex software-intensive systems around the world in just about every domain imaginable. Grady is the author of six best-selling books, including the UML Users Guide and the seminal Object-Oriented Analysis with Applications. He writes a regular column on architecture for IEEE Software. Grady has published several hundred articles on software engineering, including papers published in the early '80s that originated the term and practice of object-oriented design (OOD), plus papers published in the early 2000's that originated the term and practice of collaborative development environments (CDE). Grady is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR). He is an IBM Fellow, an ACM Fellow, a World Technology Network Fellow, a Software Development Forum Visionary, a recipient of Dr. Dobb's Excellence in Programming award as well as three Jolt Awards, and generally just a really nice and gentle fellow. Grady was a founding board member of the Agile Alliance, the Hillside Group, and the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects, and now also serves on the advisory board of the International Association of Software Architecture. Additionally, Grady serves on the board of Iliff School of Theology. He is also a member of the IEEE Software editorial board. Grady helped establish work at the Computer History Museum for the preservation of classic software and therein has conducted several oral histories for luminaries such as John Backus and Fred Brooks. Grady received his bachelor of science from the United States Air Force Academy in 1977 and his master of science in electrical engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara in 1979.

Dr. Toufic Boubez is a well-respected SOA and Web services pioneer. He is a Certified SOA Trainer for SOA Systems Inc., the founder of SOA Craftworks, and was the founder and CTO of Layer 7 Technologies, one of the most successful vendors in SOA Governance and Security. Prior to Layer 7, he was the Chief Architect for Web Services at IBM's Software Group, and the Chief Architect for the IBM Web Services tools. At IBM, he founded the first SOA team and drove IBM's early XML and Web Services strategies. As part of his early SOA activities, he co-authored the original UDDI specification, and co-authored a service description language that was a precursor to WSDL. His current activities span SOA Security, SOA Governance and the impact of Cloud Computing. Toufic is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences, including XML-One and WebServices-One. He has also been actively involved with various standards organizations such as OASIS, W3C and WS-I. He was the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification, and the co-author of the OASIS WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation specifications. He has also participated on the OASIS WS-Security, SAML and UDDI Technical Committees. He is the author of many publications and several books, including "Building Web Services with Java" and the upcoming titles "SOA Governance" and "SOA Security: Practices, Patterns, and Technologies for Securing Services". InfoWorld named him to its "Ones to Watch" list in 2002, and CRN named him a Technology Innovator for 2004. Dr. Boubez holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.

Dr. Paul C. Brown is a software and systems architect with a deep background in the design of distributed information systems. His early work focused on fault-tolerant real-time monitoring and safety systems. Subsequent work on distributed decision support systems evolved into a more general interest in the design of event-driven distributed systems using model-based design methodologies. His model-based tool architectures are the foundation of a diverse family of applications that design distributed control systems, process control interfaces, internal combustion engines, and NASA satellite missions. Extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems led Dr. Brown to recognize that service-oriented architectures inherently structure both business processes and information systems. This led to the concept of Total Architecture: that business processes and information systems must be architected together. The Total Architecture approach has proved itself building numerous information systems for global enterprises and the Fortune-500. Dr. Brown has authored a pair of books on Total Architecture from Addison Wesley: 'Succeeding with SOA: Realizing Business Value through Total Architecture'; and 'Implementing SOA: Total Architecture in Practice'. Dr. Brown received his BS in Electrical Engineering from Union College, and his MS and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He is presently a Principal Software Architect at TIBCO Software Inc.

David Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation, and is driving the vision for the convergence of Oracle's SOA, Grid, and Cloud initiatives. Chappell has 25 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles in leading edge architecture, and spends much of his time of late working with IT leaders to define new strategies for Service Oriented Applications that scale reliably and predictably in corporate cloud environments. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), service grid, the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards. As author of several books including the O'Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of service infrastructure. He has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. Most recently, David contributed patterns to the book SOA Design Patterns pertaining to SOA grid technology. David is also currently working on a separate title dedicated to grid and cloud-enabled service-oriented architecture, a topic he has already written extensively about. Other books David has authored include "Java Web Services" (O'Reilly), "The Java Message Service" (O'Reilly), "Professional ebXML Foundations" (Wrox Press). Chappell and his works have received many industry awards including the "Java™ Technology Achievement Award" from JavaPro magazine for "Outstanding Individual Contribution to the Java Community", and the CRN Magazine "Top 10 IT leaders" award for "casting larger-than-life shadow over the industry". David blogs at http://blogs.oracle.com/DavidChappell

John deVadoss leads the Patterns & Practices team at Microsoft. His responsibilities include platform and architecture strategy for the developer tools and the application platform. He has over 15 years of experience in the software industry; he has been at Microsoft for over 10 years, all of it in the enterprise space – as a consultant, as a program manager in the distributed applications platform division, as an architect working with some of Microsoft's key partners, director of architecture strategy and most recently leading technical strategy for the application platform. Prior to Microsoft he spent many years as a technology consultant in the financial services industry in Silicon Valley. His areas of interest are broadly in distributed application architectures, data and metadata, systems management and currently on edge architectures (both services and access), but most of all in creating business value from technology investments. John has a BE in Computer Engineering, and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also did graduate work towards a PhD in Computer Science - which he hopes to complete at some point in the future.

