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Mohamed Abdelaziz is one of the principal senior architects of Project JXTA, Peer-to-Peer Networking, at Sun Microsystems since the inception of the project. Most of Mohamed's focus has been in the areas of DHT, Discovery, Peer Resolution, Pipe, and net.jxta.socket to name a few. Mohamed's professional life before Project JXTA included research and development of Java Technologies, Data Communication, and device driver development.

Jean-Francois Arcand

Jean-Francois Arcand has worked for Sun Microsystems since 2000. He currently works on GlassFish, mainly on the WebContainer and the new Java NIO based http engine called Grizzly. Before joining Sun, he has worked as a software architect for compagnies such as France Telecom, Microcell Telecom and HMS Software, in both Java and C++. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Quebec where life is perfect.

Calvin Austin

Calvin Austin is an engineer at SpikeSource.com. He previously led the J2SE 5.0 release at Sun Microsystems and also led Sun's Java on Linux port.

Tom Ball

Tom Ball is a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, working on Java language tools. He has been working with Java for eleven years now with the JDK, AWT, Swing, Jackpot, and NetBeans teams. Tom considers programming a craft, and is always looking for new tools and techniques to improve it.

Frederic Barachant

Programming since early days of personnal computing around 1983, Frederic Barachant has been through many machines and languages and now concentrates on java. I've been working in the graphic industry for years as an independent graphist, doing 3D images for corporate companies, films, tv shows and games. I have been the author of a compositing application, developped in the company i founded, I/O labs. My interest is in anything that relates to graphic programming and animation.

Terrence Barr

Terrence Barr is a Senior Technologist at Sun Microsystems and Ambassador of the Java Mobile & Embedded Community. He has 15+ years of industry experience with more than 10 of those years at Sun. He has been working on various technical aspects of embedded systems and Java ME for a number of years including implementation and optimization of virtual machines, byte code hardware acceleration, and multiprocessor platforms. Terrence also participates or has participated in organizations such as JCP, OMA, EEMBC, and VITA, is author and co-author of a number of U.S. and European patents, and speaks frequently at various conferences around the world including JavaOne. Terrence is also the project owner of the ME Application Developers project.

Sonya Barry

Sonya Barry started out with Sun in 2005 as an intern at Java.net while in grad school working on an interdisciplinary masters in Computer Science with emphasis in Education. She's now a full time engineer at Sun and she also teaches computer science and technology topics part time at a middle school, and is active in developing, teaching, and managing after school programs and weekend technology seminars for kids.

Phil Bender

Phil Bender is CableLabs' OpenCable Business Relations Project Director. His role is to promote application development on the OpenCable Platform for the cable TV industry. Phil is the Project Leader of the OpenCable Project on Java.net

Binod

Binod P.G is a senior staff engineer in the Java Web Services division at Sun Microsystems. He is an architect in the Application Server development team and is working on Project SailFin. He is also a co-specification lead of the Java EE Connector Architecture 1.6 Expert Group and a member of JDBC 4.0 expert group. In the past, he was involved in the development of many areas of the glassfish applicaton server, including Java EE Service Engine, Server Startup, Connector 1.5, JDBC, Connection Pool and JMS provider integration. He is also one of the owners of Generic Resource Adapter for JMS project. Prior to joining Sun in 2000, he has worked on a number of server side software technologies including IMS PL/1 programs in IBM Mainframes and internet projects in Microsoft IIS.

Eltjo Boersma

Eltjo works as a software architect at Ericsson. Started in 1997 at Ericsson and has been applying java to the telecom service layer from that time on, growing up together with java in this traditionally proprietary technology area. Currently he is a developer for SailFin and is an expert group member of the JCA v1.6 JSR (322). Within Ericsson Eltjo works on and with several JEE related projects. In his spare time, next to his numerous java 'home' projects and reading a lot of fantasy, he tries to play the piano, much to the grieve of his cat.

Yvo Bogers

Yvo Bogers, studied applied mathematics at the Twente University, and graduated in the area of conceptual graph theory in 1998. He then started working for Ericsson Telecommunicatie B.V. in Rijen, where he worked mostly in the area of value added services (IN) and (more recently) on JavaEE prototyping and standardization. In his spare time, he is an amateur astronomer, a studio technician, plays a bunch of musical instruments, and has been a Mac adept since Apple took over Emagic in 2002.

