Sonic Software Chief Technology Evangelist Authors 'Enterprise Service Bus' Book

Business Wire, June 28, 2004

SAN FRANCISCO -- Published by O'Reilly Media, First Book on the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Debuts at 2004 JavaOne Conference

Sonic Software Chief Technology Evangelist David Chappell has written the first definitive book on the enterprise service bus (ESB). Published by O'Reilly Media, Enterprise Service Bus will be released at the 2004 JavaOne Conference this week in San Francisco, CA.

Enterprise Service Bus provides a thorough introduction and overview for systems architects, systems integrators, technical project leads, and CTOs/CIOs who need to understand, assess and evaluate this new approach to integration. Written by David Chappell, one of the best known and authoritative voices in the field of enterprise middleware and standards-based integration, the book explores the technical details of the major components of ESB, showing how it can utilize an event-driven, service-oriented architecture (SOA) to bring a variety of enterprise applications and services built on J2EE(TM), .NET, C/C , and other legacy environments into the reach of the everyday IT professional. Enterprise Service Bus debuts as the first in a new architect series from O'Reilly called Theory in Practice.

"If you are charged with understanding, assessing, or implementing an integration architecture, Enterprise Service Bus will provide the straightforward information you need to draw your conclusions about this important disruptive technology," said David Chappell, author and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software. "While the architect focus of Enterprise Service Bus marks a new direction for O'Reilly Media, it maintains the O'Reilly tradition of providing the definitive guide for important technology categories."

For more information visit http://www.sonicsoftware.com/esb_book.> About the Author

David Chappell is vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing. He has a strong passion for shaping the future of technology, and enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others. Chappell is well known for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and evolving standards for Web services and service-oriented architecture. As Director of Engineering for Sonic Software, Chappell led the development effort for SonicMQ(R), which has grown to become synonymous with enterprise messaging and the Java(TM) Message Service (JMS). He has extensive experience in distributed computing, including JMS and MOM, CORBA, COM, EJB and Web application server infrastructure. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces, and language interpreters.

Other books by the author include Java Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly).

About Sonic Software Corporation

Sonic Software is the inventor and leading provider of the enterprise service bus (ESB). Sonic enterprise integration and messaging products deliver flexibility, scalability, and continuous availability through patent-pending innovations. Sonic Software enables over 700 customers to integrate their organizations from the department to the extended enterprise with a standards-based, service-oriented architecture (SOA).

Sonic Software is an independent operating company of Progress Software Corporation (Nasdaq: PRGS), a US$300 million global software industry leader. Headquartered in Bedford, Mass., Sonic Software can be reached on the Web at http://www.sonicsoftware.com, or by phone at 1-781-999-7000 or 1-866-GET-SONIC.

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