About the Authors

Authors listed in alphabetical order by first name:

Beth Stearns is the principal partner of ComputerEase Publishing, a computer consulting firm she founded in 1982. Her client list includes Sun Microsystems, Inc., Silicon Graphics, Inc., Oracle Corporation, and Xerox Corporation. Among her publications are the "Java Native Interface" chapter in The Java Tutorial Continued book in the Addison-Wesley Java Series, "The EJB Programming Guide" for Inprise Corporation, and "Understanding EDT," a guide to Digital Equipment Corporation's text editor. She co-authored with Vlada Matena the book, Applying Enterprise JavaBeans: Component-Based Development for the J2EE Platform, which is part of the Addison-Wesley Java Series. She is also a co-author with Rahul Sharma and Tony Ng of another book in the Addison-Wesley Java Series, J2EE Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration.

Greg Murray is a member of the Java BluePrints team at Sun Microsystems. He is a contributing author to the first edition of this book. Greg contributed to the design of the Java Pet Store sample application with an emphasis on the Web tier. Prior to working on the Java BluePrints team, Greg was a member of the Global Products Engineering group of Sun Microsystems, where he developed internationalization tools.

Inderjeet Singh is the lead architect on the Java BluePrints team at Sun Microsystems, where he investigates the best uses of J2EE technologies for enterprise application design. Inderjeet has been involved with the Java BluePrints program since its inception. He is a regular speaker on enterprise application design. In the past, Inderjeet has also designed fault-tolerance software for large-scale distributed telecommunications switching systems. Inderjeet holds an M.S. in computer science from Washington University in Saint Louis, and a B.Tech. in computer science and engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

Jim Inscore manages technical publications for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, in the Java Software Group of Sun Microsystems. His roles include overseeing developer documentation, such as the J2EE Tutorial and J2EE BluePrints, providing developer content for the java.sun.com Web site. Jim serves as technical editor on the Java Series, Enterprise Edition, from Addison-Wesley and is a co-author, with Rick Cattel, of the Java Series book, J2EE Technology in Practice. Jim has been involved with object-oriented and enterprise-related technologies for more than 15 years, working with developer documentation and marketing programs for organizations that include Oracle, Ingres, NeXT, Kaleida, and Macromedia. Prior to that, he spent 10 years writing marketing communications materials for the technical marketplace.

Linda Demichiel is the specification lead of the Expert Group for the Enterprise JavaBeansTM specification, under the Java Community Process program, and a Senior Staff Engineer in the J2EE platform group at Sun Microsystems. She has over 15 years of industry experience in the areas of databases, distributed computing, and OO. She has a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.

Mark Johnson is a software developer, trainer, writer, and speaker living in Fort Collins, Colorado. He is President of Elucify Technical Communications, a Colorado corporation dedicated to making accessible difficult or novel topics in science and technology through clear explanation and example. He has been a columnist at JavaWorld since 1997 and is a member of the National Association of Science Writers. He is currently a consultant with the Java BluePrints group at Sun. Mark completed a B. S. in computer and electrical engineering at Purdue University in 1986, followed by two years of graduate work at Purdue, concentrating in signal processing and computer systems.

Nicholas Kassem is a Senior Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems and has influenced and had responsibility for a number of technologies and initiatives within Java Software, including the Java Web Server, Java Embedded Server, the Servlet API, JavaServer Pages, Java Message Queuing, and the J2EE programming model. He is currently leading the Java API for XML Messaging (JAXM) initiative. Nicholas has more than twenty years of industry experience and has held senior engineering and management positions at Philips (Data Systems) and the Santa Cruz Operation. He has had direct responsibility for a wide variety of engineering projects, including the development of Data Communications Gateway Hardware (DISOSS), Novell and Lan Manager protocol stacks, and an implementation of OSF DCE on SCO UNIX. He is an engineering graduate of Birmingham University in the United Kingdom.

Rahul Sharma is the lead architect and specification lead of J2EE Connector Architecture 1.0 and JAX-RPC specifications. He works as an architect in the J2EE platform group of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Rahul has also worked on exploring how the Java platform can be used for building carrier-grade applications. Rahul has an MBA from Haas School of Business, University of California at Berkeley, and a B.E. in computer engineering from Delhi University.

Ray Ortigas is an engineer with the Java BluePrints group at Sun Microsystems, where he works on wireless and enterprise applications using Java technology. A former intern with the Java Tutorial, where he authored the "First Cup of Java" trail, Ray earned his B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Toronto in Canada.

Ron Monzillo is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, where he is the J2EE security specification lead. Ron was responsible for the design and standardization of the EJB secure interoperability protocol, CSIv2. Prior to joining Sun, Ron worked for the Open Group where he contributed to the evolution of the Distributed Computing Environment. Ron has also worked for BBN, where he developed Network Management systems, and as a Principal Investigator for the MITRE Corporation where he researched fault-tolerant distributed database systems and multi-processor architectures. Ron received an M.S. in computer science from the University of Connecticut and a B.S. in biology from Bates College.

Sean Brydon is a member of the Java BluePrints team at Sun Microsystems. Sean contributed to the design of the Java Pet Store sample application with an emphasis on the application and the tiers for EIS and the EJB component architecture. In the past, Sean has worked on the JavaLoad^TM team and has spent a summer as an intern at SunLabs. Sean holds an M.S. in computer science from the University of California at Santa Barbara and also a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

Tony Ng is the technical lead of the J2EE SDK and Reference Implementation at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously, he was the implementation lead of the J2EE Connector Architecture. He is a contributing author to the first edition of Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, and J2EE Connector Architecture and Enterprise Application Integration in the Addison-Wesley Java Series. Tony has an M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a B.S. in computer science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Vijay Ramachandran is a member of the technical staff at Sun Microsystems, where he works as the Team Lead of the Java BluePrints team. His major contributions include guidelines on best practices when developing business solutions using enterprise beans. Before joining the BluePrints team, Vijay was a member of the Enterprise Server Products Group of Sun Microsystems working on Sun's enterprise server products line. Vijay holds an M.S. in computer science from Santa Clara University, California, and a B.E. in electrical engineering from Madras University, India.