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Alex Buckley is Computational Theologist at Sun Microsystems, responsible for the Java Language Specification and the Java VM Specification. He is currently spec lead for JSRs on modularity and annotations planned for Java SE 7. He has a PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College London.
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine is a member of the GlassFish team and has been acting as the ambassador for the project for the past couple of years. He has has been working at Sun Microsystems for over 10 years and is a regular speaker at development and JUG conferences such as Devoxx, CommunityOne, or JavaZone. He also spends quality time with customers, developers, and architects to better drive the evolution of Sun's middleware technologies. Alexis participates in various open source communities, translates Java & XML books into French, but also has a live outside of Java! "
Andy Schwartz is a software engineer at Oracle, where he has spent the last 16 years designing and developing user interface frameworks. Andy is currently one of the architects of ADF Faces, a JSF-based, AJAX-enabled framework and component set. Andy also serves as Oracle's representative to the JSR-314 (JSF 2.0) expert group.
Andy Wilkinson is a senior software engineer at SpringSource with almost ten years' experience of developing and supporting enterprise Java middleware. Andy joined SpringSource in 2007 where he is a member of the SpringSource dm Server development team. Prior to joining SpringSource Andy worked at IBM, where he led the development of WebSphere Application Server's transaction manager.
Antonio is a senior software architect specialized in Java/Java EE. As a consultant he advises customers in France and help them in defining their software architecture. Antonio is also the founder of the very successful Paris JUG and independent JCP member on JEE6 (JSR 316), JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) and EJB 3.1 (JSR 318). Based on all his experiences, he has written two books about Java EE 5 and recently on Java EE 6 with Glassfish. It explains, in a practical way, how to develop an application using most of the Java EE specifications.
Arjen Poutsma is a senior software engineer at SpringSource with fifteen years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both Java EE and Microsoft .NET. Three years ago, Arjen started to specialize in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period, he has worked for some of the largest organizations in the world helping them better understand enterprise Java and how SOAs fit into their organizations. In part from his experiences with these organizations, Arjen founded the open source Spring Web Services project and continues to lead the technical direction and development as the project lead for Spring Web Services. This project aims at facilitating development of document-driven web services. Currently, Arjen is working on the REST support for Spring 3.
Bill Venners is president of Artima Software, Inc. and editor-in- chief of Artima Developer. He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platforms architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Bill has been active in the Jini Community since its inception. He led the Jini Community ServiceUI project, whose ServiceUI API became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services.
Brian Goetz has been a professional software developer for more than twenty years. Brian is the author of the very successful 'Java Concurrency in Practice', and has written over 75 articles on Java development. He is one of the primary members of the Java Community Process JSR 166 Expert Group (Concurrency Utilities), and has served on numerous other JCP Expert Groups. Brian is a Sr. Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems.
Cameron Purdy is Vice President of Development at Oracle. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Purdy was the CEO of Tangosol, whose revolutionary Coherence Data Grid product provides reliable and scalable data management across the enterprise. Mr. Purdy has over ten years of experience with Javaô and Java-related technology. As a software visionary and industry leader, Mr. Purdy is a frequent presenter at industry conferences and has received a number of awards in recognition of his contribution to the Java community, including twice being named as a JavaOne RockStar and being recognized in TheServerSideís ìWhoís Who in Enterprise Javaî. He regularly participates in industry standards development and is a specification lead for the Java Community Process.
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Ceki Gülcü is the founder of several Open Source projects, including log4j, SLF4J and logback. His interests include software testing, security and reliability. He works as a software engineer at QOS.ch, a software development outfit located in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Chet Haase is a senior computer scientist on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, focusing on graphics issues and features. In a former life, he worked for Sun Microsystems as a client architect in the Desktop Java group, working with client technologies such as Java 2D, Swing, AWT, and deployment. He is coauthor with Romain Guy of the book Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications. He and Guy are presenting a session on filthy rich clients, beyond Java.
Chris Richardson is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is a Java Champion and the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks such as Spring and Hibernate. Chris is the founder of CloudFoundry.com and the Head of Cloud Computing at SpringSource, a division of VMware. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife and three children.
Christophe Coenraets is a technical evangelist for Adobe where he focuses on rich Internet applications and enterprise integration. He has been working on Flex since the early days of the product in 2003. In his previous role at Macromedia, Christophe worked on JRun, the company's J2EE application server. Before joining Macromedia, Christophe was managing Java and Internet applications evangelism at Sybase. Christophe has been a regular speaker at conferences worldwide for the last 15 years.
