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Mike Clark

Mike Clark is an independent consultant based in Denver, CO. He is co-author of Bitter EJB and editor of the JUnit FAQ. He has created several open source tools including JUnitPerf for continuous performance testing. Two years ago he discovered the joy and power of test-driven development, and he hasn't written code the same way since.

Mike frequently writes and speaks on his experiences in the trenches helping teams build better software faster. He chronicles his "Aha!" moments on his own weblog, as president of Clarkware Consulting. He's been crafting software professionally since 1992, immersed in Java since 1997.

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Dominic Da Silva

Dominic Da Silva is the President of SilvaSoft, Inc. He has worked with Java since the year 2000 and is a Linux user from the 1.0 days. He specializes in Java based web and web services development. Born on the beautiful caribbean island of Trinidad and Tobago, he now makes his home in sunny Orlando, Florida.

Aditya Dada

Aditya Dada has been with sun since 2001. He currently works with the Software Quality Engineering Group on Glassfish ensuring quality for Deployment and Application Client Container. He is also one of the architects for automation frameworks used by various teams working on Sun Java Systems Application Server. Along with making test applications, he works on discovering use of new tools, and improving automation. He has a Master in Engineering Degree in Computer Science from Cornell University.

Nigel Daley

Nigel Daley is a software quality engineer at Yahoo!. He specializes in quality engineering for large-scale Java-based distributed systems and related technologies. Prior to working at Yahoo!, he was the lead quality engineer for Java RMI and Jini Network Technology at Sun Microsystems.

Sam Dalton

Sam Dalton is a Technical Architect who has worked with Java and related Technologies in London, UK for a number of years, and has co-authored two Wrox Press titles, Professional Java Servlets 2.3 , and Professional SCWCD Certification, as well as Professional JSP 2.0 from Apress.

James Duncan Davidson

James Duncan Davidson is a freelance author, software developer, and consultant focusing on Mac OS X, Java, XML, and Open Source technologies. He created Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant and was instrumental in their donation to the Apache Software Foundation by Sun Microsystems. While at Sun he lead the expert groups for two versions of the Java Servlet API and served as one of the architects of the J2EE platform. He is the author of Learning Cocoa with Objective-C, co-author of Cocoa in a Nutshell, and a contributor to Mac OS X Hacks (all published by O'Reilly and Associates) and publisher of his own website, x180, where he keeps his popular weblog.

Mark Davidson

Mark Davidson is a Senior Software Engineer and Architect at a global software company in Silicon Valley. He has worked with Java Client technologies since he joined Sun Microsystems in 1997 and continues to use and leverage Java technologies. His interests include Java client technologies, software quality processes, automation and tools. When not developing software, Mark enjoys mountain biking in the Santa Cruz mountains and snowboarding at Lake Tahoe with his wife and daughter.

Malcolm Davis

Malcolm G. Davis has been developing commercial software since 1992. He participates in the local software community as a regular speaker at JUG and IEEE computing. When he is not preaching the virtues of Java, he spends his time playing with his kids.

Bill Day

Bill Day is Director of Developer Products at DigitalReasoning Systems, Inc. where he helps drive adoption of their innovative approach to finding meaning inherent in human language. His focus is on the Digital Reasoning Platform and enabling developers to succeed with Digital Reasoning technologies. Bill is also a contributor to Wired's GeekDad.com blog and Founder & Technical Guru of Day Web Development.

Julian de Anquin

Julian de Anquin, from Cordoba Argentina, has been programming Java for the past 5 years and teaching java/J2EE in Latin America as an oracle Instructor for an argentinian Oracle business Partner. For the past 2.5 years he has led several J2EE projects (doing development, mentoring and consulting) in Argentina and in Latin America. In December 2006 he created Cordobajug.org.He now runs his own business to develop and do J2EE consulting, and is in charge of the development and educational area.

