Thomas Van de Velde has extensive experience
developing high-traffic public-facing web sites across a wide range
of industries. As a consultant and project manager for one of the
leading global technology consulting firms, he has worked on
delivering the French online tax declaration and one of the United
States' largest sports sites. Thomas is passionate about finding
ways to leverage open source in the enterprise, and in his free
time tries to catch a wave in southern California where he lives
with his wife and daughter.
Bruce Snyder is a veteran of enterprise
software development and a recognized leader in open-source
software. Bruce has experience in a wide range of technologies
including Java EE, messaging, and serviceoriented architecture. In
addition to his role as a principal engineer for IONA Technologies,
Bruce is also a founding member of Apache Geronimo and a developer
for Apache ActiveMQ, Apache ServiceMix, and Castor, among other
things. Bruce serves as a member of various JCP expert groups and
is the co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo from Wrox
Press. Bruce is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences,
including the Colorado Software Summit, TheServerSide Java
Symposium, Java in Action, JavaOne, ApacheCon, JAOO, SOA Web
Services Edge, No Fluff Just Stuff, and various Java users groups.
Bruce lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his family.
Christian Dupuis is working for one of the
world's leading consulting companies and is a member of the
Technical Architecture capability group. Christian has been working
as a technical architect and implementation lead to design and
implement multi-channel, mission-critical financial applications
that leverage Spring and other open-source frameworks across all
tiers. Christian is co-lead of the Spring IDE open-source project
(http://springide.org), providing tool support for the Spring
Portfolio.
Sing Li (who was bitten by the microcomputer
bug in the late 1970s) has grown up in the Microprocessor Age. His
first personal computer was a $99 do-it-yourself Netronics COSMIC
ELF computer with 256 bytes of memory, mail-ordered from the back
pages of Popular Electronics magazine. A 25-year industry
veteran, Sing is a system developer, open-source software
contributor, and freelance writer specializing in Java technology
and embedded and distributed systems architecture. He regularly
writes for several popular technical journals and e-zines, and is
the creator of the Internet Global Phone, one of the very first
Internet phones available. He has authored and co-authored a number
of books across diverse technical disciplines including Geronimo,
Tomcat, JSP, servlets, XML, Jini, media streaming, device drivers,
and JXTA.
Anne Horton has worked in the software industry
for 24 years as a software engineer, textbook technical editor,
author, and Java architect. She currently works for Lockheed Martin
and spends her weekends working with Sing Li (author) and Sydney
Jones (editor) in developing bleeding-edge books such as this one.
You can email her at abhorton@comcast.net.
Naveen Balani works as an architect with IBM
India Software Labs (ISL). He leads the design and development
activities for the WebSphere Business Service Fabric product out of
ISL. He likes to research upcoming technologies and is a regular
contributor to IBM developer works covering such topics as web
services, ESB, JMS, SOA, architectures, open-source frameworks,
semantic web, J2ME, persuasive computing, the Spring series, AJAX,
and various IBM products. You can e-mail him at
naveenbalani@rediffmail.com.