Christophe Herreman is a Senior Flex Consultant at Boulevart (a Cronos company). He has been working with Flash technology for over a decade and has seen it become the leading platform for creating Rich Internet Applications. For the last years, he has worked on enterprise projects in Flex and has made several contributions to the open-source community. He is the founder and lead developer of Spring ActionScript, an offshoot of Java Spring, which is an ActionScript 3.0 framework and Inversion of Control container that can be used for Flex, Flash and AIR development.
Dan Allen is a passionate Java EE software developer, consultant, and author of Seam in Action with over eight years of development experience using technologies that include Java frameworks (Seam, JSF, EJB3, Hibernate, Spring, Struts), testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG), JavaScript and DOM scripting, CSS and page layouts, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, and many others.
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Don is an Integration Architect at Atlassian in Sydney, Australia, with a background in the commercial and US Department of Defense sectors. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and actively involved in several Apache projects starting with Struts in 2003. He has co-authored the book, Struts 2 in Action by Manning Publications, and occasionally speaks at Java and Open Source conferences including JavaOne, ApacheCon, TheServerSide Java Symposium, and local Java user groups.
Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer in IBM's Emerging Technology group. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has been working with markup languages, Web services and SOA technologies for many years. His job as a technology evangelist is to explain the standards and technologies behind Web 2.0 and to help customers integrate them into their overall business architectures and strategies. He is the author of many articles on IBM's developerWorks site (ibm.com/developerWorks), and is the author of O'Reilly's book on XSLT, the second edition of which is now available.
After graduating from Supelec (French "Grande Ecole"), Emmanuel has spent a few years in the retail industry as developer and architect where he started to be involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team in 2003 and is now a lead developer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat.
Eric Steegmans is a professor at the department of computer science of the K.U.Leuven. After a decade of research in compiler construction, he directed his research activities to the area of software engineering. Since the early nineties, his expertise is in object-oriented analysis, design and implementation. He is leading a small research group that experiments with new language concepts at different levels of abstraction. Since a few years, he is program director for the bachelor-master in informatics. He teaches basic courses on object-oriented programming in the bachelor informatics and the bachelor computer science. In the master programs, he is in charge of courses on object-oriented programming languages and on object-oriented analysis.
Erik Hatcher is an Apache Software Foundation member, and an active committer on the Lucene and Solr projects. Erik has co-authored the award-winning book Java Development with Ant (Manning) and the well reviewed Lucene in Action (Manning). Erik has spoken frequently at industry conferences, including JavaOne, ApacheCon, OSCON, and the No Fluff, Just Stuff symposium circuit. Erik co-founded and member of the technical staff of Lucid Imagination, a full service Lucene/Solr shop.
Frank D. Greco is the founder of the New York Java Special Interest Group (NYJavaSIG), one of the largest Java Users Groups (JUGs) on the planet with almost 5,000 active members in the local Java community. The NYJavaSIG has had some of the most famous Java luminaries speak at their meetings; including Java Champions: Rod Johnson, Brian Goetz, Doug Lea and Josh Bloch. Their members are very enthusiastic and, like most New Yorkers, don't hesitate to ask tough questions of their monthly speakers. Frank has a long history as a "Champion" of the Java Platform; he taught a developer track session at the very first Java Day back in September 1995 in New York and started the NYJavaSIG that afternoon. Frank has been involved with software development for over 10 years and has worked on sophisticated architectures, innovative user interfaces, mobile computing and next-generation collaborative financial systems. Frank is both a Java community leader as well as a luminary technologist working for Kaazing.
George Maggessy is a Principal Fusion Middleware Architect with more than twelve years of experience in consulting, software designing and development team leadership. George is currently helping Oracle development and customers around the world to implement the new Oracle's E2O Fusion Middleware Solution.
