Alexandre AlvesAlexandre 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 s 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. Read More Read Less