Pierre Delisle

Since joining Sun in 1990, Pierre has been involved in a variety of projects that include grid computing, CORBA technologies, and server-side Java. He is currently a member of the web layer team within the J2EE engineering group and is a co-spec lead for both the JSP and JSTL specifications.

Daniele Dellafiore

Daniele Dellafiore is a Junior Developer whose involved in developing Java software since long time and has begun a professional career in industry just recently cause "University deserves much time". His main area of interest are Open Source, Agile development and desktop applications. Actually involved in some project for Sourcesense, mainly on the server side, he tries to focus on simple and funny solutions and avoid big shack which software world is full. Also a member of JUG and XP-UG in Milan, Italy.

Dru Devore

Dru Devore is a senior SOA Architect at Moongate Technologies in Indianapolis, IN. He has been working with Java for over 11 years of experience in front end stand alone applications, web applications, enterprise J2EE applications, enterprise integration, and web services. He was at the Sun Java Center for over 3 years working with large enterprise systems. He has contributed to the Netbeans community and has presented at the JavaOne conference.

Hariharasudhan Dhakshinamoorthy

Hariharasudhan Dhakshinamoorthy is an Architect working for UST Global. Before joining UST Global he was with Sonoa Systems, a SOA appliance company. And prior to Sonoa Systems he was with Infravio (a/k/a) Webmethods (a/k/a) SoftwareAG, a SOA Intermediatory and Registry product company. His areas of interest include SOA , Web2.0 technologies. When not at work he is interested in bikes, books, fishing.

Cosmo Di Fazio Jr

Cos DiFazio Jr. is a Senior Software Architect for Nortel Networks and an Assistant Professor at Piedmont Virginia Community College.

Chris DiBona

Chris DiBona is the cofounder of both Konstrux Technologies, which implements gforge for companies, and its sister company, Damage Studios. He also co-edited the O'Reilly book Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Software Revolution and was an editor at Slashdot.org for some time, where he also ran the polls and can be found on TechTV where he does Linux segments for The ScreenSavers.

Andrei Dmitriev

Andrei has worked on different parts of AWT for about three years. He specializes in events and layouts. He is a part-time Java teacher at Saint-Petersburg State University. He likes to read, play soccer and volleyball and burn calories while in-line skating.

Darlan A. dos Santos

Darlan A. dos Santos has been working with the java technologies since 2000. He has a wide experience in open source Java technologies. He has worked on many large-scale J2EE projects for government and company. He is currently working as software architect in Northeast Bank in fortaleza - CE Brazil, but have also worked in São Paulo, Brasília, Campina Grande and João Pessoa. He is SCJP, SCWCD, SCDJWS, SCBCD and SCEA.

Jim Driscoll

Jim Driscoll has been at Sun for nearly nine years, ever since he joined JavaSoft to work on the Java Web Server and the first version of Servlets. At various times, he has been the manager of the J2EE RI, the Java Web Services Developer Pack, and a host of Open Source, web and XML projects that Sun has either participated in or led. His current job title is Manager, Project GlassFish. He lives and works in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay area.

Bill Dudney

Bill Dudney is an architect with Object Systems Group. He has been doing distributed computing for 14 years starting way back at NASA building software to manage the mass properties of the Space Shuttle. Bill started doing Java in late 1996 after years of building software on the NeXT. Currently Bill is working on a Use Case management tool that will change the world (at least he hopes so). In his spare time he has written three books, J2EE AntiPatterns, Jakarta Pitfalls and Mastering JavaServer Faces. Bill is traveling on the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium tour, you can catch him in a city near you.

Mike Duigou

Mike Duigou is an active developer on Project JXTA. he has been using his handle 'Bondolo' since he first joined the net community in 1984. Mike once founded an e-commerce software start-up with two friends long before it was fashionable. He now works for Sun Microsystems, Inc. and finds himself surprised, but thrilled, to be paid for working on open source software. Mike's first open source contributions were to the Citadel BBS software in 1987 and he has contributed other work regularly on a variety of projects. In addition to working on many parts of the JXTA J2SE implementation Mike is the editor of the JXTA Protocol Specification effort.

