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Alex Ruiz is a Software Engineer in the development tools organization at Oracle, working in the core platform that JDeveloper and SQL Developer are based on. Alex enjoys reading anything related to Java, testing, OOP, AOP and concurrency and has programming as his first love. Before joining Oracle, Alex was a consultant for ThoughtWorks
Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine is a GlassFish evangelist. He has 10 years of customer-facing java experience and is now the two-way link between the core GlassFish developers and the broader community which involves presenting in various conferences around the world. Alexis is an editor of "The Aquarium" blog and a reviewer and translator of various Java and XML books. Alexis lives in Paris, France.
Bob is the Chief Architect at Nexaweb and is responsible for platform and tool technology, a provider of the Nexaweb Enterprise Web 2.0 Suite enabling enterprise class rich Internet applications (RIAs). He is also a committer on the Apache XAP Project, which provides an extensible framework for declaratively creating Ajax applications. Before Nexaweb, Bob was with Trakus, a technology company focused on tracking sports in real time. A leading expert in user interface design, he is a regular speaker at industry events and has published multiple articles on tool and application development.
Bob Lee is a Google software engineer in Mountain View, CA. "I code, I write, and I speak. I make babies (one so far). I take pictures." He's the founder of the Guice framework and involved with the Java Web Beans specification (JSR-299).
Bruce Eckel (www.BruceEckel.com) is the author of Thinking in Java (Prentice-Hall, 1998, 2nd Edition, 2000, 3rd Edition, 2003, 4th Edition, 2005), the Hands-On Java Seminar CD ROM (available on the Web site), Thinking in C++ (PH 1995; 2nd edition 2000, Volume 2 with Chuck Allison, 2003), C++ Inside & Out (Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1993), among others. He's given hundreds of presentations throughout the world, published over 150 articles in numerous magazines, was a founding member of the ANSI/ISO C++ committee and speaks regularly at conferences. He provides public and private seminars & design consulting in C++ and Java.
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 Service Oriented 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 and Beginning Spring Framework 2 both from Wrox Press. Bruce lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his family.
Until September 2006, Segers managed the Belgian division of the software concern Microsoft. Earlier in his career, he also worked for Oracle, Lotus and IBM. As from June 2007, Bruno Segers is Real's COO in Belgium and the Netherlands. He also advises Ashley Abdo, CEO of Real, on the local and international growth strategy of the company.
Carl Quinn, a senior Google engineer and co-host of the JavaPosse.com
Charles Nutter has been a Java developer since 1996, recently working as the senior Java architect at Ventera Corp and in September moved to Sun to work full-time on JRuby! He led the open-source LiteStep project in the late 90s and came to Ruby in the fall of 2004. Since then he has been a member of the JRuby team, helping to make it a true alternative Ruby platform. Charles presented JRuby at RubyConf 2005 and co-presented at JavaOne 2006 with Thomas Enebo. He hopes to co-write a JRuby book this fall with Thomas to follow up a planned JRuby 1.0 release. Charles currently works on a Ventera contract for the USDAs Food and Nutrition Service at their office in Minneapolis.
Chet Haase is a Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) client architect in the Java Desktop Group. He works with the client teams to make Java technology on the desktop more productive, useful, and successful. This means tracking desktop application development in general and making sure that Java software meets and hopefully exceeds developer requirements. His background is in graphics, both 2D and 3D, so he tend to focus more on graphics-specific issues in general, such as performance and graphical effects for GUI toolkits.
Chris Matts is a project manager and business analyst with over ten years experience developing trading and risk systems for Investment Banks including JP Morgan Chase, BNP Paribas and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein.
Christoph Rooms worked at SilverStream from 1998 to 2002. Silverstream was one of the first J2EE application server players and got acquired by Novell. In 2002 Christoph joined Adobe and became a product specialist for the LiveCycle platform. He's involved in enabling the technical sales team in Europe and acting as an Enterprise Technical Evangelist for Adobe LiveCycle, Flex and AIR.
