Ted Neward is a software architect, consultant, author, and presenter who has consulted for such companies as Intuit and Pacific Bell, and UC Davis. He is the author of Server-Based Java Programming (Manning, 2000), and coauthor of C# in a Nutshell (O'Reilly, 2002) and SSCLI Essentials (O'Reilly, 2003). Ted was a member of the JSR 175 Expert Group. He now frequently speaks on the conference circuit and to user groups all over the world. He continues to develop and teach courses on Java and .NET.