Robert Eckstein

Robert Eckstein has worked with Java since its first release. In a previous life, he has been an editor for O'Reilly Media, Inc. and a programmer for Motorola's cellular technology division. He has written or edited a number of books, including Java Swing, Java Enterprise Best Practices, Using Samba, XML Pocket Reference, and Webmaster in a Nutshell. In his spare time he has been known to tinker with filmmaking and digital photography, as well as collecting vintage video game consoles. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Michelle, his daughter Lauren, and their talking dog Ginger.

Scott Ellsworth

Scott has been writing simulation, modeling, and testing code for almost two decades. Java/Swing and ObjectiveC/Cocoa have been passions for the last five years; prior to that, he helped author a top flight Windows/C++ econometric package. He has degrees from Harvey Mudd College, Claremont Graduate University, and UC Berkeley in simulation. In his free time, he protects his N-scale model railroad to be from his Bengal cat. See http://www.iceweasel.com/~scott for pictures.

Martin Englund

Martin Englund is a security geek in the Java Network and Security group at Sun Microsystems. He splits his time between investigating Java vulnerability reports and doing proactive security work.

David Epstein

David Epstein is a designer of Java educational software and materials. David teaches high school teachers how to teach Java, and has taught Java at various levels, from high school to CS1 at Caltech to adult education. He is the facilitator of the JJ Dream Team, designers of the JJ2 Java IDE which runs on a JavaStick USB. David loves Java and teaching Java as a first programming language. His latest creation is "The jjPod Project", an open source, gender-neutral API enabling novice Java programmers to write and distribute interesting and useful applications that interact with iPods, MP3 players and cell phones.

Fachim

Fachim is a Software Engineer at SIGMA, a leading banking solution company in Indonesia. He's developed a wide range of Web Application using Java EE for intranet, web-based banking application and web services. His core competency lies in complete end-end management of a web-based application development project. He received his master degree in computer sciences from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi - India.

Collin Fagan

Collin Fagan is a software engineering contractor located in the Chicago suburbs. He holds a BS in Computer Science from the Rochester Institute of Technology. Collin has worked in the Medical, Produce Warehousing and Telecommunications industries on a wide assortment of projects ranging from customized Linux thin clients to highly concurrent telecommunications control systems. His favorite language is Java and devotes much of his blogging time to Swing and Java2D.

Jayson Falkner

Jayson is a long time Java developer who is currently a member of the JSP 2.0 expert group, and he has been developing with JavaServer Pages and Servlets since the technologies were initially released. Jayson is currently the CTO of Amberjack Software LLC and the web master of both JSP Insider, http://www.jspinsider.com, and the book support site for Servlets and JSP; the J2EE Web Tier, http://www.jspbook.com. He strives to provide good, free information about the J2EE web tier and he is a proponent of Linux/Java based web applications.

Rémi Forax

Rémi Forax is Maitre de Conférence at University of Marne-la-Vallée since 2003 where he obtained his PhD on multi-method implemntation in Java. He has been using Java for many years and enjoys himself hacking the JDK.

Amy Fowler

Amy Fowler is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and is one of the founding members of the Java Swing GUI Toolkit.

Eric Freeman

Eric Freeman is enjoying taking all the pixie dust from his four years as a Disney executive and applying it to his passion, computer science. He recently co-authored Head First Design Patterns for O'Reilly (and never had so much fun). He previously co-authored JavaSpaces: Principles Patterns and Practice. Before Disney, Eric worked closely with his mentor, David Gelernter, on technology and startups. Eric holds a Ph.D. from Yale University in Computer Science and has been honored by an MIT TR100 award, as a top technology innovator.

Elisabeth Freeman

Elisabeth Freeman is an author, teacher and Java software developer. She has just completed Head First Design Patterns for O'Reilly, with Eric Freeman, Kathy Sierra, and Bert Bates. Prior to writing for O'Reilly, Elisabeth spent 4 years with the Walt Disney Internet Group, where she focused on Research and Development and Digital Rights Management.

