Thomas Heute

Thomas Heute is the project leader at JBoss.org for Seam. After three years of researching information repositories at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and then PDA security for the National Security Agency (NSA), he became a contributor to the JBoss Portal project. He officially joined JBoss in 2004 as JBoss Portal developer.

Michael Juntao Yuan

MICHAEL JUNTAO YUAN is a researcher, developer, author, and advocate for Java and open source technologies. He is a research associate at the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas at Austin and the Wireless Java columnist for JavaWorld. Yuan won the 2002 Grand Prize in Nextel, Sun, and Motorola’s national J2ME application contest. Currently, he leads an effort in BuzzPhone.com to develop a series of official blueprint applications for Nokia.