Danny Coward lives and works from home in San Francisco, California. He has worked at Sun Microsystems since 1997 and is the Platform Lead for Java SE, and Sun's Java SE/EE representative on the Executive Committee for the Java Community Process.
After receiving a Master in Computer Science at K.U.Leuven and doing research on (privacy preserving) data mining algorithms in H.I.V. research, Darek Krzywania became a project manager at Dolmen Computer Applications. The past three years Darek has been applying several project management frameworks / methodologies. Thirtheen sprints ago he started using the Scrum framework in a software development project which made him a strong Scrum / agile believer. Currently he's introducing Scrum in a hard- and software migration project.
He holds a degree in Electronics and Computer Science from the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK. His first book, "Agile Management for Software Engineering" was published in September 2003 by Prentice Hall Professional Technical Reference, Upper Saddle River, New York. He has six U.S. Patents and another five pending for his work in telecoms and the Internet. He lives in Seattle, Washington.
David Nuescheler is responsible for the technology strategy and ongoing product development at Day Software in Switzerland.
I co-host a podcast called the Java Posse at javaposse.com, with three other Java guys, Tor Norbye, Carl Quinn and Joe Nuxoll.
Dion Almaer now works at Google on the Gears project and the Google out reach program. He is an architect, mentor, pragmatic, and evangelist of technologies such as J2EE, JDO, AOP, and Groovy. He is the Editor-in-Chief of TheServerSide.com J2EE Community and enjoys working in the community. He is a member of the Java Community Process, where he participates on various expert groups.
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.
Emmanuel is a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the JSR 303: Bean Validation expert group. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and JUGs, including JavaOne, JBoss World and JAX.
Erich Gamma is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He is one of the leaders of the Jazz project. He was the original lead of the Eclipse's Java development environment (JDT) and is on the Project Management Committee for the Eclipse project. Erich is also a member of the Gang of Four, which is known for its classical book, Design Patterns - Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. He has collaborated with Kent Beck on developing JUnit and on writing the book Contributing to Eclipse: Principles, Patterns, and Plug-ins.
Erwin Geirnaert holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Ghent. His affinity with J2EE started at The Reference NV where he was responsible for the roll-out of J2EE and WebSphere as a full-blown development platform. He designed secure J2EE architectures for various clients and became an active member of the WebSphere User Group. After his J2EE adventure, he joined Ascure NV as an IT Security Technology Specialist, specialized in application security. He completed succesful security audits and penetration tests for different clients and created and taught the course "Web Application Security". He is a certified WebSphere System engineer, Certified Information Systems Security Professional and Certified Information Systems Auditor. Because he is a born enterpreneur he co-founded ZION SECURITY, a company specialised in application security. ZION SECURITY helps companies to assess and protect their applications.
Fabrizio took the Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1998 at the University of Genoa, researching on the industrial applications of Java technology, which he has been working with since the very alpha releases in 1995. In those years he started holding technical seminars and writing technical articles about the evolving Java technology.
Filip is a senior software engineer at Ordina Belgium with 6 years of experience in Java and J2EE. He has a strong interest for agile development, code quality and unit testing. For the past years, he has been responsible for quality and unit testing on different enterprise projects.
Francois Orsini is a senior staff engineer and Java DB (based on Apache Derby) evangelist at Sun Microsystems, with 18 years' experience in databases and infrastructure development. His expertise is in distributed data management systems, security, resource management, HA cluster solutions, and connectivity services. Francois spent 8 years at Sybase as a senior engineer working on the SQL Server core engine. He also worked at Cloudscape, Inc. as a technical lead, where he designed and implemented connectivity, security and middleware services for the
Frank Suykens - a PhD in computer graphics from the University of Leuven - is Product Manager at Luciad, a leading international software company specializing in Java components for high end 2D and 3D visualization. Leading a team of expert Java software engineers he is responsible for all product management, including API design, performance and technology, combining the power and ease of Java development with high performance graphics.
Gaël Blondelle is CTO and co-founder of EBM WebSourcing. Gaël is Chairman of the OW2 Technology Council where he actively contributes to OW2 community. He is the founder of PETALS, the open source JBI compliant ESB hosted by OW2.