Tim Boudreau

Tim Boudreau had his first startup when he was 13, and has been hooked since, with brief departures to play rock and roll, write and play music and do graphics and photography. He is the coauthor of NetBeans, the Definitive Guide from O'Reilly and Associates. Tim was part of the team that open sourced NetBeans, Sun Microsystems' Java(tm) development environment, and currently work as a developer on that project. Originally from Massachusetts, he lives in his adopted home city, Prague, Czech Republic.

Bruce Boyes

Bruce Boyes is the founder and co-leader of the Java.net Robotics Community, is on the Board of JDDAC and is active in the embedded Java Community. He's especially interested in teaching advanced robotics at the university level, and in the development of international robotics standards.

Ed Burns

Ed Burns is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. Ed has worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat and, most recently JavaServer Faces. Ed is currently the co-spec lead for JavaServer Faces.

Jonathan Campbell

For the past 18 years Jon Campbell has developed software and done network engineering. He holds more then 15 IT certifications, including a Valencia Community College two year certificate. He specializes in Java/C++/C# project management and AIX/Linux/Microsoft network engineering

Mark A. Carlson

Mark A. Carlson, Senior Architect at Sun Microsystems' Storage Group, has more than 25 years of experience with Networking and Storage development and more than ten year's experience with Java technology. He has spoken at numerous industry forums and events. He serves on the SNIA Technical Council, and represents Sun Microsystems on the DMTF Technical Committee as well as the DMTF Board of Directors where he serves as VP of Alliances.

Harold Carr

Harold Carr is the engineering lead for enterprise web services interoperability at Sun Microsystems - enabling atomic transactions, reliable messaging and security between Java and Windows Communications Foundation. Previous to this role he was responsible for RMI-IIOP load-balancing and fail-over in the Sun Java System Application Server (SJSAS). He designed the core architecture used in Sun's CORBA ORB and in the JAX-RPC 2.0 reference implementation and the scalable socket communications architecture used in SJSAS HTTP and IIOP remoting. He helped write the OMG Portable Object Adapter specification and was chairperson of the OMG Portable Interceptor specification. Previous to Sun, he did distributed computing research at Hewlett-Packard Research Laboratories and Schlumberger Research Laboratories, was Chief Architect of Visual Lisp technology at Autodesk, and was a logic simulation consultant for Cirrus Logic. He holds a Ph.D., in Computer Science from the University of Utah.

Ludovic Champenois

Ludovic Champenois (ludo) is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems since 1996, working in between the Application Server (J2EE) organization and the Java tools organization. He is currently the chief architect for the J2EE developer support effort in the NetBeans open source project (http://j2ee.netbeans.org). This project is used as the foundation for other tools like Sun Java Creator and Sun Java Studio.

Bruce Chapman

Bruce Chapman has been developing in Java since 1998, predominantly building telecommunication sytems. He has a degree in mechanical engineering from so long ago that it is almost irrelevant, and lives in New Zealand. Bruce was a member of the JSR269 expert group. His interest is primarily in the SE space but has also worked on ME and EE projects.

Roberto Chinnici

Roberto Chinnici is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. where he works on the JavaTM Platform, Enterprise Edition, with particular focus on Web Services and Ease of Development. He is the specification lead for the JAX-RPC 1.1 and JAX-WS 2.0 technologies and an active participant in W3C and WS-I working groups.

Mandy Chung

Mandy Chung is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. She is working on the Java SE monitoring and management and other serviceability technologies. She leads the design and the implementation of the java.lang.management API, out-of-the-box manageability, and also the JConsole monitoring tool. Prior to joining Sun, she was the lead engineer working in the linker and dynamic loader project in Hewlett Packard.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

Masoud Kalali

Masoud Kalali holds a software engineering degree and has been programming for the last 8 years. Experienced with .Net and some other languages, his platform of choice is Java. He is experienced in system design and server side development, and is interested in portal systems and related JSRs, and database Development.

Manveen Kaur

Manveen Kaur works in the Web Technologies and Standards area at Sun Microsystems.

She has been involved with the Web services effort at Sun since its inception and has contributed to multiple releases of WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, XML and WebServices Security, SAAJ, JAXM and Apache Tomcat. She has represented Sun in WS-I and OASIS interoperabiity events.

