I’d like to thank Dr. Marc Hadley of Oracle (formerly of Sun Microsystems) for taking time out of his busy day to meet with me in support of my work on the Service Design Patterns book. Marc is a Java and Web Services Architect , the specification lead for JSR 311 (i.e. a Java API for RESTful Web Services), and is the author of the Web Application Description Language (WADL). Marc has represented Sun in the W3C XML Protocol and W3C Web Services Addressing working groups where he was co-editor of the SOAP 1.2 and WS-Addressing specifications. Marc also served as the technical lead for Sun’s participation at the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) and was co-spec lead for JSR 224 (JAX-WS). Thanks so much Marc for your input, and I look forward to more stimulating conversations!!!!