PRAVIN V. TULACHAN is a J2EE platform architect and instructor with JavaCamp.com, a J2EE platform training and consulting company based in Silicon Valley. He has more than 16 years of IT experience and has spent the last six years as a Web/Java platform consultant focusing on server-side application development. He is on the faculty of Java University and also teaches a course on the J2EE platform for Sun Educational Services and the University of California, Berkeley Extension.