About the Reviewers

Bilgin Ibryam is a software engineer with master's degree in Computer Science and he currently works for Red Hat as Middleware Consultant. His passions include distributed applications, message-oriented middleware, and application integration. He is the author of a book about Apache Camel and Enterprise Integration Patterns called Instant Apache Camel Message Routing. He is also heavily involved with open source and is a committer to Apache OFBiz, and other Apache Camel projects. In his spare time, he enjoys contributing to open source projects and blogging at http://ofbizian.com. He can be contacted via his Twitter handle @bibryam.

Claus Ibsen has worked as a software engineer, architect, and consultant for more than 15 years. For the past five years he has been working full time as an open source developer at FuseSource and Red Hat in the middleware team, on the Fuse products. He has worked extensively on the Apache Camel project for over six years, being the top contributor, and has given talks at conferences about integration using Apache Camel.

He is author of Camel in Action, Manning Publications, 2011.

I would like to congratulate Scott and Jakub for stepping up and writing this fantastic book. It is great to see the Camel community grow from strength to strength. This book will help new users to become more successful with "riding" Apache Camel, and experienced users can find valuable information from many of its recipes.

Christian Posta is based in Phoenix, AZ, and is a Principal Consultant and Architect. He specializes in messaging-based enterprise integrations with high scalability and throughput demands. He has been in development for over 10 years covering a wide range of domains; from embedded systems to UI and UX design and lots of integration in between. He's passionate about software development, loves solving tough technical problems, and enjoys learning new languages and programing paradigms. His favorite languages are Python and Scala, but he spends a lot of time writing Java too. He is a committer on Apache Camel, Apache ActiveMQ, and Apache Apollo projects as well as PMC on ActiveMQ. He blogs about Camel, ActiveMQ, and integration at http://www.christianposta.com/blog as well as tweets about interesting technology on his Twitter handle @christianposta.

Thanks to Scott and Jakub for asking me to review the book. I think this work is the ultimate complement to the other Camel book. The material cuts right to the chase and shows you how to accomplish otherwise challenging integrations using this wonderful library.

Phil Wilkins has spent nearly 25 years in the software industry working with both multinationals and software startups. He started out as a developer and has worked his way up through technical and development management roles. The last 12 years have been primarily in Java-based environments. He now works as an enterprise technical architect within the IT group for a global optical healthcare manufacturer and retailer.

Outside of his work commitments, he has contributed his technical capabilities to supporting others in a wide range of activities from the development of community websites to providing input and support to people authoring books, and developing software ideas and businesses.

When not immersed in work and technology, he spends his free time pursuing his passion for music and time with his wife and two boys.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my wife Catherine and our two sons Christopher and Aaron for their tolerance for the innumerable hours that I've spent in front of a computer contributing to both my employer and the many other IT related activities that I've supported over the years.