Judith M. Myerson is a systems architect and engineer as well as a freelance writer. Her areas of interest include middleware technologies, enterprise-wide systems, database technologies, application development, network management, distributed systems, wireless technologies, robotics, component-based technologies, security, cryptography, and project management. She is the editor of Enterprise Systems Integration Handbook, Second Edition (Auerbach, 2001); the author of The Complete Book of Middleware (Auerbach, 2002); and an editor of The Internet and Its Protocols: A Comparative Approach (Morgan Kaufmann, 2004). You can contact her at jmyerson@bellatlantic.net.