Thomas Erl is the world's top-selling SOA author, series editor of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl (www.soabooks.com), and editor of the SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With over 100,000 copies in print world-wide, his books have become international bestsellers and have been formally endorsed by senior members of major software organizations, such as IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, Intel, SAP, CISCO, and HP. Two of his five books, SOA Design Patterns and SOA Principles of Service Design, were authored in collaboration with the IT community and have contributed to the definition of the service-oriented architectural model and service orientation as a distinct paradigm. Thomas is currently working with over 20 authors on eight new books dedicated to service-oriented computing and modern service technology platforms, such as cloud computing. In cooperation with SOASchool.com™, Thomas has helped develop the curriculum for the internationally recognized SOA Certified Professional accreditation program (www.soaschool.com), which has established a series of formal, vendor-neutral SOA certifications. Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), a company specializing in vendor-neutral SOA consulting and training services. Thomas is the chair of the SOA Education Committee and oversees the SOAPatterns.org initiative, a community site dedicated to the on-going development of a master pattern catalog for SOA. He has toured over 20 countries as a speaker and instructor for public and private events, and regularly participates in SOA Symposium and Gartner conferences. Over 100 articles and interviews by Thomas have been published in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal and CIO Magazine. For more information, visit: www.thomaserl.com.

Nicolai Josuttis (www.josuttis.com) is an independent system architect, technical manager, author, and consultant. He is an experienced expert for bringing SOA strategies into operation. As a key player for the SOA realization at well-known major companies in Europe, he works, speaks and writes with authority (being the author of 'SOA in Practice', 'The C++ Standard Library' and 'C++ Templates'). With his partner, Jutta Eckstein, expert for agility in large and global systems, you will find two world-leading experts for the successful realization of large and distributed IT projects (see IT-communication.com).

Dirk Krafzig has been dealing with the challenges of enterprise IT and distributed software architectures throughout his entire working life. He devoted himself to SOA in 2001 when he joined Shinka Technologies, a start-up company and platform vendor in the early days of XML-based Web services. Since then, Dirk has acquired a rich set of real world experience with this upcoming new paradigm both from the view point of a platform vendor and from the perspective of software projects in different industry verticals. Writing the book Enterprise SOA was an issue of personal concern to him as it provided the opportunity to share his experiences and many insights into the nature of enterprise IT with his readers. Today, Dirk works for SOAPARK, applying the guiding principles outlined in this book. Dirk has a Ph.D. in Natural Science and an MSc in Computer Science. He is married, farther of two kids, and lives in Dusseldorf, Germany.

Mark Little was Chief Architect, Transactions for Arjuna Technologies Ltd, a UK-based company specialising in the development of reliable middleware that was recently acquired by JBoss, Inc. Before Arjuna, Mark was a Distinguished Engineer/Architect within HP Arjuna Labs in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, where he led the HP-TS and HP-WST teams, developing J2EE and Web services transactions products respectively. Mark is one of the primary authors of the upcoming book "Modern SOA Infrastructure: Technology, Design, and Governance" and the OMG Activity Service specification and is also on the expert group for the same work in J2EE (JSR 95). He is also the specification lead for JSR 156: Java API for XML Transactions. He's on the OTS Revision Task Force and the OASIS Business Transactions Protocol specification. Before joining HP he was for over 10 years a member of the Arjuna team within the University of Newcas tle upon Tyne (where he continues to have a Visiting Fellowship). His research within the Arjuna team included replication and transactions support, which include the construction of an OTS/JTS compliant transaction processing system. Mark has published extensively in the Web Services Journal, Java Developer's Journal and other journals and magazines. He is also the co-author of several books including 'Java and Transactions for Systems Professionals' and 'The J2EE 1.4 Bible'.

Brian Loesgen is a Principal SOA Architect with Microsoft. Based in San Diego. Brian is a 6-time Microsoft MVP for BizTalk Server, and has been involved with BizTalk since prior to the BizTalk Server 2000 beta. Brian has extensive experience in building sophisticated enterprise, ESB and SOA solutions. Brian was a key architect/developer of the "Microsoft ESB Guidance", initially released by Microsoft in Oct 2006. He is a co-author of 6 books, including "BizTalk Server 2004 Unleashed", and is currently working on "SOA with .NET". He has written technical white papers for Intel, Microsoft and others. Brian has spoken at numerous major technical conferences worldwide. Brian is a co-founder and past-President of the International .NET Association (ineta.org), and past-President of the San Diego .NET user group, where he continues to lead the Connected Systems SIG, and is a member of the Editorial Board for the .NET Developer's Journal. Brian was also a member of the Microsoft Connected Systems Division Virtual Technical Specialist Team pilot, and is part of Microsoft's Connected Systems Advisory Board. Brian has been blogging since 2003 at .

