David Geary

David M. Geary is best known for his Graphic Java series from Prentice Hall PTR and Sun Microsystems Press, but for the past two years he has been immersed in server-side Java technology. He is a member of the expert group that's defining the standard JSP technology tag library and is also a key contributor to the Apache Struts JSP technology-based application framework.

David Geary

David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java Swing was the best-selling Swing book, and is one of the best-selling Java books of all-time, and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces. David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework and on the JSF 2 Expert Group that helped to vastly improve JSF in version 2.

Cay S. Horstmann

Cay S. Horstmann is author of Modern JavaScript for the Impatient (2020), Core Java® SE 9 for the Impatient, Second Edition (2017), Scala for the Impatient, Second Edition (2016), and Java SE 8 for the Really Impatient (2014), all from Addison-Wesley. He has written more than a dozen other books for professional programmers and computer science students. He is an emeritus professor of computer science at San Jose State University and a Java Champion.

Cay S. Horstmann

Cay Horstmann grew up in Northern Germany and attended the Christian-Albrechts-Universität in Kiel, a harbor town at the Baltic sea. He received a M.S. in computer science from Syracuse University, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. For four years, he was VP and CTO of an Internet startup that went from 3 people in a tiny office to a public company. He now teaches computer science at San Jose State University. Cay also writes books and articles on programming languages and computer science education.