Geert is a senior developer at Terracotta Inc., is the CEO and founder of Uwyn bvba/sprl and created the RIFE project which provides a full-stack Java Web application framework for quickly building maintainable applications. He started or contributed to open-source projects like Bla-bla List, OpenLaszlo, Drone, JavaPaste, Bamboo, Elephant, RelativeLayers, and Gentoo Linux. Geert is also an official Sun Java Champion.
Grazia Cazzin, the SpagoBI Project Leader, is a Senior Solution Architect and Business Intelligence Analyst. With over 15 years of experience in enterprise application development, data modelling, data warehousing, dimensional analysis and business intelligence, she has gained valuable expertise working in several market sectors (industry, finance, public administration), covering several thematic areas (ERP, MRP, MPS, Enterprise Portals, CRM, DWH and BI). She collaborates with some Italian Universities sharing knowledge and experiences in the Business Intelligence domain. She's currently working in designing the SpagoBI evolutionary steps and in supporting the start-up of SpagoBI projects for enterprises.
As the official Groovy Project Manager and Spec Lead of JSR-241, standardizing the Groovy dynamic language, Guillaume LaForge spends his spare time bringing a versatile and agile environment to the masses and intiated the seed of Grails, the Groovy and Spring framework. He has co-authored Manning's successful Groovy in Action along with Dierk Koenig, one of the passionate Groovy developers.
Guy is heading GigaSpaces' research & development team. Prior to joining GigaSpaces, Guy has had over 10 years of experience in Software Development at leading technology organizations where he held key roles in the areas of software development, team leadership and consultancy. Most recently, Guy was Chief System Architect of the Load Testing Products Division at Mercury Interactive. Prior to that, Guy worked for IBM as Chief Architect leading the implementation of large scale enterprise systems in various industries such as finance, military and telecommunication. Prior to IBM, Guy filled leadership positions at various early-stage software companies.
Harald is Vice President for the Java Server Team in the Product and Technology Unit NetWeaver Composition. He is responsible for the Java EE Application Server which is the foundation of the NetWeaver Java stack. He joined SAP in 2003 and prior to that worked for the internet startup Brokat Technologies where he was leading the Twister Application Server development.
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
Hilde Janssen is a consultant at Apogado focusing on integration. She started as a java consultant, developing server side java applications.
Ian Roughley is a speaker, trainer, author, and consultant based in Boston, MA, where he runs From Down & Around, Inc., a consultancy specializing in architecture, development, and process improvement services. For more than 10 years, he has been helping clients ranging in size from Fortune 10 companies to start-ups.
James Gosling received a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Calgary, Canada in 1977. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1983. The title of his thesis was "The Algebraic Manipulation of Constraints". He has built satellite data acquisition systems, a multiprocessor version of Unix, several compilers, mail systems and window managers. He has also built a WYSIWYG text editor, a constraint based drawing editor and a text editor called 'Emacs' for Unix systems. At Sun his early activity was as lead engineer of the NeWS window system. He did the original design of the Java programming language and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. In February 2007, James was named an officer of the Order of Canada.
Jan Van Coppenolle is a certified Flex developer and lead Flash platform innovation architect at Xplore. He's got roots in integrated product development and ended up in interface design, multimedia and online echnologies through a series of events since 1996.
Jannik Persoons is a software engineer working with java technology at Dolmen Computer Applications. He started working there after he received a Bachelor in Computer Science at Karel De Grote in 2005.
Graduated with a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Virginia Tech in 1995, Jason joined IBM in 1997 and has been a member of the WebSphere Application Server product since its inception. He helped to define the concepts of Servlets and JavaServer Pages (JSP) for processing Web presentation logic on the server and has been instrumental in leading those parts of the J2EE specification for IBM. Jason was responsible for the design and implementation of the Web Container in WebSphere Application Server. He has been heavily involved in leading the architecture for key parts of the WebSphere Application Server, including the server runtime, the XML-based systems management architecture. Jason has been the Chief Architect of the Base and Network Deployment versions of WebSphere Application Server.
