Robert J. Brunner

Robert Brunner founded Apple’s legendary Industrial Design Group, which designed the original Macintosh PowerBook, Newton, and 20th Anniversary Mac. As a partner at Pentagram, he worked with Fortune 500 companies including Nike, Microsoft, HP, Dell, and Nokia. In early 2007, he founded Ammunition, a product design, brand, and interactive development consultancy. Brunner’s product designs are included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). He teaches advanced product design at Stanford University. Stewart Emery, a father of the Human Potential Movement, served as the first CEO of est, cofounded Actualizations, led seminars in dozens of countries, and has coached over 12,000 people in the last three decades. He is the bestselling author of Actualizations: You Don’t Have to Rehearse to Be Yourself and The Owner’s Manual For Your Life. As a consultant, he asked the questions that led MasterCard to its legendary “Priceless” campaign.

Frank Cohen

Java P2P UnleashedLead Author Bio

Robert Flenner is an independent Java software developer based in Texas. He contributed to Professional Jini (Wrox) and Professional Java eCommerce (Wrox). Robert is a regular contributor to the O'Reilly ONJava Web site, where he is currently publishing a series of articles related to Jini and JavaSpaces. He has been involved in managing, architecting, and developing information systems for 17 years. His most recent book is Jini and JavaSpaces Application Development (Sams), published in December 2001.

Michael Abbott has more than 10 years of distributed computing experience, has been published in several peer-reviewed journals, and speaks regularly on XML and distributed transaction management. Mike founded METAmorphosis, a company focusing on managing distribution transactions across heterogeneous databases, and is currently working with code. Mike is very involved in the computing community—he participates on a JSR Expert Group at Sun, participates on a technical committee at OASIS, is currently the president of the BEA User Group in Silicon Valley, and has chaired the XML Sig for the Software Development Forum for the past two years.

Mike was most recently the CTO and Executive-Vice President of Electron Economy, a supply chain software company, prior to its acquisition by Viewlocity. During his tenure there, Electron Economy was named to Upside's Top 100 companies of 2000 and filed four technical patents. Mike also serves on the board of directors for Innogenex, and on the strategic advisory board to SchemaLogic. He holds a B.S. degree in biochemistry with a focus in computer science from California Polytechnic State University, and has completed Ph.D. work at the University of Washington.

Toufic Boubez is the Chief Technology Officer of Layer 7 Technologies, specializing in Web services security. While at IBM, he was a senior technologist in the Emerging Technologies group and the chief architect of IBM's Web services initiative, as well as the architect of the first iterations of the IBM Web Services Toolkit. He was also IBM's technical representative to UDDI, and a coauthor of the UDDI V1 API specification. Toufic represented IBM on other standards bodies, such as the UN/CEFACT/OASIS ebXML initiative, and helped drive IBM's early XML and Web services strategy. He has acted as technical chair for the XML Web Services One Conference, and technical chair for various tracks.

Toufic has more than 15 years of experience in IT and has presented and published papers in the areas of Web services, XML, software agents, machine learning, object technology, B2B, business modeling, simulation, neural networks, wavelet analysis, and distributed computing. He is the coauthor of Building Web Services with Java (Sams).

Frank Cohen is a software entrepreneur who has contributed to the worldwide success of personal computers since 1975. He has written operating systems for microcomputers, helped establish video games as an industry, helped establish the Norton Utilities franchise, lead Apple's efforts into middleware and Internet technologies, and is currently serving as principal architect for the Sun Community Server, Inclusion.net, and TuneUp.com. Frank is principal maintainer for the open-source TestMaker project and is CEO for PushToTest, a scalability and performance testing solutions company. Previously, Frank authored Testing Web Services (Osborne McGraw-Hill, 2002) and contributed to Java Web Services Unleashed (Sams, 2002). You can reach Frank at fcohen@pushtotest.com.

