Debu Panda, lead author of the best selling EJB 3 in Action (Manning Publications), is a senior Product Management Director on the Oracle Fusion Middleware Management development team, where he drives development of the middleware management aspects of Oracle Enterprise Manager. He has more than 17 years of experience in the IT industry and has published numerous articles on enterprise Java technologies and has presented at many conferences. Debu maintains an active blog on enterprise Java and SOA technologies at http://www.debupanda.com.