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Publish Date
04 April 2007
Last Update
14 May 2008
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(based on 13 reviews)
Author(s)
- Ueli Wahli
- Lee Ackerman
- Alessandro Di Bari
- Gregory Hodgkinson
- Anthony Kesterton
- Laura Olson
- Bertrand Portier
Ueli Wahli is a Consultant IT Specialist at the IBM International Technical Support Organization in San Jose, California. Before joining the ITSO 20 years ago, Ueli worked in technical support at IBM Switzerland. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about WebSphere Application Server, and WebSphere and Rational application development products. In his ITSO career, Ueli has produced more than 40 IBM Redbooks. Ueli holds a degree in Mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.
Lee Ackerman is a Senior Product Manager with the Rational Learning Services and Solutions team in Canada. He has 12 years of experience in the software development field. He has worked at IBM for seven years. He holds a bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Regina. His areas of expertise include model-driven development, patterns-based engineering, and service-oriented architecture. He has written extensively on these topics and often presents at conferences, workshops, and training events.
Alessandro Di Bari is a Senior IT Architect for IBM Rational Services in Italy. He has 16 years of experience in software development field and nine years using IBM Rational tools. He holds bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Turin. His areas of expertise include the software development process, requirements management, UML modeling, object-oriented programming and software architectures. As part of Rational Services, he provides consultancy to customers on Rational Unified Process adoption and SOA transition.
Gregory Hodgkinson is founder, director, and the SOA lead at 7irene, an IBM Tier 1 Business Partner in the United Kingdom. He has 10 years experience initially in the field of component-based development (CBD) moving seamlessly into the field of service-oriented architecture (SOA). He holds a bachelor's degree, (Hons) cum laude, in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of the Orange Free State, South Africa. His area of expertise is the software development process and method, and he assists 7irene and IBM customers in adopting RUP framework-based agile development process and SOA methods. He is still very much a practitioner and has been responsible for service architectures for a number of FTSE 100 companies. He presents on agile SOA process and methods at both IBM and other events.
Anthony Kesterton is a Technical Consultant for IBM Rational Financial Services Sector in the United Kingdom. He has 17 years of experience in IT and 14 years using various IBM Rational tools. He holds a master's degree in Applied Computer Science from Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. His areas of expertise include the development process, requirements management, business modeling, and analysis and design in UML using the IBM Rational tooling, and helping customers implement process and tools. He frequently presents these topics at external conferences and internal IBM conferences worldwide.
Laura Olson is a Senior IT Specialist for the Global e-Business Transformation group in the Rochester, Minnesota. She has nine years of experience in the technology field. She holds bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Wisconsin, La Crosse. Her areas of expertise in IBM products includes WebSphere Portal, WebSphere Application Server, and Rational SDP.
Bertrand Portier is an IT Architect for IBM Software Group SOA Advanced Technologies in Canada. He holds a diplome d'ingenieur (French Master of Science degree) in Computer Engineering from Polytech' Lille, France. He has worked at IBM for seven years. His areas of expertise include service-oriented architecture, Web services, model-driven and asset-based development. He has written extensively on Java, Web services, and SOA.
ISBN
0738486213
IBM Form Number
SG24-7356-00