Jason R McGee is now IBM Distinguished Engineer and Chief Architect of WebSphere XD and Project Zero. He serves as the WebSphere Advanced Technology Manager, responsible for productise new technologies into the WebSphere platform.
Jean-Francois Arcand works for Sun Microsystems since 2000. He currently lead project Grizzly, an NIO based framework used in multiples products like GlassFish, Sailfin, RESTlet, OpenESB and many more. He also works on Web 2.0 technology like Ajax performance and lead the Ajax push (aka Comet) activities at Sun. Jean-Francois lives and works from home in Prevost, a very small city in Quebec where life is perfect.
Jean Pierre Berchez is "Vice President Business Development" at Intland Software GmbH. In this role he is responsible for the Sales- and Partner Management. He owns over 15 years experience in themes like Project Management, Software Engineering, Object Oriented Software Development and Collaborative Software Development. Furthermore Jean Pierre Berchez is assistant lecturer at the university of cooperative education in Stuttgart and Heidenheim as well as at the university in Lichtenstein.
Experimental physicist in my former life, Swing-addict and -critic since its birth, early adaptor in my scientific data-analysis/ visualization projects, self-proclaimed ruler of SwingEmpire.de offering services as pathfinder around desktop stumbling blocks, I'm currently back in the labs, consulting in the role of senior developer-architect in Sun's open source SwingLabs/SwingX project.
James L. (Jim) Weaver is the Chief Technical Officer at LAT, Inc.; a technology consulting and software development company. He is also the President of JMentor®, in which he writes books, speaks for groups and conferences, and provides training and consulting services on the subjects of Java and JavaFX. His latest book is entitled "JavaFX Script: Dynamic Java Scripting for Rich Internet/Client-Side Applications". He also posts daily to a blog whose stated purpose is to help the reader learn JavaFX Script and other JavaFX technologies.
I am an engineer living in the heart of the silicon valley and part of the JavaPosse. I also like to race cars. Go figure.
Johan Lybaert is program manager at Cegeka. He has a track record of more than 25 years of the world of ICT. Johans focus is the successful delivery of large projects. Applying the most appropriate development methodology in a pragmatic way is one of his key success factors. Today Johan is in charge of a large J2EE development project called Ventouris. A group of more than 60 developers is actually realizing a unique, major application to be used by more then 400 concurrent users through an ASP-service (application service provider). Today, five teams are simultaneously working according to the Scrum and eXtreme programming practices.
Jon is Lead Evangelist and Product Line Manager for CodeGear's Java products across the European region, and has over 15 years experience in the software industry. He has worked with JBuilder since it's first release, and regularly presents at conferences, user group meetings, and other events. Jon also works closely with CodeGear's enterprise customer base.
Joris specialized in J2EE technology and became the Java Technical Consultant for the Dutch Central Bank in 2003. In this role, he was responsible for all development technologies and processes used in the Java department. He streamlined the software configuration management process by introducing automated builds and continuous integration, migrated system development from a traditional EJB-based environment to a modern, light-weight stack based on Spring and Hibernate and supported developers in their day-to-day work as the local Java guru.
I work in Eindhoven as Java Architect for the Business Application Solutions (BAS) department of Atos Origin. I'm also heavily involved with the open source initiatives in Atos Origin Netherlands. I'm a contributor to Mule, and also try to help out in various other open source projects.
Joshua Bloch is a Principal Engineer at Google. He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems and a Senior Systems Designer at Transarc. He led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including the JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the Java Collections Framework. He is the author of the Jolt Award-winning book Effective Java. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University and a B.S. in Computer Science from Columbia.
Jérémi is a French computer science engineer graduated from the European Institute of Technologies and has a Master Degree in Computer science from the Dalian University of Light Industry (China). He's working as eXo SaaS product manager after having been the project leader of another Open Source project: the PengYou Project.
Ken Saks is a Senior Staff Engineer in the Java EE Platform group at Sun Microsystems, where he was the lead architect for the EJB 3.0 container implementation in the Java EE SDK and Sun Java System Application Server. Ken is an original member of the Java EE platform engineering team and has been developing application servers at Sun since 1999. He has over 12 years of experience in the areas of distributed computing, OO, and system software. Ken holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has been working on web services and XML, in particular RELAX NG, W3C XML Schema, JAXB, JAX-WS, and JAXP. He also hosts many projects on java.net, including Hudson.