Gregor Hohpe is a software architect with Google, Inc. Gregor is a widely recognized thought leader on asynchronous messaging and service-oriented architectures. He co-authored the seminal book 'Enterprise Integration Patterns' (Addison-Wesley, 2004), followed by "Integration Patterns" and "Enterprise Solution Patterns", both published by Microsoft Press. He was nominated a Microsoft MVP (Most Valuable Professional) Solution Architect for his contributions to the developer community and recognized as an active member of the patterns community by the Hillside Group. In 2005, Joel Spolsky selected Gregor's article 'Starbucks Does Not Use Two-phase Commit' for his 'Best Software Writing' (APress)
Guillaume Laforge is the project lead of Groovy, the highly popular and successful dynamic language for the JVM. He co-authored Manning's best seller "Groovy in Action" with Dierk König, and is working for SpringSource (a division of VMWare) where he's working full time on cool and Groovy stuff. Guillaume worked hand in hand with the Google App Engine Java team before the official launch of the new platform to ensure that Groovy would run well on this new cloud. With this background in mind, he created Gaelyk, a lightweight toolkit for developing applications written in Groovy on Google App Engine, that he demonstrated at the Google I/O 2009 Conference. ou can meet Guillaume at conferences around the world where he evangelizes the Groovy dynamic language, Domain-Specific Languages in Groovy, and the agile Grails web framework.
Holly is a performance tooling developer within the IBM Java Technology Centre. She leads development on IBM Monitoring and Diagnostic Tools for Java™ - Health Center and was the author of the GC and Memory Visualizer tool. Her tooling work builds on her experience working as a performance engineer within the garbage collection development team. Holly has been with IBM for seven years. Before joining IBM, she completed a doctorate in quantum computation at the University of Oxford. She has spoken at a variety of industry events including JavaZone, The ServerSide Java Symposium, The Great Indian Developer Summit, and WebSphere User Groups.
Howard Lewis Ship is the creator and lead developer for the Apache Tapestry project, and the creator of the Apache HiveMind project. He has over nineteen years of full-time software development under his belt, with over ten years of Java. He cut his teeth writing customer support software for Stratus Computer, but eventually traded PL/1 for Objective-C and NeXTSTEP before settling into Java. Lately, he's been dipping his toes into alternate languages, including Clojure.
Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, the Unified Modelling Language and the Rational Unified Process. He has contributed to modern business modelling and aspect-oriented software development. Lately he has been working on a smarter way to deal with methods and tools in a superlight and agile way. He has developed a practice concept that is now being adopted by both developers and tool vendors. Right now he is working with a team of software leaders with the mission to build a widely-adopted, strong foundation under software engineering, tentatively called Methods Need Theory. He is the principal author of six influential and best-selling books. Ivar Jacobson is the chairman of Ivar Jacobson International which has subsidiaries in the US, UK, China, Singapore, Australia, Sweden and Canada.
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Technical Director at Progress Software working in the Open Source division (FUSE)
Jason is the founder of the Apache Maven project, the Plexus IoC framework, and the Apache Velocity project. Jason currently serves on the Apache Maven Project Management Committee. He has been involved with the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) for seven years, helped to found Codehaus, a well respected incubation facility for open source community projects, and is a frequent speaker at many major software conferences, including JavaOne, EclipseCon, EmergingTech, and ApacheCon.
Currently working as a engineer at Sun Microsystems on the Java Swing Team. There where I am working on JTable, Synth, Nimbus Look & Feel and various Java One talks. Prior to working at Sun I was working on a Java photo management application called Imagery for my own company Xerto. Imagery is a powerful piece of software for helping professionals manage large digital image collections. Built in Java with support for huge collections of hundreds of thousands of images and P2P server-less replicated collaboration.
Jean-Francois Arcand works for Sun Microsystems. He currently leads project Grizzly, an extended NIO based framework used in multiples products. He also works on Web 2.0 topics like Ajax performance and leads the Comet activities at Sun. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Québec where life is perfect.
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John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for 30 years. He started as a tape operator on an IBM mainframe while working for his high school computer club, and began his professional career at Exxon as an IT infrastructure analyst. He is the founder of four successful startups over the past 20 years and is currently the CEO of his self-funded Zabovo Corp. Willis is known internationally for his IT Management and Cloud blog. He also has two podcast series on clouds called 'Cloud Cafe' and 'Cloud Droplets'. Willis is also the co-host of Redmonk's 'IT Management Guys' podcast series.
