Sing Li has grown up with the Microprocessor and
the Internet revolution. For two decades, Sing has been an active
author, consultant, instructor, entrepreneur, and speaker. His
wide-ranging experience spans distributed architectures, web
services, multi-tiered server systems, computer telephony,
universal messaging, and embedded systems. Sing has been credited
with writing the very first article on the Internet Global Phone,
delivering voice over IP long before it became a common reality.
Sing has participated in several Wrox projects in the past, has
been working with (and writing about) Java, Jini, and JXTA since
their very first available releases, and is an active evangelist
for the unlimited potential of P2P technology.
Before graduating from High School, Ben
Galbraith was hired by a major Silicon Valley computer
manufacturer to develop Windows-based Client-server applications
with international deployments and hundreds of users. In 1995, Mr.
Galbraith began developing for the web and fell in love with Unix,
vi, and Perl. After building countless web applications with Perl,
Ben discovered server-side Java in 1999 and his relationship with
Perl has sin ce become somewhat estranged. Mr. Galbraith is
presently a consultant in Provo, Utah. He regularly lectures,
evangelizes, and gives classes on Java technology. Ben has no
college degree but if he had the time he would study both ancient
and modern history.
Vivek Chopra has eight years of experience in
software design and development, the last two years of which have
been in web services and various XML technologies. He is the
co-author of Professional ebXML Foundations and Professional XML
Web Services (both from Wrox Press). He is also a committer for
UDDI4J, an open source Java API for UDDI. His other areas of
experience and interest include compilers, middleware, clustering,
GNU/Linux, and mobile computing. He is currently consulting in the
domain area of web services. Vivek holds a Bachelor''s degree in
Electronics and a Master''s in Computer Science, both from Pune
University, India.
Debashish Bhattacharjee is a principal
consultant with the Management Consulting Services unit of
PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He has 10 years of experience implementing
projects for Fortune 500 clients in the United States and Canada.
His areas of expertise are systems integration and project
management. He has served as chief architect and led technical
teams tasked with the implementation of e-commerce applications,
portal implementations, web infrastructure, ERP, and client-server
applications. In his role as consultant, Debashish is often
responsible for advising clients on best practices and the adoption
of technology. He is the published author of several industry
articles.
Sandip Bhattacharjee is an open source
enthusiast and an active participant in various Open Source
communities in India, especially his local LUG -Indian Linux Users
Group, Delhi(ILUGD). He has been programming right from his school
days in 1991, and some minor distractions like an engineering
degree in Textile technology and an MBA in marketing
notwithstanding, has remained true to the field. He has been
professionally involved in open source based technologies for the
past three years. He is currently a freelance programmer and
consults businesses on ways to use the open source revolution to
their advantage.
Chad Fowler is CTO of GE Appliances''
Bangalore, India. For the past four years, he has been an active
advocate of open source Java technologies in the enterprise,
revolving around the Enhydra suite of software. Driven into
software development by a less-than-healthy addiction to the video
game "Doom", he dropped his professional music career and never
looked back. His current interests focus on the Ruby programming
language, learning the Hindi (spoken/written--not programming)
language, and Agile Software Development methodologies.