Christian Frei

Christian Frei is the co-organizer of Jazoon, the international conference on Java technology for software developers, architects, consultants, and IT managers. The first ever Jazoon in summer 2007 attracted 800 participants and speakers from 28 countries. Already the very first accomplishment of Jazoon turned Zurich for four days into the epicenter of the Java and open source community.

Stephen Friedrich

Stephen Friedrich is a senior software engineer at Fortis IT-Services. He lives in the beautiful city of Hamburg, Germany, with his wife and five cats. Stephen worked his way from financial services' mainframe environment through distributed C++ in the telco business and has found his happy home in the Java community about six years ago. He developed special interests in both Java desktop technology and database connectivity while working on a number of commercial Java applications. When not busy coding he is found dancing and teaching Lindy Hop.

Richard P Gabriel

Richard P. Gabriel received a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University in 1981, and an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College in 1998. He is chief scientist of a small laboratory at Sun Microsystems, President of the Hillside Group, and the CEO of Dream Songs, Inc.

John Gage

John Gage is the chief researcher and vice president of the Science Office, for Sun Microsystems, Inc. He is responsible for Sun's relationships with world scientific and technical organizations, for international public policy and governmental relations in the areas of scientific and technical policy, and for alliances with the world's leading research institutions.

Ben Galbraith

Ben Galbraith is a frequent technical speaker, occasional consultant, and author of several Java-related books. He is a co-founder of Ajaxian.com, an experienced Chief Technical Officer and Enterprise Java Architect, and is presently a consultant specializing in enterprise architecture and Swing/Ajax development. Ben wrote his first computer program when he was six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce just after turning twelve. For the past few years, he's been professionally coding in Java. In 2005, Ben delivered over a hundred technical presentations at venues including JavaOne, JavaPolis, and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposiums.

Ray Gans

Ray Gans is a senior program manager at Sun Microsystems who has been working on Java Compatibility programs since 1997. Most recently, Ray has been managing the Peabody project for the J2SE organization, an initiative to improve the collaboration between Sun's JDK engineering team and the developer community. See the JDK Community on java.net for more information.

Jody Garnett

Jody Garnett has been working with Java since rocks began to cool, and now that they have we can hack them with Java. GIS represents one of the last great frontiers (along with BI) where the data volume lets everyone work on real computer science. This blog will cover the Open Source Java GIS community, and more then enough hard core design to keep you amused.

Felipe Gaucho

Felipe Vieira Silva, a brazilian known as Felipe Gaucho, started his computing career in the 90's (C/C++, VB) and first tried Java in 1998 during the development of a robot arm simulator as a student of scientific initiation program at UNISINOS. One year later he concluded his course and becomes an enthusiastic about Java, seeking the tricks about the new technology and joining himself to projects that involved the concept of portable software - the fever of that time. On December 2002 he concluded his Masters Degree in the Federal University of Cear·, publishing his dissertation about "Planning & Scheduling" and started teaching in faculties of computing. The challenges of the new career revealed an exciting area: Learning & Education. Observing the behaviour of students and teachers, he started dreaming with several computational solutions for questions like "how to enhance the teaching?", "how to facilitate learning by the students?" and other common issues shared by the academic community. Nowadays, Felipe Ga?cho is seeking a PhD opportunity in order to improve his knowledge and enhance his capacity of contribution for the society. The establishment of the Schoolbus Project in the JELC community was an important step in that direction, and he believes he can become a good researcher in the next few years.

Bino George

Bino George is an engineer on the Swing team in the Java desktop client group at Sun Microsystems. Bino currently works on the JDNC project and contributed the Tray API to the JDIC project. Previously Bino was the Tech-lead of the AWT team at Sun and re-wrote the X11 implementation of AWT. Prior to joining Sun, Bino worked in the JVM group in Hewlett Packard.