Anne Thomas Manes is the Vice President and research director for Burton Group Application Platform Strategies. She covers service-oriented architecture (SOA), web services, XML, governance, Java, application servers, superplatforms, and application security. Prior to joining Burton Group, Anne was former chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance vendor (now part of HP) and director of market innovation in Sun Microsystems's software group. With 28 years of experience, Anne was named one of the 50 most powerful people in networking 2002 by Network World and among the "Power 100 IT Leaders," by Enterprise Systems Journal. Anne has authored "Web Services: A Manager's Guide" (Addison-Wesley, 2003) and contributed the foreword for the new book "Next Generation SOA" (Prentice Hall, 2009). Anne has also participated in Web services standards development efforts at the W3C, OASIS, WS-I, and JCP.

Joe McKendrick is an author and independent analyst who tracks the impact of information technology on management and markets. His popular 'Service Oriented Architecture' blog is published regularly at the ZDNet site. Joe is also SOA community manager for ebizQ, and speaks frequently on Enterprise 2.0 and SOA topics at industry events and Webcasts. He also serves as lead analyst and author of Evans Data Corp's highly regarded bi-annual SOA/Web Services and Web 2.0 surveys. Joe writes a regular column for Database Trends & Applications, and has authored numerous research reports in partnership with Unisphere Research for user groups such as SHARE, Oracle Applications Users Group, and International DB2 Users Group. In a previous life, Joe served as director of the Administrative Management Society (AMS), an international professional association dedicated to advancing knowledge within the IT and business management fields.

Steve Ross-Talbot is the Chief Architect, Cognizant Technology Solutions. Steve has been involved in computational science since 1975 - a long long time. He has published various papers over the years too. His main interests are centered on using formal methods to build robust distributed systems. The idea of getting it right and proving it has been a driving force for Steve, this is why SOA, BPMN, BPMN2, SOAML and WS-CDL are close to his heart along with formal techniques for modeling, verification and simulation and form the basis much that he does at both the Pi4Technologies Foundation and Cognizant Technology Solutions.

Stefan Tilkov is co-founder and a principal consultant at innoQ, a consulting firm with offices in Germany and Switzerland. Stefan focuses on enterprise architecture consulting for Fortune 1000 companies, which currently translates to assessing SOA maturity and deriving appropriate steps for a road map towards a service-oriented enterprise. Stefan has been involved in the design of large-scale, distributed systems for more than 15 years, using a variety of technologies and tools ranging from C/C++ and CORBA over J2EE/Java EE and Web Services to REST and Ruby on Rails. In his current work, he is actively participating in SOA projects using both RESTful HTTP as well as the WS-* universe. Stefan is the author of "REST und HTTP" and co-edited the German SOA book "SOA Expertenwissen", has written numerous articles on SOA, Web services and REST and is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world. He is a member of the SOA Manifesto Working Group, the JAX-RS (JSR 311) expert group, and headed InfoQ's SOA queue for several years.

Clemens Utschig-Utschig works as Platform Architect for the SOA Product Management team at Oracle Headquarters, USA. As a native Austrian, he started his career years back at the local consulting branch, helping customers designing their next generation JEE and SOAs as well as doing crisis management for projects abroad. Since his transfer almost 5 years ago into engineering, Clemens is responsible for cross product integration, strategic standards as well as a member to the Oracle's SOA platform steering committee. In his current role he serves on the OASIS TC for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and supports customers all around the world on their journey towards implementing enterprise-wide SOA. In 2006 Clemens co-founded the "Masons-of-SOA", an inter-company network founded by architects of Oracle Germany, OPITZ CONSULTING, SOPERA (Eclipse Project Swordfish founders) and HP Enterprise Services, with the mission of spreading knowledge, fostering discussion and supporting SOA programs across companies and borders. After 14 articles on advanced SOA topics in the German Java Magazine and three patterns for Thomas Erl's SOA Design Patterns catalogue, they are currently working on "Next generation SOA", an implementation guide slated to release as part of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series in early 2010.

Herbjorn Wilhelmsen works as a consultant at Forefront Consulting Group in Stockholm, Sweden and specializes in SOA and Business Architecture. Herbjörn has many years of industry experience working as a developer, development manager, architect and teacher. He has worked with customers in several fields of operations like telecommunications, marketing, payment industry, healthcare and public services. Herbjorn is the Chair of the SOA Patterns Review Committee and also currently leads the "Business 2 IT" group within the Swedish chapter of IASA. He is further in the midst of co-authoring the "SOA with .Net and Azure" book (www.soabooks.com/net) as part of the Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series .