Currently serving as methodology specialist at Reaktor Innovations, Lasse has held a variety of roles from development to project management and training to consulting. He is an active promoter of agile methods in Finland and ramped up the local Agile Seminars a few years back. Lasse is also the author of Test Driven: TDD and Acceptance TDD for Java Developers (Manning Publications, 2007) and actively helps teams across continents improve on their ability to develop products.
Linda DeMichiel is a senior architect in the Java EE Platform group at Sun Microsystems and the chief architect for Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 and the Java Persistence API. As the Specification Lead for JSR-220, she was responsible for launching and leading the initiatives for Enterprise JavaBeans 3.0 and the Java Persistence API under the Java Community Prcoess.
Ludovic Champenois is a Principal Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and has been with Sun and Java for the last 10 years. He is one of the tech lead and architect on Sun's Application Server and is responsible to ensure best in class developer experience for Java EE programmers with Sun Application Server and NetBeans. Ludovic is also heavily involved in leading Sun's open source initiative (Projects GlassFish, jMaki, Phobos)
Lukas Hasik is the NetBeans Mobility QE lead for Sun Microsystems responsible for NetBeans Mobility Pack.
Marc has a database development background of more than 15 years. Early 2007 he joined Adobe and became addicted to Flex and AIR, still convinced that backend integration is as important as sexy user interfaces. Prior to that Marc was technology sales consultant at Oracle Belgium.
Mark has been working as an engineer at Atlassian for the past three years. Formerly of the JIRA team, he's current the lead developer on the Bamboo team (Alpha Bamboon, if you will).
Mark Hansen, Ph.D., is a software developer, consultant, and entrepreneur. His company, Javector Software, provides consulting and software application development focused on Web Services. Mark is a content developer for Project GlassFish and a member of the expert group for JAX-RS: The JavaTM API for RESTful Web Services JSR-311. Mark has also developed the open source SOA-J application framework for WSDL-centric Web Services development.
Dr. Mark Little is Red Hat Director of Standards and Technical Development Manager for the JBoss SOA Platform. Before joining JBoss/Red Hat, Mark was Chief Architect and Director at Arjuna Technologies, a spin-off from Hewlett-Packard specializing in reliable middleware. Prior to Arjuna, he was Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard, where he led the transactions team. Mark has published numerous books and articles and spoken at conferences and workshops for nearly 20 years.
Mark Reinhold is the Chief Engineer for the Java™ Platform, Standard Edition, at Sun Microsystems. 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. He was the lead engineer for the 1.2 and 5.0 releases and the specification lead for Java SE 6. He currently leads the engineering team for the OpenJDK project and also serves as chair of the OpenJDK Governance Board. 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 currently writing Wicket in Action together with co-author Eelco Hillenius. When he doesn't work with or on Wicket, he likes to spend time with his lovely wife and cat.
Martin Odersky heads the programming research group at EPFL. His research interests cover fundamental as well as applied aspects of programming languages. They include semantics, type systems, programming language design, and compiler construction. The main focus if his work lies in the integration of object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as possible. To prove this he has experimented with a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. His current work concentrates on the Scala programming language, which unifies FP and OOP while staying completely interoperable with Java and .NET.
Martin van Amersfoorth is allowed to call himself software architect, although he would prefer the term 'social architect', in the sense of architectus oryzus that is. Martin has worked for many years in the trenches of enterprise software development, and was deployed with his troops on the island of Java and the peninsula called Objective-C, following an initial campaign in the infamous Lisp desert. Currently he enjoys being at LogicaCMG in The Netherlands, where he spends most of his working time with graduate students, pursuing the holy grail of innovation at the 'Working Tomorrow' program.
Mathias Mouly has been a Technical Account Manager at ILOG for 7 years. He is currently in charge of the visualization product line in Europe. Prior to this, Mathias was involved with Thales in application development for EDF, the French electricity provider. Mathias graduated in energy engineering from the Ecole des Mines and in software computing from Thales campus.
