James McGovern is currently employed as an enterprise architect for Hartford Financial Services. He is the coauthor of The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture (Prentice Hall, 2003), Java Web Services Architecture (Morgan Kaufmann, 2003), and Xquery?Kick Start (Sams Publishing, 2003). James has 16 years of experience in information technology. He is a member of the Java Community Process, the IEEE, and the Worldwide Institute of Software Architects. He holds industry certifications from Microsoft, Cisco, and Sun.
Rahim Adatia has been programming since he got his first computer?a TRS-80?way back in the beginning of the '80s. Fortunately, he didn't stagnate there and progressed on to developing large-scale enterprise architectures using C/C++, UML, CORBA, J2EE/EJB/Java, and now C# and .NET. He has applied his more than 15 years of experience to leading implementations at Charles Schwab, Williams Communications, Valtech, Nortel Networks, Corel Corporation, Lokah Limited, and T-Mobile International, to name a few. Most recently, he has focused on the wireless middleware market, where he has led product development using Web services, J2EE, and .NET. He is also a delegate for T-Mobile International at the Open Mobile Alliance standards body. Rahim has contributed to numerous books and articles throughout his career, including the books Professional EJB and J#, and is actively reviewing other titles.
Yakov Fain has more than 20 years of experience in information technology and is an experienced architect, developer, instructor, and mentor. He is the author of The Java Tutorial for the Real World. Yakov is the principal of Smart Data Processing, Inc. (www.smartdataprocessing.com), whose clients include major Wall Street companies. He is a Sun Certified Java 2 Programmer and a Sybase Certified Powerbuilder Developer.
Jason Gordon is a software engineer for Verizon and serves as lead for the Global Email system team. While at Verizon he has played a variety of roles, including systems architect for the eBusiness Technology Integration and eInfrastructure group and key developer of the EDGE project, which helped provide a Web-based infrastructure to facilitate the merger of Bell Atlantic and GTE into Verizon. Jason also served as a member of Verizon's XML-Task Force and collaborated on several wireless and Web-services initiatives within the company. In addition to being an active technical author, Jason also currently serves as the national technology coordinator for the National Society of Black Engineers. He can be found at www.jtgordon.com.
Ethan Henry has most recently worked as the manager of training services at Sitraka. In previous positions he was a developer, product manager, and Java evangelist. He has written numerous articles for Java Report, Dr. Dobbs Journal, Java Developers Journal, and Web Techniques. He has been a technical reviewer of multiple books, including Enterprise Java Beans by Valesky, Java How to Program by Dietel and Dietel, Professional JSP by Wrox, and Java Language API Superbible from the Waite Group all the way back in 1996.
Walter Hurst is the chief technology officer and founder of Wakesoft. He is widely recognized as a leader in the design and implementation of large-scale distributed enterprise applications. At Wakesoft, Walter was the product architect and author before becoming more involved in company strategy and industry leadership. He is a frequent speaker at conferences and often writes for technical publications. During his career he has been involved in the design, architecture, and implementation of distributed business systems for many Fortune 1000 companies as an independent consultant and also, while at Xpedior and Andersen Consulting, Walter received a B.S. in computer engineering from the University of Michigan. When he needs a break from technology, Walter volunteers as a scuba diver for the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco, where he cleans the shark tank.
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