Her interests include Web Services interoperability, XML, and Web Technologies. Manveen holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke Kawaguchi is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has been working on XML and XML schema languages since 2001, in particular RELAX NG, W3C XML Schema, JAXB, and JAXP. He also hosts many projects on java.net. More information on him can be found at http://www.kohsuke.org/.

Patrick Keegan

Patrick Keegan has been writing about NetBeans IDE since just before NetBeans the company was acquired by Sun in 1999. He lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic, where he torments his colleagues with his taste in dated and marginal music.

Wonseok Kim

Wonseok Kim is a senior developer at TmaxSoft, South Korea. He works on the development of Tmax Application Server - very popular in Korea. He has been participated in JCP such as JSR 244 (Java EE 5) and JSR 220 (EJB 3.0). He is also a contributor to GlassFish project. Prior to Java EE he had developed NMS and OSS systems for telecommunications in Java. Now he has concerns primarily on EJB and persistence technologies and is working on them.

Onno Kluyt

Onno is a Sr. Director at Sun, the Chairperson of the Java Community Process and occasionally involved with various other Java communities. Onno joined Sun in May 1997. Before the JCP, he did product marketing for Project "Swing" and JavaBeans. In his free time he attempts to write Java code, rides bicycles and does photography.

Satya Komatineni

Satya Komatineni is the author of AspireJ2EE (http://www.activeintellect.com), an open source web development RAD tool for J2EE/XML. He is also the author of a public contnent managemetn/weblogging system called AKC (http://www.activeintellect.com/akc). He has published with ONJava.com, ONDotnet.com, XML Journal, Java Report, and Java Developers Journal. Currently Satya, in his capacity as CTO at Indent, Inc., is also a technical architect on a number of SBIR (Small business innovative research) phase-I awards. Satya's current research includes CMS/Blogging Systems, Universal Data Tiers, Java, C#, COM+, J2EE, XML,Relational Databases, Frameworks, SVG, Web Charting, Universal IDEs, Transformational languages (JSP, XSL, awk), and Better software architectures. Satya holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from IIT, New Delhi, 1986. The companies he has consulted with include IBM, Millipore, CSX, Ryder, Bax Global, Harland, and TNT Logistics, NA.

Jitendra Kotamraju

Jitendra Kotamraju is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has been working in java webservices, including JAXRPC, JAXWS, SAAJ implementations. He has extensive experience in distributed, and networking technologies.

Mark Lam

Mark Lam was previously a virtual machine engineer in the JavaME CDC team at Sun Microsystems for 8 years. Before joining Sun, he was a real-time embedded systems developer for 6+ years, working on application frameworks, graphics systems, networking protocols, game development, and fault tolerant systems amongst other things, on devices ranging from 64KB 8bit uControllers to 32-bit RISC machines. Currently, Mark is pursuing other interests in embedded development.

Felipe Leme

Felipe Leme has worked professionally with Java since 1996, and in the last years had became an active enthusiastic of the technology: he is a frequent speaker in the main Brazilian Java conferences, presented at JavaOne for 3 years in a row, is a developer of a few Java-based open-source projects (like DbUnit and Jakarta Cactus), and is an individual member of the Java Community Process, where he took part of the JSP 2.1 and Java EE 5.0 expert groups.

He is a father of two, and in his spare time likes to assemble jigsaw puzzles and collect Marvel comic books with his older son, Thomas. He used to scuba dive as well, but have not dove yet in this new millennium.

Currently, he works as an independent consultant and Java instructor in Brazil, but is planning to move back to the US, where he worked from 1999 to 2002.

Brian Leonard

Brian Leonard works as a senior software engineer with Sun Microsystems. He's been working with application servers before there was a J2EE standard, helping develop applications as well as the servers that run them. Until most recently, Brian's been focused on helping large enterprises implement and deploy highly-available architectures. In his current role, Brian is an evangelist for the NetBeans open source IDE.

Elie Levy

Elie Levy is a big fan of Java Technologies, and software development in general. His working experience is primarly in the server side, implementing business logic, defining EJB components, and providing an architectural direction. He is the creator of the Zilonis Rules Engine open source project hosted in java.net. Recently he got more interested on the client side, building rich client applications using Swing.