Matt is the lead developer of Crucible and FishEye. Formerly a partner at Cenqua, he is now on the Atlassian engineering team.
I am a software developer, designer, instructor and manager, working mainly in object-oriented technologies, especially Java. I have three decades' experience as a programmer, team leader, academic, and commercial trainer.
Mike Aizatsky is an accomplished speaker and advanced developer with nine years of Java Development experience to draw from. In his presentations, he has developed a knack for expressing challenging concepts in simple ways, so that his audiences walk away with new knowledge and a lot of ideas on how to apply it.
Neal Gafter is a software engineer and Java evangelist at Google. He was previously a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he designed and implemented the Java language features in releases 1.4 through 5.0. Neal is coauthor of "Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases" (Addison Wesley, 2005). He was a member of the C++ Standards Committee and led the development of C and C++ compilers at Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, and Texas Instruments. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.
Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux are both software developers at Lunatech Research, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They share many years of experience building Java EE applications for corporate and government IT projects using open-source libraries and agile methods, and recently organised a Benelux JBoss User Group event. Peter is from the South coast of England, while Nicolas comes from the somewhat warmer South coast of France.
Ola has proven to be one of the most valuable community contributors to JRuby, and he's shown that he's dedicated to making Ruby on the JVM a reality. He's the sole creator of the RbYAML and JvYAML projects that have enabled high-performance YAML support in JRuby, he single-handedly implemented Enumerable in Java, he has been the primary developer behind our Zlib support, and he's contributed numerous patches and fixes over the past 8 months.
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.
Ole is the founder of the SoapUI project which is rapidly establishing itself as the preferred tool for WebService testing within the open-source community. He has worked since the mid-ninetees at mogul as a system architect/CTO and been focusing on SOA and open-source in the last 5 years. Currently, he is working double-overtime on improving SoapUI and on starting eviware, a startup that will provide commercial support and add-on functionality for SoapUI and related offerings.
Olivier is a senior technical consultant and pre-sales specialist at InterSystems Benelux. As such, his main responsibility is to help InterSystems' partners and end-users find optimal solutions to their functional and technical needs, and guide them in the use of InterSystems' technologies. A graduate in Computer Science from the University of Namur (Belgium), he has always been a true believer in Java.
Pat Patterson is a software architect at Sun Microsystems, working on the OpenSSO project and Federated Access Management product line. Pat has been working on Internet security and identity management since 1997, joining Sun in 2000 as an engineering manager in the Trustbase secure Web services team. After a four-year stint in product management, he returned to engineering early in 2005, focusing on federation and identity-enabled Web services. Pat speaks regularly at a variety of forums, from one-to-one executive briefings to major industry events such as JavaOne.
Patrick Curran is Chair of the JCP. In this role he oversees the activities of the JCP Program Office including driving the process, managing its membership, guiding specification leads and experts through the process, leading the Executive Committee meetings, and managing the JCP.org web site. Patrick has worked in the software industry for more than 20 years and at Sun for 15 years. He has a long-standing record in conformance testing, and most recently led the Java Conformance Engineering team in Sun's Client Software Group. He was also chair of Sun's Conformance Council, which is responsible for defining Sun's policies and strategies around Java conformance and compatibility.
Paul Hermans is Head of Information Architectures and Partner at Amplexor, a company that specialises in Enterprise Content Management.
I am the co-spec lead and implementation lead for JSR 311: Java API for RESTful Web Services. Previous to this I have participated in the W3C, ISO and ITU-T standards organizations and contributed to the Glassfish Web services stack on performance related technologies and improvements, namely the standardization, implementation, integration and interoperability of Fast Infoset.
> Peter Hilton and Nicolas Leroux are both software developers at Lunatech Research, based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. They share many years of experience building Java EE applications for corporate and government IT projects using open-source libraries and agile methods, and recently organised a Benelux JBoss User Group event. Peter is from the South coast of England, while Nicolas comes from the somewhat warmer South coast of France.