Joram Barrez is a Java/JEE software engineer who recently joined JBoss, a division of Red Hat, as a jBPM core developer. He is extremely passionate about anything related to BPM and workflow systems. Before JBoss, he provided jBPM consultancy for several companies on the Belgian market, so he brings a lot of practical jBPM and BPM experience to the jBPM project. Currently, he is leading the BPMN 2 effort within the jBPM project. Joram is also one of the the co-founders of the Belgium JBoss User Group
Joe is currently the lead engineer of Project Coin, the effort to select and implement a set of small Java language changes for JDK 7. He also serves as a member of the JDK 7 release team. Concurrently, Joe continues to be the release manager, lead engineer, and quality lead for OpenJDK 6, an open source implementation of the Java SE 6 platform.A longtime member of the JDK engineering group, Joe was previously specification lead for JSR 269, the Pluggable Annotation Processing API, which delivered a standardized annotation processing API and mirror-based language model into JDK 6 to supersede the earlier apt tool from JDK 5. Joe assisted in implementing the JDK 5 language changes with work spanning core reflection, javac hacking, and general library support.
Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for a Large Financial Firm in Silicon Valley. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group and Assistant Organizer of the Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup. Prior to his current work, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T Corporation. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. He is also a core contributer for confetto.org, a web based real-time open source conference collaboration tool used at conferences such as: Silicon Valley Code Camp and Devoxx. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.
Kirk Pepperdine is the Chief Technical Officer at Kodewerk Ltd. and has been focused on Object technologies and performance tuning for the last 15 years. Kirk is a co-author of the book ANT Developers Handbook and editor at The Server Side.
Koen is business manager at Inxin. He has more than 10 years of Agile Experience mentoring and coaching successful teams. In the nineties Inxin adopted FDD and later XP, SCRUM and DSDM. We developed the Dimensional Planning technique to improve the existing Agile methods. He is also active in the Agile Community and is a board member at the Agile Consortium Benelux.
Ludovic Champenois is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and has been with Sun and Java for the last 13 years. He is one of the technical leads and architect on the OSGi based GlassFish Java EE 6 Application Server and is responsible to ensure best in class developer experience for Java EE programmers with GlassFish, NetBeans and Eclipse. He was the architect for the Java EE tooling in NetBeans 4.1, 5.0 and 5.5. Ludovic is also heavily involved in leading Sun's open source initiative: Projects jMaki (Ajax Framework), Phobos (Server Side JavaScript), OpenSolaris web stack (Apache, MySQL, PHP).
Maarten Cox (born, raised and living in Belgium) is a Flash Platform Consultant and Adobe Certified Flex with AIR Instructor working at iDA MediaFoundry.
Maiko Rocha joined Oracle Corporation in 1995. He has more than fourteen years of both consulting and development experience on the Oracle product stack, ranging from the database to application server to development tools. Currently working as a Consulting Solutions Architect, he is contributing as one of the architecture advisors for both Fusion Middleware and Fusion Applications.
Manik Surtani is a core R&D engineer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat. He is the founder of the Infinispan project, which he currently leads, and also leads the JBoss Cache project. His interests lie in cloud and distributed computing, autonomous systems and highly available computing. He has a background in artificial intelligence and neural networks, a field he left behind when he moved from academic circles to the commercial world. Since then, he's been working with Java-related technologies, first for a start-up focusing on knowledge management and information exchange, and later for a large London-based consultancy as a tech lead focused on e-commerce applications on large Java EE and peer-to-peer technology. Surtani is a strong proponent of open source development methodologies, ethos, and collaborative processes, and has been involved in open source since his first forays into computing.
Mark Halvorson is the "Chief Imagineer" and OpenSocial Evangelist at Atlassian Software - the makers of JIRA and Confluence. He has a long history working with portals and social enterprise software having worked in various capacities from software developer to technical marketer for Firepond, Plumtree, BEA and Oracle.
Mark Reinhold is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he works on the Java Platform, Standard Edition, and the OpenJDK Project. His past contributions to the platform include character-stream readers and writers, reference objects, shutdown hooks, the NIO high-performance I/O APIs, library generification, and service loaders. Mark was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 releases and the specification lead for Java SE 6. He is currently leading the Jigsaw and JDK 7 Projects in the OpenJDK Community. Mark holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Martijn Dashorst is a senior software engineer for Topicus B.V.. He is a committer on the Wicket project and works on many Wicket related projects. When he doesn't work with or on Wicket, he likes to spend time with his girlfriend and two cats.
Matt Casters is founder and primary sponsor of the Kettle project and is responsible for leading the architecture and delivery of Pentaho's Data Integration solutions. Matt has more than 15 years experience in data warehousing and business intelligence. His background as a Unix support professional, a programmer, and a database consultant, combined with the business knowledge he gained from leading BI implementations lead him to the create the Kettle (now Pentaho Data Integration) software platform.
