Arjen Poutsma
Founder & Project Lead for Spring Web Services
Arjen Poutsma is a senior enterprise application architect with fifteen years' experience in commercial software environments. During this time he has worked with both J2EE and Microsoft .NET.
Two years ago, Arjen started to specialise in Web Services and Service Oriented Architectures. During this period he has conducted trainings and has researched SOAs in large organisations.
Arjen is the founder and the pro..
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Billy Newport
Distinguished Engineer at IBM
Billy is a Distinguished Engineer at IBM. He's been at IBM since 2001. Billy was the lead on the WorkManager/ Scheduler APIs which were later standardized by IBM and BEA and are now the subject of JSR 236 and JSR 237. Billy lead the design of the WebSphere 6.0 non blocking IO framework (channel framework) and the WebSphere 6.0 high availability/clustering (HAManager). Billy currently works on WebSphere XD and ObjectG..
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Mik Kersten
President of Tasktop, Lead of the Eclipse Mylyn Project
Mik Kersten is the President & CTO of Tasktop Technologies, lead of the Eclipse Mylyn project, and a committer on the AspectJ projects. While a research scientist at Xerox PARC Mik created the first Aspect-Oriented Programming tool support and implemented AspectJ plug-ins for JBuilder, NetBeans, VisualStudio, and Emacs. Mik created Mylyn and the Task-Focused UI technology while completing his PhD in Computer Science ..
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Ben Alex
Creator of Spring Security, Spring Roo & SpringSource Principal S/W Engineer
Dr Ben Alex is a Principal Software Engineer with SpringSource, and has been working professionally in software since 1995. Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. More recently Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects, both of which ..
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Rod Johnson
Creator of Spring & Best Selling Author of J2EE without EJB
Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development. He is a best-selling author, experienced consultant, and open source developer, as well as a popular conference speaker.
Rod's best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE. The sequel, J2EE without EJB (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller), has proven almost equ..
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