Peter Kriens studied electronics in Alkmaar, Holland. As well as working for his own start-up companies, he worked for 3 years for Ericsson Research in Stockholm, where he got involved with home servers and residential gateways - which lead to the OSGi. He has been the OSGi Technical Officer since April last year.
Richard Bair is an application developer with over 7 years experience in writing SQL database front ends. Four of those years were devoted to writing Java applications based on Swing and JDBC. He is currently tasked with working on the back-end components in JDNC for communicating with various data stores such as RDBMS systems, web services, and EJB servers, as well as working on Swing components and general JDNC project management. He joined Sun Microsystems in November of 2004 as a member of the Swing team, working full time on the JDNC project.
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.
Industry specialists from leading data and platform providers describe the application 'presence' for developers using Java today and tomarrow.
Ross Mason is Co-founder and CTO of MuleSource, Inc., the creators of the open source Mule integration platform. Prior to founding MuleSource he was Chief Executive Officer of SymphonySoft Limited, an EU-based company providing services and support for large-scale integration projects. Mason founded the Mule project in 2003 and strived to make it the leading Java-based ESB and integration platform. Mule is used by top-tier financial institutions such as CitiGroup, JP Morgan Chase and Deutsche Bank as well as many other high profile enterprises including Walmart, American Airlines, Adobe and many government agencies around the world.
In his role of principal technology officer at Capgemini, Sander Hoogendoorn is concerned with innovation of software development. He is also responsible for Capgemini agile software development platform, called Accelerated Delivery Platform (ADP) and is recognized as a global thought leader on agile development at Capgemini.
Sander's expertise ranges from (agile and non-agile) software development methodologies, software architecture, design patterns, modeling, UML, model driven software development, .Net, Java and tools. He coaches organizations and projects and has published numerous articles and columns in international magazines, such as OBJECTSpectrum, Internation Developer, Software Release Magazine, and has written books on UML and agile development. Besides that Sander is a frequent speaker at Dutch and international conferences, which include OOP, JAOO, SET, Javapolis, TDWI and DevDays. Sander also runs seminars and worshops on UML, ..Net, design patterns, agile development both in the Netherlands and in Belgium.
The ADP platform allows Capgemini and its customers to industrialize projects using the accelerators the platform offers, such as Smart lifecycle, the use of smart use cases, pragmatic smart use case based estimation techniques, agile dashboarding and burn charting to monitor project progress, model driven development, code generation, frameworks and unified testing techniques. Elements of the platform are adopted by a fast growing international community, as well within Capgemini as with its customers. ADP accelerators have been used by several types of projects, including .Net, Java, Sharepoint, and more recently in SAP implementations and BI.
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.
Sean Mullan is a staff engineer working on Java Security at Sun Microsystems. He is the co-specification lead of the XML Digital Signature API (JSR 105) which is now part of JDK 6 and is a committer on the Apache XML Security project. He also participates in the W3C XML Security Specifications Maintenance Working Group. Previously, he was specification lead of the Certification Path API (JSR 55) which was successfully integrated into JDK 1.4. In addition, he focuses on access control, performance, and overall PKI and XML security support in the Java SE platform.
Serge Liberloo is a Java software engineer from Belgium that has more than 10 years experience in the field of embedded Java programming.
Shaun Smith is co-lead of the Eclipse Dali Java Persistence API (JPA) Tools Project, actively involved in the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink) and a product manager for Oracle TopLink. He has been building systems using object-relational mapping technologies for almost a decade in both Java and Smalltalk in the banking, telecommunications, and energy industries. Shaun's a frequent conference presenter and has recently spoken at Eclipse Summit Europe, EclipseWorld, The Server Side Symposium, JavaPolis, OOP, SpringOne and JavaOne.
Stan Silvert is a JBoss Core Developer, specializing in JavaServer Faces. He represents JBoss on several expert groups in the Java Community Process including JavaServer Faces 1.2 and 2.0. He is also the project lead for JBoss JSFUnit and committer to both Apache MyFaces and Glassfish JSF.