Matthew Eernisse is a Web developer working primarily with JavaScript, Ruby, and Python, and has been building interactive Web applications for over a decade. He is author of the SitePoint book, "Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications." Matthew lives in San Francisco with his wife and three boys. Matthew plays the drums and speaks fluent Japanese.
Michael D. Ernst is an Associate Professor in the Computer Science and Engineering department at the University of Washington. Ernst's research aims to make software more reliable, more secure, and easier (and more fun!) to produce. His primary technical interests are in software engineering and related areas, including programming languages, type theory, security, program analysis, bug prediction, testing, and verification. Ernst's research combines strong theoretical foundations with realistic experimentation, with an eye to changing the way that software developers work. Dr. Ernst was previously a tenured professor at MIT, and before that a researcher at Microsoft Research.
Dr. Michael Kay is best known for his work on XML. Based in the UK, he is the editor of the XSLT specification and author of the definitive book on the language, and is also active on the standards group for XQuery and XML Schema. He is also the developer of the popular open-source Saxon software which implements these specifications. He gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1975 for work on database technology, and has retained links with the academic world, currently holding the position of Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Reading.
Nicolai Josuttis is an independent system architect, technical manager, author, and consultant. He designs mid-sized and large software systems for the telecommunication, traffic, finance, and manufacturing industries. He is well known both in the programming community and to attendees at various conferences because he not only speaks and writes with authority (being the (co-)author of the world-wide best-sellers The C++ Standard Library and C++ Templates) but is also an innovative presenter having talked at various conferences and events.
Nordin is a software developer for Cegeka. Graduated in 2001 at the Catholic University of Leuven, he started his career developing desktop applications using Swing. After some years of building web applications in both Java and Coldfusion, he gained a strong interest in rich internet applications and has been using Adobe Flex since version 2.0. He currently coordinates the Flex competence center at Cegeka.
Olav Maassen is Chief Engineer at QNH, the Netherlands and has nine years experience in IT doing projects mainly for financial institutions. He is co-author of "Applied Java Patterns". His main interest is in helping teams develop software more effectively. Olav strives for continuous improvement both for himself as for those he works with.
Patrick Chanezon manages the Client and Cloud Advocacy team at Google, making the web better as a development platform with open web standards, GWT, Google Appengine and a lot of coffee. He has been a Developer Advocate at Google since 2005, building and growing developer ecosystems for OpenSocial, Google Checkout and the AdWords API. Previously he has been working on portals, blogs and syndication feeds at Sun Microsystems, AOL and Netscape. He's the co-founder of the ROME java open source project and the OSSGTP (Open Source Get Together Paris) group. Patrick is french, so he takes long vacations in the summer and likes to drink red wine with baguette and stinky cheese while wearing a beret. Apart from programming and reading books and mangas, his main interest in life is spending time with his wife and 3 kids.
Dr. Paul C. Brown is a principal software architect at TIBCO Software Inc. and the author of Succeeding With SOA: Realizing Business Value Through Total Architecture and Implementing SOA: Total Architecture In Practice. His model-based tool architectures are the foundation of a diverse family of applications that design distributed control systems, process control interfaces, internal combustion engines, and NASA satellite missions. Dr. Brown's extensive design work on enterprise-scale information systems him to develop the total architecture concept: business processes and information systems are so intertwined that they must be architected together. Dr. Brown received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Paul Sandoz is the co-spec lead for JSR 311: JAX-RS: The Java API for RESTful Web Services and the implementation lead for the production quality reference implementation, Jersey. When the mood of verbosity arises Paul blogs on JAX-RS/Jersey
Pete Muir is the project lead for Seam, and the Web Beans RI, and is a lead developer on RichFaces, a Rich Ajax JSF component set. Pete also represents JBoss on the JSF 2.0 Expert Group. Pete is currently employed by JBoss, a division of Red Hat, as a core developer working on JBoss open source projects. Before working for Red Hat, Pete used and contributed to Seam whilst working for a UK based staffing agency as IT Development Manager.
Reinier Zwitserloot is the founder and lead developer of Tipit.to, a web service that enables tipjars on the web. He's been interested in programming language evolution ever since he started working with Java professionally 10 years ago. As a result, together with Roel Spilker he is the inventor of Project Lombok, a compiler/IDE plugin to bring the java programming language into the next decennium.