Qusay H. Mahmoud

Qusay H. Mahmoud is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Guelph in Canada. He has presented technical tutorials at international conferences worldwide. He has published two Java books: Distributed Programming with Java (Manning Publications), and Learning Wireless Java (O'Reilly) that have been translated into Korean, Czech, and Simplified Chinese. Qusay holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Middlesex University in England.

Neto Marin

Neto Marin is one of the founders of JME Brasil and a Team Leader of Integration and Mobile Solutions at Softway. He has been working with mobile development since 2005 and is now involved in growing the JME community in Brazil, while still working with personal mobile projects.

Joshua Marinacci

Joshua Marinacci first tried Java in 1995 at the request of his favorite TA and never looked back. He has spent the last ten years writing Java user interfaces for wireless, web, and desktop platforms. After tiring of web programming at a certain home improvement retail center, a wireless carrier, and a document management company he joined the Swing team at Sun to finally get back to into high quality user interfaces. Joshua recently co-authored O'Reilly's Swing Hacks with Chris Adamson. He also leads the Flying Saucer open source project and helps out with JDIC and SwingLabs. Joshua holds a BS in Computer Science from Georgia Tech and recently moved to San Jose, California.

Carol McDonald

As a Java Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems, Carol McDonald has spoken at various conferences including JavaOne, Java University, Sun Tech Days, Sun Network, Sun Code Camps, JDJEdge, and JUGs including Machester, Boston, Maine, Cologne, FAA, Richmond, Memphis, D.C... Carol blogs about the latest technologies that she is speaking about at http://weblogs.java.net/blog/caroljmcdonald/. Before returning to Sun in 2007, Carol worked 2 1/2 yrs as an Architect on massive OLTP Spring/hibernate application to manage > 10 mill loans for the consumer credit division of a leading automoblile manufacturer and a leading bank. Before joining Sun the first time in 1999 Carol worked on Pharmaceutical Intranet applications for Roche in Switzerland, a Telecom Network Management Application for Digital (now HP) in France, a X.400 Email Server for IBM in Germany, and as a student intern for the National Security Agency. Carol holds a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Tennessee, a B.S. in Geology from Vanderbilt University, and is a Sun Certified Java Architect and Java Language Programmer. Carol is also Fluent in French and German.

Eamonn McManus

Eamonn McManus is the technical lead of the JMX team at Sun Microsystems. As such he heads the technical work on JSR 255 (JMX API 2.0) and JSR 262 (Web Services Connector for JMX Agents). In a previous life, he worked at the Open Software Foundation's Research Institute on the Mach microkernel and countless other things, including a TCP/IP stack written in Java. In an even previouser life, he worked on modem firmware in Z80 assembler. He is Irish, but lives and works in France and in French. His first name is pronounced Aymun (more or less) and is correctly written with an acute accent on the first letter, which however he long ago despaired of getting intact through computer systems.

Igor Medeiros

Igor Medeiros is a Brazilian Java Card specialist, working on it since 2003. He promotes Java Card as a speaker and writer in Brazil. He uses to help academic students in their thesis on smart cards and Java. He works at the research institute LSITEC and spends his free time on Photography and as a volunteer assisting homeless people.

Bhakti Mehta

Bhakti Mehta is a Member of Technical Staff at Sun Microsystems. She is currently working on the implementation of WS-Reliable Messaging to interoperate with Microsoft Windows Communication Foundation. Previously she has worked in JAXB and JAXP Reference Implementations. She has a Masters in Computer Science from State University of New York at Binghamton and a Bachelors in Computer Engineering from Mumbai University.

Claudio Miranda

Claudio Miranda works as a consultant for Summa Technologies and has participated in some large projects in Brazil for financial and telco companies. He has 6 years of experience working with the java platform and has been a member of SouJava JUG since 2002. He has participated as speaker in some events (including JavaOne 2002), also helps some opensource projects in beta testing, forum and mailing lists, bugfixes, etc. He enjoys learning new trends in java development, architecture, web frameworks and looks forward to sharing his views with you here in English or on his Portuguese blog.

John D. Mitchell

John D. Mitchell is the Chief Architect of Krugle -- a search engine for developers. Along with developing and rescuing distributed enterprise systems, John advises investors and executives on technology and high-tech companies. Over the past 15 years, he has been the CTO of ElasticMedia, HealthLogic.com, jGuru and the MageLang Institute. John co-authored Making Sense of Java: A Guide for Managers and the Rest of Us. He was the founder and contributing editor of the Tips & Tricks column at JavaWorld. John writes extensively on complex systems, development processes, computer languages and protocols, open source and intellectual property, and technological business risk management.