Stephan is the founder and chairman of the Belgian Java User Group since 1996 and founder of JavaPolis in 2002. He has been using Java since its early releases in 1995 with experience of developing and implementing real world Java solutions in the finance and manufacturing industries. He also founder and managing director of JCS Int. a Sun authorized Java Center with an exclusive focus on J2ME, J2SE and J2EE since 1997. JCS is also the very first Belgian Java company to speak at JavaOne 2003. He was selected by BEA Systems as the first European (independant) BEA Technical Director. He has also been recognized by the Server Side as one of the 54 Who is Who in Enterprise Java 2004. Sun has recognized in 2005 his efforts for the Java Community and has engaged me in the Java Champion project. He has spoken at numerous Java and JUG conferences including Java '98 (UK), JAOO '99 (Denmark), JavaDays 2000 (Norway), TMAB (Belgium), JavaPolis 2002-04-05, JavaOne 2003, SpringOne 2006, JavaZone 2007, SAI, IT Works etc.
I've worked with Java since version 1.0, and contributed to open source software since 2000. My work includes Joda-Time, JSR 310 (Date and Time API) and Apache Jakarta Commons. I was elected a Java Champion in 2007.
Steven Palmaers is a researcher working at XIOS Hogeschool Limburg - www.xios.be - in Diepenbeek, Belgium. Recently, Steven also started working as an independent consultant.
Thomas Schaeck is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM Software Group, responsible for the Lotus Quickr architecture and involved in various other Web 2.0 related development projects. Previously, Thomas was working on overall performance development for WebSphere Portal and driving performance enhancements for IBM Workplace. Prior to that, Thomas was the lead architect for the WebSphere Portal Foundation where he led the overall portal foundation architecture and initiated the Java Portlet API and Web Services for Remote Portlet standards.
Tijs is a software architect at the business application solutions department of Atos Origin. Tijs focusses on implementing Service Oriented Architectures and integration middleware in the financial and insurance market.
Tom Klaasen is a co-founder of 10to1, a company specialized in Web development. Since the start of his career in 1999, he has worked with Java and Java EE on a daily basis, on projects of varying sizes in a wide array of business domains. He loves to work with open source software, and has contributed to projects such as Struts and Apache Cocoon. Tom holds a Master in Informatics from the KU Leuven.
Industry specialists from leading data and platform providers describe the application 'presence' for developers using Java today and tomarrow.
Wayne Beaton is employed by The Eclipse Foundation where he works as an evangelist, spreading the word and helping folks adopt Eclipse technologies. Wayne has extensive experience in object-oriented software development and is a strong proponent of refactoring, unit testing, and agile development methodologies.
Werner Keil is currently senior developer relationship engineer (DRE) and software architect at BEA Systems. He has worked for more than 18 years as project manager, analyst, consultant and software architect on leading-edge technologies for investment banking, insurance, telco/media and public sector organizations, including Cable & Wireless, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Deutsche Post/DHL, Dresdner Bank, Erste Bank, HVB/UniCredit, Hutchison, IKEA, Sony, Vodafone and European governments. He develops enterprise systems using Java and Java EE, Oracle and Microsoft technologies, does Web design and development using Adobe, or scripting languages like PHP.
Xavier Hanin is an independent software architect, developer and teacher based in Bordeaux, a beautiful city of France well known for its famous red wines. Over the years, Xavier has worked on a large spectrum of projects, mostly in Java, both private and open source. He is the creator and one of the active developer of Ivy, currently incubating at the ASF, and Xooctory, yet another open source continuous integration server
Yara Mascarenhas Hornos Senger graduated in Computer Science from the University of São Paulo, Brazil. She is one of the founders of Globalcode (1), the leading Java training company in South America and responsible for 'The Developer's Conference'. Yara has been working with Java for the last 7 years. Nowadays she is Product Manager and Lead instructor. One of her main activities in both scenarios is studying new technologies for applying in software development, and consequently writing training books for Globalcode. She also publishes monthly articles for 'Java Magazine' (2) (including two Java One Coverage articles) and speaks regularly in Java Conferences, proudly including JavaOne.
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