Navaneeth Krishnan works for Sun Microsystems's Sun ONE Identity Server group in Bangalore, India. He has extensive experience in designing and developing J2EE-based application frameworks and solutions. His current focus is on user identity management, Web services and peer-to-peer technologies. He has been involved in JXTA since mid-2001, and strongly believes that it has the potential to make a significant impact in the area of peer-to-peer computing.

He spends his spare time writing articles, contributing to books, and exploring the endless possibilities created by emerging technologies. Previously, he contributed to JXTA: Java P2P Programming (Sams).

Alan Moffet has over 20 years of development (C++, Java, Smalltalk, XML) and management experience with companies such as Northern Telecom (Texas). He is currently an independent consultant whose interests are in distributed systems, systems architecture, components and objects, and software engineering. He specializes in the application of emerging technologies and improving organizational development capacity.

Rajam Ramamurti is a designer and developer who specializes in creating documentation for a variety of technologies, including J2EE, EJB, XML, and C++. Clients have included Gene Logic, Kanisa, Netscape, Oracle, and Progress Software, for whom she conducted training sessions on EJB architecture. She holds a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Bilal Siddiqui is an electronics engineer, an XML consultant, and the co-founder of WaxSys, a company focused on simplifying e-business. After graduating with a degree in electronics engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, in 1995, he began designing software solutions for industrial control systems. Later he turned to XML, and used his experience programming in C++ to build Web- and WAP-based XML processing tools, server-side parsing solutions, and service applications. He is a technology evangelist and a frequently published technical author.

Frank Sommers is CEO and founder of Autospaces, a company focused on bringing Jini technology and Web services to the automotive software market. He has been developing Java-based software since attending Sun Microsystems' first Java conference in November, 1995. Frank's interests include parallel and distributed computing, the discovery and representation of knowledge in databases, and the philosophical foundations of computing.

Francisco Curbera

Darren Govoni

Daniel Brookshier is a world-class Java consultant, author, and speaker with 20 years of experience. Mr. Brookshier's knowledge of software development covers many industries, including transportation, telecom, wireless, healthcare, B2B, petroleum engineering, law, insurance, software tools, and aerospace. He is an international consultant with contract assignments in the United States, Norway, the United Kingdom, and China. Mr. Brookshier is the founder of two Java user groups in Dallas, Texas, the writer of several Java programming books, and he has published numerous articles about Java in industry magazines. Daniel is a recognized expert on Java software development, Java standards, Java Management, enterprise software, and JavaBeans component development. Daniel can be reached at turbogeek@cluck.com

Darren Govoni is a Distinguished Engineer at Cacheon, Inc. in San Francisco where he is responsible for product architecture and technology roadmapping. Darren is an active writer and speaker on Java technologies, P2P systems, Web Services, and adaptive computing. In 1999, Darren founded Metadapt Design Systems with an emphasis on design metaphors for complex adaptive systems. His research forms the basis for Cacheon technology and products.

Navaneeth Krishnan is currently Senior Product Engineer at Aztec Software and Technology Solutions where he has designed and developed several e-commerce solutions and reusable frameworks primarily based on the J2EE architecture. His current focus is on Web Services and peer-to-peer technologies. He has beeninvolved in JXTA since mid 2001 and strongly believes that it has the potential to make a significant impact in the area of peer-to-peer computing. He spends his spare time writing articles, contributing to books, and exploring the endless possibilities created by emerging technologies.

Juan Carlos Soto is the Group Marketing Manager for Project JXTA at Sun Microsystems and the jxta.org Open Source Community Manager. On previous projects at Sun, Mr. Soto managed engineering groups implementing Java for small devices and managed business development for Java Software.

Prior to Sun, Mr. Soto was Director of Product Development at Diba, Inc., an early pioneer developing consumer information appliance. Diba was acquired by Sun in 1997. Prior to his work at Diba, Mr. Soto worked at Hewlett-Packard, where he held various positions in Engineering and Marketing management.