Bruno Ghisi

Bruno Ghisi is a Java enthusiast with focus on Java ME, open source and wireless technologies. He is a Mobile & Embedded Community Star and Java Champion. In addition, he helps a JUG called GUJava/SC and maintains some open source projects, such as Marge. He is a new grad that intends to do a Master and currently works for CERTI Foundation. Also, he lives in an island in the south of Brazil called Florianópolis.

Fabrizio Gianneschi

Fabrizio Gianneschi is a long time Java enthusiast who leads the JUG Sardegna (Italy), which won a Duke's Choice Award in 2006. He's one of the java.net JUGs Community Leaders and a member of the Java Champions. In his daily job, after many years of experience in the software development industry, Fabrizio now works as a technical officer in the General IT Direction of the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, designing, controlling and monitoring big e-government projects.

Fabrizio Giudici

Fabrizio Giudici is a Senior Java Architect with a long J2EE experience and in the latest two years he expanded his interests to Jini and NetBeans. Fabrizio has been running Tidalwave.it, his own consultancy company, since 2001 and has been a technical speaker at JavaOne, JavaPolis, Jazoon, Jini Community Meetings and some italian Java conferences. He started working with Java since the old 1.0 times and after 1.3 he has been committed in demonstrating that Java performance is not an issue, really. After bringing Java to the world of Formula One telemetry, he believes he is on the right path. Fabrizio is a member of the JUG Milano and the NetBeans Dream Team.

Alexander Glasman

Alexander Glasman is working in the Java ME Test Products group at Sun Microsystems. Alexander's primary area of focus is the Technology Compatibility Kits (TCKs). He developed TCKs for different technologies and has a broad expertise across the whole Java ME stack from Java Card to CDC/PBP/AGUI.

Mason Glaves

Mason Glaves is the senior Java engineer at Vanten K.K. (http://www.vanten.com), an open source consulting company based in Tokyo, Japan. He has been working professionally in such varied fields as network and application security, biometric authentication, and knowledge management for the past seven years but has been a known voice in the security community since 1988. He began working with Java in early 1996 and has been an avid developer and advocate ever since. Mason has an academic background in Anthropology with a specialization in linguistics and spends his free time studying and documenting both Native American and far East Asian language and culture.

Max Goff

Max Goff is the Chief Marketing Officer for Digital Reasoning Systems, Inc., headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee. He is a 20-year veteran of software development with 9 years at Sun Microsystems, 6 of which were spent serving as a Java technology evangelist, specializing in JMX, Jini, and Jxta technologies. He is a published author, writer, and inventor with three distributed computing patents. Goff holds an M.B.A. from the University of San Francisco, and is a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International. He is also a member of the IEEE and a professional-level member of the World Future Society.

Athomas Goldberg

Athomas Goldberg is the Wildcard in Sun's Game Technologies Group having spent the last several years engaged in synthetic actor research, game tools & middleware design, p2p network architecture, software marketing, business development and corporate governance. AT's first project for Sun was JOAL (Java Bindings for OpenAL), and is a project owner and active contributor on several JXTA.org projects.

Alexandre Gomes

Alexandre Gomes got his Master degree from Universidade de Brasilia, Brazil, researching on ubiquitous computing and developing a middleware called UbiquitOS to abstract physical devices as software components (which will be published on java.net soon). Alexandre is CTO at SEA Tecnologia, a brazilian company based on agile practicies, he is board member of SouJava, and he loves to speak at IT conferences. Today, he maintains a number of projects at java.net, such as BtUtil, EasyJini, Coral, DiNo, HoHo, PackAle!, Greenbox and uVNC.

Art Gould

Art Gould has been hanging around corporate IT and the software industry for over 20 years. Recently, he's been following Linux and open source developers for Sun.

Vikram Goyal

Vikram Goyal is the author of Pro Java ME MMAPI, published by Apress. This book explains how to add audio, video and other multimedia capabilities to a Java enabled phone. Vikram is also the author of the Jakarta Commons Online Bookshelf. In his spare time, Vikram helps manage a free craft projects website. Vikram hopes to start his own mobile industry initiative soon. You can contact him at tech@craftbits.com.

