Rama Turaga, PMP and IBM Certified Consulting IT Specialist is a member of the IBM Software Services for Websphere (ISSW) team working as a J2EE, WAS, XD, WPS, and Portal specialist and architect at various customer engagements. Rama's combination of technical, architectural and project management skills make him a prime candidate to lead and mentor teams. He has over 18 years of experience in software design, development, testing, architecting, administering, maintenance and support. Rama has over seven years of experience in web technologies using n-tier architecture, and had a decade of experience in database administration, performance tuning, database design and development, using Oracle and Informix. He is an IBM Certified SOA Solution Designer, Certified Administrator for SOA Solutions using WebSphere Process Server V6, Certified Administrator for WebSphere Application Server V6.1. Rama's other IBM certifications include IBM Certified administrator for WebSphere Application Server V5 Basic and Advanced Administration, Certified Enterprise Developer using WSAD V5.0, IBM Certified Web Services Solution Developer Using WSAD v5.1 and IBM Certified WebSphere Portal v5.0 Administrator and Deployer. He is also a Sun Certified: Enterprise Architect, Web Component Developer, Java2 Developer and Java2 Programmer. Rama has been working on WebSphere platform since V3.0. He was also IBM Certified Administrator for WebSphere Application Server Versions 3.5, 4.0, 5.x and 6.0 . He frequently speaks on WebSphere technologies at WebSphere conferences and user group meetings. Rama holds a degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering.

Acknowledgements:
First of all, I want to thank God for providing me an opportunity and then sending people to me to make this book a reality. I can't thank enough both Peter Vansickel and Owen Cline for their contributions and for taking the time from their busy schedule to review my chapters while writing their own. Hats off to Benedict Fernandes and Madhu Chetuparambil for reviewing and commenting on the final version of the book. Special thanks to Bruce Eppinger and Bill Hines for providing information and insight into the logistics on writing a book for the first time. I also want to thank my manager Scott McMurray for his continuous support throughout the writing of this book. Last but not least, my late grandfather sri. Ramachandra Rao, my late aunt smt. Sujatha and my childhood friend Pidaparthi Prakash Chainulu for their association, teachings and guidance that built a foundation for my life.

Misson Statement

1. Provide administrator/architect friendly (clear, concise, repeatable, tested and easy to follow) step by step instructions to architect and configure WebSphere Application Server with various products it deals with from stand-alone to highly available workload management (HA/WLM) environments including SOA based products that run on top of WebSphere Application Server.

2. Allow IBM customers to concentrate on their application development and deployment issues rather than WebSphere infrastructure architecture and configuration problems. Give examples (not just theory) for various scenarios that can be used to customize the customer environments (development thru production).

The printed version of the book and the chapters available in this web site are examples of the output.