Alexandre Alves has over 12 years of experience in software development, working for large companies such as IBM and Oracle. He has worked with network management, CORBA, JEE, Web-Services, OSGi, BPEL, CEP, and middleware technologies in general. He is the co-author of the WS-BPEL 2.0 specification, co-author of BPEL for Java specification, author of the 'OSGi in Depth' book, and a steering committee member of the Event Processing Technical Society (EPTS). I would like to thank my family for giving me the support I needed to continue my work regardless of all other problems that life throws at you. I would like to thank my sons, Gabriel and Lucas, for providing for the fun-filled book-writing breaks, and understanding when I was in the book-writing no-breaks (as they saw it). I would like to especially thank Juliana, my wife-to-be, for her unyielding support, her caring, and especially for her life-long understanding. For you, all is worth. Words put into a book are everlasting, so is our love. Finally, I would like to thank my excellent co-authors and colleagues at Oracle for giving me the material and the experience I needed for writing this book.

Lloyd Williams

Lloyd Williams has over 17 years of experience in the software development and IT industry. Lloyd graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1995 with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) specializing in Management Information Systems and Operations Management. He then moved to California to start consulting in the telecommunications industry. Since then, he has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies around the globe in every industry. Lloyd’s experience ranges from large telecommunications and automotive projects working with global systems integrators to leading the development of small event-driven RFID solutions at a small start-up. He is currently an Outbound Product Manager working for Oracle within the Business Integration team of the Oracle Fusion Middleware product family. He works with customers around the globe developing solutions that integrate Oracle Event Processing with SOA and BPM solutions.