Duane Gran

Duane Gran is a Project Manager at the University of Virginia, where he supervises Java developers working on software to enhance literary criticism. Previously he served as a Software Architect and was a Senior Java Programmer at the Department of Labor and the Library of Congress. He has been programming in Java since the public beta in 1995. Duane lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Richard Gregor

Richard Gregor is Software Engineering Manager at Sun Microsystems. Since November 2005, Richard has been leading the Sun Java Wireless Toolkit Team, focusing on JSR 248 reference implementation and the next version of the fabulous Sun Java Wireless Toolkit. Richard has been at Sun Microsystems for over 5 years, working as JavaHelp software engineer and also as NetBeans IDE developer in Prague Sun Development Center. In his current role, Richard is responsible for managing of the toolkit implementations.

Mike Grogan

Mike Grogan is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems currently working on the WebServices Team. He is the Spec Lead for JSR 223 "Scripting for the Java Platform" and Co-Spec Lead for JSR 261"Java APIs for XML-based Web Services Addressing".

Kirill Grouchnikov

Kirill Grouchnikov has been writing software since he was in junior high school, and after finishing his BSc in computer science, he happily continues doing it for a living. He is currently working as a senior software developer in a large corporate environment and would like to share his views on the Java community, trends and code writing experience.

Sergey Groznyh

Sergey Groznyh is a Swing Text developer at Sun Microsystems. Prior to that he was involved in numerous projects in the industry related to structured text processing and formatting.

Kyle Grucci

Kyle Grucci is a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems, Inc. Kyle is currently the architect for the Java EE Compatibility Test Suite (CTS) and related Enterprise Technology Compatibility Kits. His primary responsibilities include overall architecture design and implementation of the CTS test harness and porting packages. Kyle holds an B.S. in Math and Information Systems from Boston College. He is also an avid sports fan of the Red Sox, BC, Patriots, and Celtics.

Arun Gupta

Arun Gupta is a Technology Evangelist for Web Services and Web 2.0 Apps at Sun. He was the spec lead for APIs in the Java platform, committer in multiple Open Source projects, participated in standard bodies and contributed to Java EE and SE releases.

Romain Guy

Romain is a French student currently working as an intern with the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. His numerous other works include being a journalist for computing magazines and translating books for O'Reilly France. He has been using Java for many years and now puts as much time and efforts he can in UI design and Java for the desktop programming.

James Gosling

I've been inescapably tagged as "the Java guy". These days I'm the CTO of Sun's Developer Products group. This now includes the J2SE engineering organization, so I've managed to cycle back. With luck I'll update this blog often enough for it to be interesting.

Chet Haase

Chet worked on the Java SE team at Sun for years, most recently as an architect in the Java Client Group. You can see what he's up to now on his blog Codedependent, covering Flex and other graphics goodies at http://graphics-geek.blogspot.com.

Jan Haderka

Jan Haderka is an independent software developer and technology consultant focusing on desktop and enterprise applications. He has been writing software for number of years and since 1995 he has been doing so for living, working for various companies from small startups to big corporations. Lately he has been involved in number of projects, Swinglabs and Magnolia among others.

Marc Hadley

Dr. Marc J. Hadley is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Office of the CTO, Sun Microsystems where he works on a variety of Web-based technologies. He is currently co-spec lead for JSR 311, a Java API for RESTful Web Services. Previously Marc 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 Organisation (WS-I) and was co-spec lead for JSR 224 (JAX-WS) at the JCP.

Graham Hamilton

Graham Hamilton is a VP and Fellow in the Java platform team at Sun Microsystems. He was the lead architect for J2SE releases 1.3, 1.4 and 1.5. His current projects include planning for post-Tiger JDK releases, an Ease-of-Development initiative across J2SE and J2EE, and working with Sun's tools group on new tools initiatives.