Remco Blom is an Enterprise Architecture consultant and one of the EA practice leaders within BiZZdesign. He actively contributes to the development of the software tools, training and consultancy propositions of BiZZdesign. As an EA consultant, Remco helps organizations across the globe in a range of industries like finance, government, education, construction etc. Remco works with different methods and has specific expertise in TOGAF and ArchiMate. He studied Business Administration and Organizational Design at Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
Richard is a longtime speaker and member of the Swing Team at Sun Microsystems. He has his roots as an application developer turned toolkit developer and is the lead of the component toolkit API for JavaFX. He is a frequent presenter and teams up frequently with other UI luminaries to produce demos for JavaOne and other conferences. As an application developer he had a specific penchant for databases and multi-tier design.
Director of Engineering at Progress Software working in the Open Source division (FUSE) Apache Member.
Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) has been a software professional since 1970 and an international software consultant since 1990. He is founder and president of Object Mentor Inc., a team of experienced consultants who mentor their clients worldwide in the fields of C++, Java, OO, Patterns, UML, Agile Methodologies, and Extreme Programming. In 1995 Robert authored the best-selling book: Designing Object Oriented C++ Applications using the Booch Method, published by Prentice Hall. From 1996 to 1999 he was the editor-in-chief of the C++ Report. In 1997 he was chief editor of the book: Pattern Languages of Program Design 3, published by Addison Wesley. In 1999 he was the editor of 'More C++\ Gems' published by Cambridge Press. He is co-author, with James Newkirk, of 'XP in Practice', Addision Wesley, 2001. In 2002 he wrote the long awaited 'Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices', Prentice Hall, 2002. In 2003 he wrote 'UML for Java Programmers' published by Prentice Hall. He has published hundreds of articles in various trade journals, and is a regular speaker at international conferences and trade shows.
Roberto Chinnici is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. and the specification lead for the Java Platform Enterprise Edition 6. Previously he was the specification lead for JAX-WS 2.0 and JAX-RPC 1.1 and an active participant in W3C and WS-I working groups.
Roel Spilker is a technology evangelist at TOPdesk. He's been a professional java programmer and teacher since 1999. Roel has been a fan of compile-time checking. His first open source project to leverage the compiler was the SPI project which simplifies the usage of the Service Provider API. Together with Reinier Zwitserloot he is the inventor of Project Lombok, a compiler/IDE plugin to bring the java programming language into the next decennium.
Roger Kitain is a specification lead for JSF 2.0 (JSR 314). He has been involved with JSF since its inception and has been involved in the web technology space since 1997.
Romain has a long experience developing rich desktop user interfaces in Swing. He now works at Google on the Android mobile platform project, as a UI toolkit engineer. His other experiences include working in the Swing team at Sun Microsystems, publishing Filthy Rich Clients, a book on advanced Swing user interfaces, speaking at various conferences (JavaPolis, JavaOne, etc.), blogging extensively about Swing and Java 2D and working on various Open Source project (Android, SwingLabs, etc.)
Ross Mason is Co-founder and CTO of MuleSource, Inc., the creators of the open source Mule integration platform. Prior he was CEO of SymphonySoft Limited, an EU-based company providing services for large-scale integration projects. Mason founded the Mule project in 2003. Mule is used by top-tier financial institutions as well as many other Fortune2000 enterprises. Previously, Mason was Lead Architect for RaboBank and played a key role in developing one of the first large-scale ESB implementations in 2001. Mason has also worked with NatWest Bank, Credit Suisse and UBS.
Sam Brodkin is an American freelance technologist living as a Dutch citizen in Rotterdam. He has lent his deep technical knowhow and contagious enthusiasm to loads of J2EE projects in the last 10 years. He is the founder of the Dutch Google Technology User Group and has been knighted as "Sam-a-lot" by the illustrious J-Knights JUG. Sam's professional career began at Sun Microsystems promoting server-side Java technologies. He went on to teach corporate Java training seminars for companies like Sun and Oracle. His current focus and expertise lies in cutting edge J2EE development with special attention to testability and beautiful coding. Sam has recently stuck his head in The Cloud and welcomes you to join him there.