Rajiv Mordani

Rajiv Mordani is a senior engineer at Sun Microsystems, working on the web technologies as an architect. Rajiv has been involved in the open source community at Apache with xerces and tomcat in the past doing implementation and also as the JAXP specification lead. He is currently the specification lead for Servlets.

Simon Morris

Simon Morris started coding professionally back when 1 MB of RAM was considered decadent. He eked a living writing games for a while, before winding up scribbling R+D code at a top UK university. In early 1996 he discovered Java, drawn immediately to its latent potential - which, he reckons, it still hasn't even begun to tap. He now owns a laptop with more than 1 Mb of RAM (but doesn't like to boast about it).

Masood Mortazavi

Masood Mortazavi wrote his first Java applet, including a motion planning algorithm to navigate through 2-d obstacles on a plane, to examine the limits of Java Programming in 1995. He joined Java Software in 1999 as part of the original J2EE team. He developed distributed transaction hooks in RMI-IIOP and led the development team for GIOP 1.2 upgrade. As a member of the carrier-grade J2EE project at Sun, he started a number of collaborations with SMI's mobile telecommunications partners. Masood has worked at Nasa Ames (Sterling Software), on DARPA projects (Teknowledge Corp.) and on satellite ground systems (Hughes). He has graduate degrees in business (Berkeley), journalism (Berkeley) and scientific computing (Ph.D. in computational fluid dynamics). He did several years of graduate work in logic and methodology of science at Berkeley. Currently, he manages a team of Sun engineers who contribute to open-source database communities such as Apache / Derby and PostgreSQL. He maintains a separate weblog at blogs.sun.com.

Carla Mott

Carla Mott is a contributor on Project jMaki, editor on The Aquarium webblog, a Java Enterprise Community leader on java.net and a committer on Dojo, an open-source JavaScript toolkit. Previously, she was a project owner for Project GlassFish where she helped to open source Sun's application server and to build the GlassFish community. She has been at Sun for 12 years, worked on the application server technologies since 1999 and has had the opportunity to speak at JavaOne for the last 4 years.

Sean Mullan

Sean Mullan is a staff engineer at Sun Microsystems working on Java Security and focused on the areas of PKI, XML Security, and access control. He was specification lead of JSR 55 (Certification Path API) and is currently co-specification lead of JSR 105 (XML Digital Signature API).

Sreenivas Munnangi

Sreenivas Munnangi is a senior member of the Sun Java Application Server Administration and Management team. He is also the java.net project owner for glassfish-samples project. He was a key contributor to the Application Server Enterprise Edition design and implementation. His earlier experience was in the areas of eCommerce applications, web applications, and N-tier application architecture.

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy

Sivasubramanian Muthusamy is a graduate in business from India, living in India, with over 17 years of business experience, now working on designing an X86 standalone of optimal hardware components for Solaris 10 and the Sun Java Desktop System. Would work on streamlining the GUI to make the Operating System as easy as any other operating system in the world, incomparably secure.

Billy Newport

Billy Newport is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been at IBM since 2001. Billy was the lead on the WorkManager/ Scheduler APIs which were later standardized by IBM and BEA and are now the subject of JSR 236 and JSR 237. Billy lead the design of the WebSphere 6.0 non blocking IO framework (channel framework) and the WebSphere 6.0 high availability/clustering (HAManager). Billy currently works on WebSphere XD and ObjectGrid. He's also the lead persistence architect and runtime availability/scaling architect for the base application server.
Before IBM, Billy worked as an independant consultant at investment banks, telcos, publishing companies and travel reservation companies. He wrote video games in C and assembler on the ZX Spectrum, Atari ST and Commodore Amiga as a teenager. He started programming on an Apple IIe when he was eleven, his first programming language was 6502 assembler.
Billys current interests are lightweight non invasive middleware, complex event processing systems and grid based OLTP frameworks.

Ethan Nicholas

Ethan Nicholas is the lead engineer for the Yahoo! Publishing Tools team, and was the original author of the Swing-based Yahoo! SiteBuilder web design application. In his spare time he is developing JAXX, an XML-based user interface language for creating Java desktop applications.

