Core J2EE Patterns - About the Authors

Core J2EE Patterns: Best Practices and Design Strategies
Deepak Alur, John Crupi and Dan Malks
Publisher: Prentice Hall / Sun Microsystems Press
ISBN:0130648841; 1st edition (June 26, 2001)

Deepak Alur is a Senior Java architect at the Sun Java Center program of Sun Professional Services at Sun Microsystems, Inc. He has over 12 years of industry experience and specializes in Java technology, the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Object-Oriented software design and development, and software patterns. He currently consults with Sun clients to help design, develop, and deploy Java technology-based enterprise and Web services solutions and speaks regularly at industry conferences.

John Crupi is a Distinguished Engineer and the Chief Java Architect at the Sun Java Center. He has more than 15 years of experience in distributed-Object computing and remains focused on creating reusable, scalable architectures for the J2EE. He is also a writer for the Java Report and the Java Developers Journal.

Dan Malks is a Master Java Architect at the Sun Java Center. He received a M. S. in computer science from Johns Hopkins University after earning a B. S. in computer science from the College of William and Mary. While focusing on object-oriented technologies, he has developed in a variety of environments, including Smalltalk and the Java programming language. He has published articles about Java technology in leading industry periodicals, in addition to being a contributing author to several books. Currently Mr. Malks has been focusing on distributed, service-based designs, patterns and implementations.

All the authors are architects at the Sun Java Center. Click here to learn more about the Sun Java Center.