Mozammel Haque

Mozammel Haque lives in Bangladesh and works as a Senior Software Engineer at Therap BD Ltd.

Steven Harris

Steven Harris has been a Java Developer since 1998. He lives in Framingham, Massachusetts with wife Helen and cat Jessica. He has many interests in the vast arena of Java Technologies, but Jini Network Technology is a particular favorite. Check out his Federale project on jini.org. He is currently employed as a senior software engineer at Idiom, Inc. Thus far, he has been unable to disprove the fundamental premise of Fred Brooks' "Silver Bullet" paper, although he continues to try on a daily basis. His current favorite authors are Dave Thomas, (not of the Wendy's fame) and Andrew Hunt. Steve has a BA in Geology from Boston University and an MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic Institute. His interests include Computer technology, Music (he's an acoustic folk guitar picker), Science in general, and Ham Radio (callsign: W1CTO).

Ahmed Hashim

Ahmed Hashim has been working with Java technologies since 2002, he is currently working as software engineer in Enterprise Application Integration team in Etisalat. He has experience with EJB, Hibernate, Spring, Struts, JSF & AJAX, ESB & BPEL. He is SCJP and SCWCD. Ahmed Hashim is the initiative, founder and leader of the Egyptian Java User group, he is a frequent speaker in local event in Egypt organized by Egyptian JUG and other communities. Ahmed is a Sun Java Champion since December 2007. Ahmed graduated from Faculty of Computers and Information, Computer Science Department, Cairo University, after doing MSc thesis 'Design Level Assertion and Architecture quality'.

Sayed Hashimi

Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi (sayedh) is a software engineer and consultant. Sayed has been involved in many open source projects in the past and currently is focused on JXTA. He is the owner of the dreamcatcher project at jxta.org. His primary professional focus is on Java and P2P applications (using JXTA), because of this so is his blog!

Erik Hatcher

Erik Hatcher is the co-author of the premiere book on Ant, Java Development with Ant published by Manning and is co-author of Lucene in Action. He is an active Ant project developer and maintains jGuru's Ant FAQ and Forum. Erik has written articles for WebReview.com, IBM developerWorks, and JavaPro. His other active open-source efforts currently include Lucene, XDoclet, and his own blogger - BlogScene. Erik lives in Charlottesville, VA.

Ryan Heaton

Ryan Heaton is a senior software engineer for FamilySearch.org. Ryan specializes in the design and development of Web services, particularly for the Java platform. He actively contributes to the effort of making Web services easy to develop and publish while maintaining an acceptable level of interoperability. As part of his contribution to this end, Ryan engineered Enunciate, a Web service deployment framework. Ryan is the father of four boys and currently resides in Salt Lake City.

Janice J. Heiss

In addition to exploring the wonderful world of technology at Tech Days, and getting to interview many Java technology luminaries and unsung heroes on java.sun.com as a staff writer for Sun, Janice J. Heiss is a published writer of fiction and non-fiction and has written and performed for the stage, including stand-up comedy.

She also blogs at: http://blogs.sun.com/janheiss/, http://blogs.sun.com/TechDaysEvents/, and http://blogs.sun.com/javaone2008/.

Juan Carlos Herrera

Juan Carlos Herrera is a consultant at Educational Consulting Services a division of Sun Learning Services and Java Instructor with over five years experience delivering Sun courses. His concerns is about the "human side" of Security & Performance. More information on him can be found at People Wiki.

David Herron

David Herron has worked for 7 years in the J2SE Quality Engineering team. He has developed test suites and GUI test automation tools, and was a co-author of the java.awt.Robot class. His prior experience is in development roles, in cross-platform GUI toolkits, and electronic mail systems. David graduated from the University of Kentucky in 1988.

Shannon Hickey

Shannon Hickey is Technical Lead for the Swing team at Sun Microsystems. As a member of the team for the last five years, he has become intimately familiar with the toolkit, of which he now guides the technical direction. Shannon is also personally responsible for enhancing multiple areas, including the Swing drag and drop experience. You'll find him frequenting the Swing & AWT forum on JavaDesktop.org where he loves chatting with the community and answering questions.

