Tutorial Instructors Bios Alex Chaffee is a Java Guru with jGuru Training by the Magelang Institute, the leading all-Java training company. He has promoted, taught and programmed in Java since way back in 1995. As the Director of Software Engineering for EarthWeb, Alex co-created Gamelan, the official directory for the Java community. He has presented at numerous users groups and conferences, written articles for several Java magazines, and contributed to the book The Official Gamelan Java Directory. He has also published research papers on evolutionary computation (aka "genetic algorithms") and on implicit memory in human cognition. Reach him at alex@jguru.com. Robert Eckstein enjoys dabbling with just about anything related to computers. Consequently, he spends far too much time in front of a computer screen, and is the world's largest consumer of caffeine. Robert has written the XML Pocket Reference and Using Samba for O'Reilly. In addition, he co-authored Java Swing and Webmaster in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition. In his spare time, he has been known to write open-source tools and provide online coverage for various conferences. He now lives in Austin, Texas, with his wife Michelle--they both hope to adopt a talking puppy soon." Jim Farley is a computer scientist, IT manager and author. He's worked at the GE Research and Development labs and has headed the IT engineering group at The Harvard Business School. Jim is also the author of Java Distributed Computing and co-author of Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, both published by O'Reilly and Associates, and is a lecturer for the Harvard Extension School. Peter Fischer is Director of Technical Services at Quantum Enterprise Solutions, Inc., a recognized leader in EAI solutions. He specializes in architecting, designing and building and integrating large-scale distributed systems using middleware integration and Java technologies. With over 11 years experience in developing distributed systems, he is a recognized authority on architecting, designing and implementing distributed object systems, as well as internet and intranet systems using DCOM, CORBA and Java. Mr. Fischer is a sought after instructor on EAI, Middleware, Java, ActiveX and Internet/Intranet systems development. Mr. Fischer is a regular contributor to major industry publications and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences. He also serves as the Vice Chair of the Technical Committee for the International Middleware Association, where he is responsible for helping to shape the definition and usage of middleware and EAI in the industry. Elliotte Rusty Harold is an internationally respected writer, programmer, and educator, both on the Internet and off. He lectures about Java and object oriented programming at Polytechnic University in Brooklyn. His Cafe au Lait web site has become one of the most popular independent java sites on the Internet, and his spin-off site Cafe con Leche has become on of the most popular XML sites. He is the author of numerous books, most recently: The XML Bible from IDG and Java I/O from O'Reilly. Jason Hunter works as the CTO of K&A Software, where he specializes in Java training and consulting. He is author of the book Java Servlet Programming (O'Reilly) and publisher of the web site www.servlets.com. He also writes regularly for JavaWorld, belongs to the working group responsible for Servlet API development, and helped develop portions of the servlet/JSP reference implementation at Sun. If by some miracle you don't find him at work, he's probably out hiking in the mountains. Jonathan Knudsen is a writer and editor for O'Reilly & Associates. He has written Java 2D Graphics, The Unofficial Guide to LEGO MINDSTORMS Robots, and Java Cryptography.   Larry Koved is a Research Staff Member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in the Networking and Security department. Mr. Koved and Mr. Nadalin (IBM NCSD, Austin) are the Java security architects for IBM. Larry's primary interests are in security of mobile code, component software and object-oriented languages. He is a member of ACM SIGSAC & SIGCHI, and IEEE Computer Society. David S. Linthicum is the CTO of SAGA Software, Inc. and an internationally known EAI and e-commerce expert. David joined SAGA Software, Inc. as Chief Technology Officer in December 1997 and is responsible for product direction, development and strategy. Prior to joining SAGA Software, Inc., Linthicum was a senior manager at Ernst & Young's Center for Technology Enablement, where he was responsible for the strategic technical direction of several key accounts including Banker's Trust and Mercedes-Benz. Before moving to Ernst & Young, he was technology manager of AT&T Solutions Systems Integration Practice from December 1995 through June 1997, where he built the business to more than 200 people and $14 million in revenues. He also has previous experience with EDS and Mobil Oil, where he played key technical leadership roles. David has authored over 300 articles for PC Magazine, Information Week, BYTE, DBMS Magazine, Database Programming and Design, Object Magazine, Component Strategies, Software Development, Enterprise Developer, and Application Development Trends. He has monthly columns in 5 publications. He has authored or co-authored six books including his latest, David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server and Intranet Development, published in June 1997, and Enterprise Application Integration, out this year. He is a frequent speaker at key technology forums and conferences throughout the United States. Marc Loy teaches Java and Perl at various companies -- including Sun Microsystems. He started with Java in the alpha days and can't find his way back to C. He received his master's degree in computer science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has written on Java Swing for O'Reilly and JavaWorld.   Brett McLaughlin has been working in computers since the Logo days (remember the little triangle?). He currently specializes in building application infrastructure using Java and Java-related technologies. He has spent the last several years implementing these infrastructures at Nextel Communications and Allegiance Telecom, Inc.. Brett is one of the co-founders of the Java Apache project Turbine, which builds a reusable component architecture for web application development using Java servlets. He is also a contributor of the EJBoss project, an OpenSource EJB application server, and Cocoon, an Open Source XML web-publishing engine. He is author of the soon to be released O'Reilly book, XML for Java Developers, as well as an O'Reilly book set for release late in 2000, Enterprise Applications in Java. These books and projects all focus on using XML and the J2EE platform in mission-critical, high-performance, distributed systems. Greg Murray is an engineer in the Java 2 Enterprise Edition application programming model team at Sun MicroSystems. He designed and implemented the Web tier of the Java Pet Store sample application. He is also a contributing author to the book "Developing Enterprise Applications for the J2EE Platform" published by Addison Wesley. You can reach Greg via gregory.murray@sun.com. Anthony Nadalin is the Lead Architect for the IBM Java Security project. As the senior architect, he has responsibility for infrastructure design and development across IBM. He serves as the primary security liaison to JavaSoft for security design and development collaboration. You can contact him at drsecure@us.ibm.com. Marco Pistoia is an Advisory Software Engineer, working at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in the Network Interactivity department. He has written nine books and taught IBM classes worldwide on all areas of Java, WebSphere and e-business security. Marco's latest book, "Java 2 Network Security", is published by Prentice Hall PTR (ISBN 0-13-015592-6). Marco's interests are in mobile code security, security of collaborative systems, and object-oriented technology. You can contact him at pistoia@us.ibm.com. George Reese has taken an unusual path into business software development. After earning a B.A. in Philosophy from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, George went off to Hollywood where he worked on televisions shows such as The People's Court and ESPN's Up Close. The L.A. riots convinced him to return to Maine where he finally became involved with software development and the Internet. George has since specialized in the development of Internet-oriented Java enterprise systems. He is the author of O'Reilly's Database Programming with JDBC and Java and the worlds's first JDBC driver, the mSQL-JDBD drive for mSQL. He currently works as an enterprise systems architect in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Govind Seshadri is the Enterprise Java Guru for jGuru.com and an active Java evangelist. His area of expertise spans server-side Java, distributed object computing and application servers. Govind is also the `Distributed Computing' columnist for Java Report and the author of Enterprise Java Computing (Cambridge University Press). John Zukowski is a Java Guru with jGuru.com as well as the Focus on Java guide at About.com. He is the author of several Java books (including O'Reilly's Java AWT Reference) and numerous Java-related technical articles. He serves on the Senior Advisory Board of JavaWorld magazine and is the vice-chairman of ACM's WebTech user group.