Dana Nourie

Dana Nourie is a Sun Microsystems staff writer and editorial manager of the Java SE hub, the New to Java Programming Center, Java Technology Fundamentals, and Core Tech Tips. She also gives chats for developers in the Sun Developer Playground in Second Life.

John O'Conner

John O'Conner is a software architect, consultant, author, and speaker. After many years developing the internationalization features of the Java platform at Sun Microsystems, he is now actually trying to use those features in real world projects.

Brian O'Neill

Brian O'Neill is a Technical Architect for Gestalt, LLC, where he is lead on a development effort to create a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based on peer-to-peer (P2P) technologies. Brian sits on multiple expert groups within the Java Community Process (JCP) including specifications for the SIP protocol, the Service Logic Execution Environment (SLEE) and the Java Business Integration (JBI) API. He holds patents in artificial intelligence and has pending patents in the fields of dynamic application data routing and discovery. Brian holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Brown University. Additionally, Brian founded SourceEquity, which is an effort to make Open Technology Development a viable and profitable business model for all involved.

Scott Oaks

Scott Oaks works in the Java Performance group at Sun Microsystems, where he focuses on the performance of Java Enterprise Edition. He has worked with Java technology since 1996 and is the co-author of four books in the O'Reilly Java Series, including Java Threads (now in its third edition).

Vivek Pandey

Vivek Pandey is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He works on XML and Web Services technologies. He has represented Sun at WS-I and W3C WSDL Working Group. He is involved with various java.net projects, such as JAX-WS RI, Metro, WSIT, Hudson and Glassfish. Currently he is technical lead of scripting languages support in Glassfish.

Alexander Potochkin

Alexander Potochkin is an engineer on the Swing team. He enjoys solving puzzles, traveling to different countries and always returning to Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Rama Pulavarthi

Rama Pulavarthi is a Member of Technical Staff in the Java Web Services group at Sun Microsystems. He currently works on the development of JAX-WS Reference Implementation. He has previously lead the Software Quality Engineering effort of JAX-RPC. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Auburn University in Alabama and Bachelors in Electronics and Communication from JNTU Hyderabad.

John Reynolds

John Reynolds is an Austin (as in Texas) based programmer who has been professionally developing software since 1980.� His primary focus has been on software usability and usefulness, dating back to his involvement with Tandy's DeskMate graphical environment in the late 80's.� Java is his current language of choice, superceding a long relationship with C++ and an early affair with the irrepressible FORTH.

Van Riper

Michael Van Riper has a Bachelors in Computer Science from MIT. Van has more than 25 years of experience as a software engineer in Silicon Valley. He was a core member of the engineering team at Adobe that built the award winning Adobe PageMill web authoring program. Since 1999, he has focused on developing web applications in Java. He is currently a Principal Engineer at Krillion in Mountain View, California. He is also the founder and co-leader of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG.

Wolfram Rittmeyer

Wolfram Rittmeyer is a Senior Software Developer in a large company developing software for financial services. He has been working with Java since the second half of the nineties and has never seen back. His interests lie mostly in Java Enterprise technologies, free software and web related technologies like Comet and Ajax. Furthermore he likes to listen to gothic music and darkwave or to read a good book and he loves hiking and biking. Wolfram lives and works in Münster, a medium-sized German city, but he might also be seen at conferences in Europe that have to do with free software and/or Java like FOSDEM or JavaPolis.

Sahoo

Sahoo is an engineer at Sun Microsystems, working in Java EE application server development engineering group. He contributes to glassfish project. Besides that he is also involved in writing a portability checking tool for Java EE applications. Prior experiences include working in C++ language binding for an object database management system, developing enterprise applications using CORBA & messaging middleware. Although his full name is Sanjeeb Kumar Sahoo, he prefers to be called by his last name *Sahoo*.

Alexander Saint Croix

Alexander Saint Croix is a long-time Open Source Javangelist whose development interests range from rule engineering, aporetics, social relationship and reputation analysis to the attention economy, system theory, advanced testing design and fault tolerant network architectures. He's applied his formal background in writing to sundry publications in the tech sector over the last 5 years. After serving for several years as a training consultant and member of the Innovation Fellows board for the University of Minnesota, he is now one of their Network Analysts and hopes to pursue a formal graduate education in Computer Science.

