Robert J. Brunner

Robert Brunner is a technical systems analyst with a 12-year successful track record in consulting, training, and developing cross-platform solutions. His areas of specialization include Internet technologies, object- and relational-database management systems, and object-oriented design and analysis on UNIX and WinNT/2000. He is now serving as a Senior Post-Doctoral Scholar at the California Institute of Technology. Robert is also a frequently contributing columnist for the Java developer journal, Java Basics.

Frank Cohen

FRANK COHEN is the "go to" guy when enterprises need to understand and solve problems in complex interoperating information systems, especially Web Services. Frank is Founder of PushToTest, a test automation solutions business, and maintainer of the popular TestMaker open-source project. For the past 25 years he has led some of the software industry's most successful products, including Norton Utilities for the Macintosh, Stacker, and SoftWindows.

Francisco Curbera

Darren Govoni

Darren Govoni is 14-year veteran in the fields of distributed computing, software engineering and expert systems. Over the past 5 years, his focus has been on component-based architectures, software adaptability and peer computing.

In 1999, Darren founded Metadapt Design Systems with proposal awards from DARPA to investigate complex adaptive software construction and visualization. In 2000, he joined Cacheon, Inc. and transferred prototype technology into Cacheon for productization where he leads product strategy and development efforts.

Darren is a published author, writing books on Java frameworks, Web Services, peer computing and component technologies. He frequently speaks at major conferences on these matters and reviews and submits manuscripts for various media. He has also co-authored Java Web Services Unleashed and JXTA: Java P2P Programming.

Steven Haines

Host of the InformIT Java Reference Guide

Steven Haines is currently the J2EE Domain Expert/Architect at Quest Software, defining the expert rules used to monitor the performance of J2EE applications and application servers. He is the author of Java 2 Primer Plus (Sams) and Java 2 From Scratch (Que), and shares author credits on Java Web Services Unleashed. Steven teaches Java at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), and previously taught all facets of Java programming (from certification to Servlets/JSP to EJB and design patterns) at Learning Tree University (LTU).

Matthias Kloppmann

Benoit Marchal

Benoit Marchal runs the consulting company, Pineapplesoft, which specializes in Internet applications, particularly e-commerce, XML and Java. He has worked with major players in Internet development such as Netscape and EarthWeb, and is a regular contributor to developer.com and other Internet publications. In 1997 he co-founded the XML/EDI Group, a think-tank which promotes the use of XML in e-commerce applications. Benoit frequently leads corporate training on XML and other Internet technologies. Benoit previously wrote the first edition of XML by Example (ISBN: 0-7897-2242-9) and Applied XML Solutions (ISBN: 0-672-32054-1).

K. Scott Morrison

Arthur Ryman

Naci Dai is the chief scientist and founder of eteration, a.s. An active open source advocate, he created the ObjectWeb Lomboz project and is a member of the Eclipse Web Tools Platform project. Naci is a member of the faculty at Sabanci University, where he teaches object technologies and distributed computing. He received a Ph.D. from Carleton University.

Lawrence Mandel is a software developer on the IBM Rational XML Web Services Team. He is responsible for the XML group of validators, which include validators for DTD, WSDL, XML, and XSD. Lawrence has served as the ecosystem and documentation leads since the inception of the WTP project, and he is currently working on a new enterprise portfolio management product. He is also leading the Apache Woden project, which is creating a reference implementation of WSDL 2.0. He received an Hon. B.Sc. in computer science and human biology from the University of Toronto.

Arthur Ryman is a software architect and development manager at the IBM Toronto Laboratory. For the last decade, he has worked on Java Web application development tools, including VisualAge for Java, WebSphere Studio Application Developer, Rational Application Developer, and Eclipse Web Tools (WTP). He led the creation of the WTP project and served as the lead of its Web Standard Tools subproject through the Eclipse Callisto release. Arthur is a member of the W3C Web Service Description Working Group and an editor of the Web Services Description Language 2.0 (WSDL 2.0) specification. He is an adjunct professor of computer science at York University, Toronto, and a Sun Certified Java Programmer. He received a Ph.D. from Oxford.

Joseph Weber

Joe Weber is a professional Java programmer and trainer. He is President of MagnaStar, the first Java consultant firm, and is the co-founder and managing editor of Javology, a Web magazine for Java programmers. Joe is very active in the professional Java industry--he is the moderators for the national Java-SIG, he is founding member of TeamJava, and is a judge for JARS (the international Java Application Review System).

Mark Wutka

Mark Wutka is the president of Wutka Consulting and specializes in helping companies get the most out of Java. He has built numerous Java, JSP, and servlet applications, including several online ordering applications. In a past life, he was the chief architect on a large, object-oriented distributed system providing automation for the flight operations division of a major airline; for nine years he designed and implemented numerous systems in Java, C, C++, and Smalltalk for that same airline. Mark previously contributed chapters to Special Edition Using Java 2 Platform and is the author of Special Edition Using Java Server Pages and Servlets and Hacking Java. His next book, Special Edition Using Java 2 Enterprise Edition, will be available in April.