Rachel Hill

Rachel Hill is a videographer, photographer, creative designer, and overall new media specialist. She is constantly fascinated by the ways new media continues to change the way we live. She is especially interested in the possibilities for web video as a new medium for communication and collaboration. She lives in Burbank, CA where she trains middle and high schoolers to utilize digital media in new and creative ways. You can see her work at RaeAndKCreative.com

Ron Hitchens

Ron Hitchens is a California-based computer geek whose career dates back to the disco era. His first computer was a punched-card mainframe. The last one (so far) is a G4 Mac PowerBook. Not just a good idea, it's Moore's Law.

Ron has done a little of everything but mostly concentrated on Java for the last few years as a consultant, author and employee of failed startups. Ron recently joined Mark Logic Corporation, a successful startup, where he is a Senior Engineer, Editor-In-Chief of the xq:zone Developer Website and discovering the world of XQuery.

Stanley Ho

Stanley Ho is the architect for the Java Deployment team in Java SE at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He has been involved with Java since JDK 1.1 when he joined the JavaBeans team. He was the technical lead or the main contributor in many projects, including Java Web Start, Java Update, JDK/JRE Install-On-Demand, Java Plug-in, etc. Most recently, he is the specification lead for JSR-277: Java Module System.

Ken Hofsass

Ken Hofsass is a member of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems. He is part of the JAX-WS and WSIT Development Teams. Ken is also a member of the vendors' WS-MEX specification group and is currently responsible for the WS-MEX implementation in WSIT.

Wayne Holder

Wayne is a Web Systems Architect for Northrop Grumman working in the Defense Enterprise Solutions division where he manages a team that designs and builds web-based information systems.  Wayne built his first home computer from an Intel 4040 chip set he purchased for $100 in 1974.  Things have only gotten more complicated since then.

Jacob Hookom

Jacob Hookom is a developer with McKesson Medical-Surgical, designing supply management solutions on the web, desktop, and handheld for a multitude of markets. He started consulting at 16 and has since held titles from Information Architect to Product Manager. In his free time, he contributes to Sun's JavaServerFaces RI and Glassfish projects and is an active member of the JavaServerFaces Expert Groups. Recently he started a Java.net project of his own, called 'Facelets', which is a templating framework for JavaServer Faces.

Cay Horstmann

Cay Horstmann is author of Core Java (Sun Microsystems Press 1996-2004), Enterprise Java for Elvis (Sun Microsystems Press, to appear in 2006), and co-author of Core JSF (Sun Microsystems Press 2004) Cay is professor of computer science at San Jose State University. He is a computer science series editor at Prentice-Hall and a frequent speaker at computer industry conferences. For four years, Cay was VP and CTO of an Internet startup that went from 3 people in a tiny office to a public company.

Justyna Horwat

Justyna Horwat is a Software Engineer at Apple Computer and has been involved in Java-enabled web technologies for the past 7 years. Currently, she's working on the server-side implementation of the iTunes Music Store. Before joining Apple, she worked at JavaSoft, a division of Sun Microsystems, on the JSP Standard Tag Library, Tomcat, JSPs, Servlets, and JSF implementations. She's been active in the Open Source community for several years and in 2002 became the first woman developer to be elected an Apache Software Foundation member.

Jason Hunter

Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic, specializing in large-scale XML content manipulation using XQuery. He's probably best known as the author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly Media). He's also an Apache Member and as Apache's representative on the Java Community Process Executive Committee he established a landmark agreement allowing open source Java. He's publisher of Servlets.com and XQuery.com, an original contributer to Apache Tomcat (and Apache Ant committer), the creator of the JDOM open source project, a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API development, and was recently appointed Sun Java Champion. In 2003, he received the Oracle Magazine Author of the Year award, and in 2005, the JavaOne Outstanding Talk award. His largest audience was 15,000 at a J