Giovani Salvador

Giovani Salvador is one of the coordinators of the oldest JUG in Brazil, RSJUG, at the state of Rio Grande do Sul. He has worked as a university professor teaching Java and currently is a java architect at Dell in Porto Alegre, Brazil, where he is also doing his master's degree in computer science at Pontifical University Catholic. Giovani also owns SCJP and SCEA(I) as well as Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Michael Nascimento Santos

Michael Nascimento Santos is a seasoned developer with more than 8 years of experience with the Java platform, from J2ME to J2EE, and over 14 years of pratical programming experience. He co-leads JSR-310 (Date & Time API), is a Java Champion, an expert at 5 JSRs - JSR-207 (PD4J), JSR-250 (Common Annotations) and JSR-270 (Mustang/Java 6), JSR-296 (Swing Application Framework) and JSR-303 (Bean Validation) -, the java.net Community Manager for the JSR Community and a java.net blogger. He also helps to run SouJava, one of the largest JUGs in the world and collaborates with many open-source projects, such as Thinlet, AspectWerkz and genesis. He has spoken at many Java-related events, such as JavaOne 2003/2007, JustJava 2003/2004/2005/2006, Abaporu 2003, FISL 2004, COMDEX Brasil 2004, BrasilOne 2004 and Conexao Java 2005/2006.

Andreas Schaefer

Andreas Schaefer is a System Architect for J2EE at SeeBeyond Inc. working on the development of advance JCA resource adapters. He is a member of JSR-77 expert group and a former JBoss core developer. Currently he is focusing on AOP frameworks and how they can be used to create the next generation of an application server. These ideas and much more can be found on his personal weblog. Since Andy jr. became his boss in July 2002 he enjoys to be a father as much as he likes to investigate and solve problems with the computer.

Bhavani Shankar

Bhavani is a B.E. graduate in Computer Science from KREC (pka NITK) who has worked for Sun Microsystems since July 2001 as a software developer. He has worked on VPN technologies, Integration and Installer Projects, Mobile Access technologies and Application Server development project. His current responsibilities include adding new features to Application Verification Kit which is a toolkit used for portability checking of Java EE applications. He likes making friends, traveling, playing indoor games, listening to music, and watching movies.

John Ferguson Smart

John is a freelance consultant specialising in Enterprise Java, Web Development, and Open Source technologies, currently based in Wellington, New Zealand. Well known in the Java community for his many published articles, John helps organisations to optimize their Java development processes and infrastructures and provides training and mentoring in open source technologies, SDLC tools, and agile development processes. John is principal consultant at Wakaleo Consulting, a company that provides consulting, training and mentoring services in Enterprise Java and Agile Development.

Gregg Sporar

Gregg Sporar has been a software developer for over twenty years, working on projects ranging from control software for a burglar alarm to 3D graphical user interfaces. He has been using Java since 1998 and his interests include user interfaces, development tools, and performance profiling. He works for Sun Microsystems as a Technical Evangelist on the NetBeans project.

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas

Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas is a Technology Evangelist at Sun Microsystems. His general area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in mobility and security. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world and teaches graduate classes in the evening. He publishes a standards column and represents Sun at a number of standards bodies. He also serves in the organizing committee for several industry-wide technical conferences. Rags brings with him about 15 years of software development experience. He worked for Digital Equipment Corporation before joining Sun. He has worked on several technology areas, including internals of VMS, Unix and NT. Rags holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from the Center of Advanced Computer Studies at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. He enjoys running, hiking and eating, especially spicy food.

Daniel H. Steinberg

Daniel Steinberg runs dimsumthinking.com and is former editor-in-chief of java.net.

Marina Sum

Marina Sum is a staff writer for Sun Developer Network. She has been writing for Sun since 1989, mostly in the technical arena.

Evan Summers

Evan Summers studied mechanical engineering for 8 years, but still didn't know which way to turn a screw driver. So he tinkered with Java, and eventually found "that Swing." Now he lives in a shelter for Swing code junkies, and works on aptframework.dev.java.net.