Sang Shin is presently working for Sun Microsystems as a Technology architect, consultant, and evangelist. He speaks on various Java and Solaris related technologies to worldwide developer audience. He is currently based in Boston area and his duties include evangelizing and consulting on important Java technologies such as Java EE (formerly J2EE), Java SE (formerly J2SE), Java ME (formerly J2ME), Web-tier frameworks and technologies such as JavaServer Faces (JSF), Struts and AJAX, and SOA and Web services technologies. He also speaks frequently on NetBeans IDE and platform. He frequently talks on these topics in various technical conferences.
Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development in IBM's Methods Group. He is the founder of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies.
Originally from Scotland, Scott Stevenson is a freelance software consultant based in Brussels. He has over 20 years experience in the IT industry as a project manager, developer and architect. Most recently he has specialised in Java Server Faces, RichFaces, Ajax and related technologies, implementing pragmatic solutions for several major clients in the Benelux. Scott is a member of the elite J-Knights JUG.
Serge Jespers (born, raised and living in Belgium) has been working with Flash for over 10 years now. 5 of which he worked for the largest media company in Belgium doing award-winning online projects for TV-shows like Idols, Big Brother, Miss Belgium, and more. Since early 2004 he's been an Adobe certified freelance Flash designer/developer. He's one of those guys who thinks you can do anything with Flash. From displaying SMS-messages on TV to motion tracking museum installations to mobile live traffic updates to personalized Flash video projects.
Simon Ritter specializes in looking at emerging technologies including grid computing, RFID, wireless sensor networks, robotics and wearable computing. Simon has been in the IT business since 1984 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from Brunel University in the U.K. Originally working in the area of UNIX development for AT&T UNIX System Labs and then Novell, Simon joined Sun in 1996 and started working with Java technology; he has spent time doing both Java development and consultancy.
Staffan Nöteberg is a Java programmer, Agile coach, conference speaker and now also an author - as his book Pomodoro Technique Illustrated will soon be published by The Pragmatic Bookshelf. He lives in Stockholm, Sweden and Istanbul, Turkey. And he's not only focused on his own productivity; he's also passionate about helping all kind of office people to improve their personal time management.
Open-source developer and agile manager, Stephen Chin is founder of numerous open-source projects including WidgetFX and JFXtras and Director of Software Engineering at Inovis in Emeryville, CA. He has been working with Java desktop and enterprise technologies for over a decade, and has a passion for improving development technologies and process. Stephen's interest in Java technologies has lead him to start a Java and JavaFX focused blog that is targeted at early technology adopters. He's also the co-author of the Pro JavaFX Platform book.
Mr. Harris has degrees from George Washington University and UC Berkeley. After more than 10 years in scientific and engineering computing and consulting areas, he spent three years working on document management and systems integration. In 1993, he co-founded a software startup providing an object-oriented database product to Smalltalk developers (a precursor to Java). He sold the company to ParcPlace-Digitalk and served as VP of Engineering of that publicly-held company. He joined Oracle in 1997 to manage development of the Java virtual machine for the Oracle8i release. Since then, his role has expanded to include the entire J2EE platform in the Oracle Application Server and Web Logic Server product. This includes EJB, Servlets, JSPs, JDBC drivers, SQLJ, TopLink, and web services support in both the application server and database
Timothy Perrett is a UK based developer and architect currently working for a division of Xerox Corporation in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Having worked in and around manufacturing and workflow systems for nearly 7 years, he has wealth of experience building machine automation and writing system integration middleware. Tim is an active committer on the Scala "Lift" project and has been for the past two years and is responsible for Lift's various 3rd party integration modules and localization.
Tom Baeyens is the founder and lead developer of JBoss jBPM, an open source workflow, BPM and orchestration engine. He is an employee of Red Hat and participates in the Java Community Process.
Tor Norbye is a principal engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he has worked on development tools since 1996, most recently on the Ruby and JavaScript editors in the NetBeans IDE. He is also a cohost of the weekly Java Posse podcast and specification lead for Java Specification Request (JSR) 273. As a JavaOne rock star, he lives the lifestyle by ending each and every programming session with a five-minute keyboard-smashing ceremony before storming offstage.
Virgil Dodson is a Developer Evangelist at Actuate Corporation (sponsor of the open source BIRT project) and blogger/forum moderator at the BIRT Exchange community site. Virgil has over 13 years experience as a software developer. For the past 6 years he has helped Java developers get started with Actuate's embedded reporting products. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from DeVry.