Mr. Soto has an MS in Engineering Management from Stanford, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Colorado, and a BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida.

Steven Haines

Steve Haines has worked in the enterprise software industry for the past eight years and has been focusing on Java since 1997. He has been filling key architectural roles in the areas of B2B e-commerce, high-speed Internet marketing, application monitoring and diagnosis, and robust client and server-side image layout and management over the past few years. He is currently the J2EE Domain Architect for Quest Software and is responsible for defining the expert rules for tuning and monitoring Enterprise Java applications and application servers.

He is the author of Que Publishing's Java 2 from Scratch and has numerous articles on InformIT.com in the areas of Java Swing and Enterprise Java. He shares author credits on Java Web Services Unleashed, C++ Unleashed, Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days, and Sams Teach Yourself Java in 21 Days. He has also worked as a technical editor for Pearson Education in areas of Java, Enterprise Java, Network Communications, C++, and video-game programming. Steve has taught all aspects of Java programming from basic certification training through Database, Web Development, and Enterprise JavaBeans at Learning Tree University (LTU). Steve recently enrolled in a Bachelor's of Biblical Studies at Calvary Chapel Bible College.

Steve Potts is an independent consultant, author, and Java instructor in Atlanta, Georgia. Steve received his Computer Science degree in 1982 from Georgia Tech. He has worked in a number of disciplines during his 20-year career, with manufacturing being his deepest experience. Steve has consulted for such companies as Home Depot, Disney, and IBM. His previous books include Java Unleashed and Java 1.2 How-To. He can be reached via email at stevepotts@mindspring.com.

Matthias Kloppmann

Benoit Marchal

Benoit Marchal runs the consulting company, Pineapplesoft, which specializes in Internet applications, particularly e-commerce, XML & Java. He has worked with major players in Internet development such as Netscape and EarthWeb, and is a regular contributor to developer.com. In 1994 he developed a prototype client/server web interface for Assurnet, a large insurance company in Belgium. Benoit frequently leads proprietary software component training sessions for many corporations.

K. Scott Morrison

Arthur Ryman

Naci Dai, chief scientist and founder of eteration, a.s., is a member of the WTP project management committee, leads its JST subproject, and leads the Open Source Lomboz project, which was a part of the initial code contributed to WTP to seed the project.

Lawrence Mandel, a software architect and developer at at the IBM Toronto Laboratory, is a WTP committer and served as the project’s ecosystem and documentation lead up until the 1.5.2 release.

Arthur Ryman, software architect and development manager at the IBM Toronto Laboratory, has a decade’s experience building Java Web development tools. He led the creation of the WTP project, and led the WST subproject up until the release of WTP 1.5.

Joseph Weber

Chuck Cavaness has spent more than 6 years developing large scale object-oriented systems, using Java from its earliest availability. His previous projects included enterprise-scale applications for the banking and travel industries. Geoff Friesen has written numerous articles for JavaWorld and Windows TechEdge and has created Java applications ranging from smart card integration to disassembly. He has taught college-level Java courses and previously wrote Java 2 by Example. Brian Keeton is a Software Engineer with NetVendor, Inc, where he has developed J2EE-based architectures for Internet-based B2B companies. He is a Sun Certified Developer for the Java Platform, and has taught courses in Java and CORBA technologies.

Mark Wutka

Joseph Weber has been working with Java full-time since its early alpha stages and has helped advise a number of Fortune 500 companies on the goals of Java. Joe has served on advisory committees for and taught classes at universities in the Midwest, and continues to be a strong advocate for Java in the educational environment. Most recently, Joe contributed to Sams Java Web Services Unleashed (067232363X), due in April 2002.

Mark Wutka is a consultant who specializes in helping companies get the most out of Java. He has built numerous Java, JSP and servlet applications for clients including Delta Airlines, and has taught classes, written articles and books, and given lectures. Recently he has written or contributed to Special Edition Using J2EE (0789725037) and Java Web Services Unleashed (067232363X).