Dionysios Synodinos

Dionysios is a senior web engineer at the Network Management Center of the NTUA and a freelance consultant. His research interests concern the area of Rich Internet Applications, Scalable Web Applications, Multi-channel access and Web Services. He is a frequent contributor to open source projects and a seasoned technical writer. When not spending quality time with his baby daughter he can be contacted at synodinos [AT] gmail.com
Dionysios homepage

Petar Tahchiev

Petar Tahchiev is a software engineer from Bulgaria, mainly woking with project automation tools like Ant, Maven(1x, 2x). He is also interested in web programming with JSP, Servlets, Struts framework, JSTL, and related technologies. He graduated Mathematician from the Sofia University, where now he leads number of different seminars, like Linear Algebra, Mathematical Analysis, Introduction To Java Programming. He has also authored articles about java programing and project automation, and is a constant lecturer at some of the biggest open-source conferences in Bulgaria.

Lucas Torri

Lucas Torri is a Brazilian software developer of a digital convergence company called Praesto Convergence, where he's worked with Java ME since 2005. He studies Computer Science at Federal University of Santa Catarina and is one of the owners of the Marge Project ( http://marge.dev.java.net). Besides Java related stuff, likes to read things about smart environments and to watch his favorite soccer team playing: Gr�mio FBPA.

Bernard Traversat

Dr. Bernard Traversat is the Director of the Advanced Development product organization at Sun Microsystems Inc.. Bernard has lead the development of a number of emerging and disruptive technologies: P2P network technology (Project JXTA), wireless and mesg networking, 3D immersive virtual world (Project Wonderland), 3D Desktop (Project Looking Glass), semantic web, content sharing network, consumer robotics, RFID and sensor network . He is evangelizing Sun new technologies and working with customers and partners. Previously he led Sun's effort in pervasive computing for small consumer devices. Prior to that, he worked at the NASA Ames Research Center on distributed-memory operating systems for massively parallel supercomputers. He has numerous technical publications in distributed-memory operating systems and resource management systems. Bernard co-authored the "JXTA in a Nutshell" book by O'Reilly Media.

Sekhar Vajjhala

Sekhar Vajjhala is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has been working on data binding for W3C XML Schema and is the specification lead for JAXB. He has represented Sun on the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Schema Work Plan Group. Prior to JAXB, he has worked on various security related technologies and specifications. He holds a B.S. in E.E. from I.I.T. Kanpur, India and M.S. in Computer Science from University of Wisconsin, USA.

David Van Couvering

David Van Couvering has spent his engineering career crossing the bridge between databases and the middle tier world of application servers, Java and distributed systems. He was the original architect for the Sybase J2EE application server and for the first release of the clustered Sun Java Application Server Enterprise Edition. Currently he is involved in database technology at Sun, working with the Clustra team in Norway, and is a committer to the Apache Derby open source database. He lives in Berkeley and his favorite pasttimes are coding, meditation and spending time with his daughter.

Tom White

Tom White is a committer on the Apache Hadoop project, and a member of the Lucene Project Management Committee. He works as an independent consultant specializing in Hadoop and distributed computing. He has been writing Java full time since 1996, and writing about Java since 2003 for O'Reilly, java.net and IBM's developerWorks. Outside programming Tom enjoys making his daughters laugh, and watching 1930s Hollywood films.

Daniel Wildt

Daniel Wildt is a software developer with 10 years of professional experience. Certified and experienced in Java, Delphi and Delphi.NET technologies, he also has been acting as a Coach for Agile Methodologies since the beginning of 2004. Daniel expertise in Agile is focused on eXtreme Programming, Scrum, Lean Development and Feature Driven Development. Disciplines like estimation, planning, control, management, quality assurance, continuous improvement and tools to support Agile implementations are topics that are always on the top list of interest. Daniel is teaching Software Quality and Programming Languages in Brazil, at FACENSA Faculty. Also teaching Programming Languages and Open Source technologies at Uniritter. Regarding community related activities, Daniel is leading Delphi Users Group Rio Grande do Sul, eXtreme Programming Rio Grande do Sul, and leading one community at java.net portal. Check more at the Global Education and Learning Community, the GELC, at http://edu-gelc.dev.java.net. He's also volunteering for JEDI, Java Education and Development Initiative, in Brazil., responsible to make this project grow in Rio Grande do Sul state, with the help of the local JUG, RSJUG, and DFJUG, the Java Users Group that is leading this project in Brazil.

Alex Winston

Alex Winston is a Senior Software Engineer with ComFrame Software Corporation located in Nashville, TN. He focuses on emerging open source technologies and design patterns and is activaly involved in the Middle Tennessee Java Users Group. He regularly participates in discussion and design of various technologies within the java community and evangalizes the choice that java provides

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