ApacheCon Europe 2000 Speakers

Douglas Adams

Sessions: Living In a Virtual World

Douglas Adams (<URL:http://www.douglasadams.com>) was born in Cambridge in March 1952, educated at Brentwood School, Essex and St John's College, Cambridge where, in 1974 he gained a BA (and later an MA) in English literature.

He is the creator of all the various manifestations of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' which started life as a BBC Radio 4 series in March 1978. Since then it has been transformed into a series of best-selling novels, a TV series, a record album, a computer game and several stage adaptations. It is currently under development as a major motion picture in Hollywood.

'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's phenomenal success sent the book straight to Number One in the UK Bestseller List and in 1984 Douglas Adams became the youngest author to be awarded a Golden Pan. He won a further two (a rare feat), and was nominated - though not selected - for the first Best of Young British Novelists awards.

He followed this success with 'The Restaurant at the End of the Universe' (1980); 'Life, The Universe and Everything' (1982); 'So Long and Thanks for all the Fish' (1984); and 'Mostly Harmless' (1992). The first two books in the Hitchhiker series were adapted into a 6 part television series, which was an immediate success when first aired in 1982. Other publications include 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency' (1987) and 'Long Dark Tea-time of the Soul' (1988). In 1984 Douglas teamed up with John Lloyd and wrote 'The Meaning of Liff' and after a huge success 'The Deeper Meaning of Liff' followed this in 1990). One of Douglas's personal favourites was written in 1990 when he teamed up with zoologist Mark Carwardine and wrote 'Last Chance to See' - an account of a world-wide search for rare and endangered species of animals.

He has sold over 15 million books in the UK, the US and Australia. He is also a best seller in German, Swedish and many other languages.

Douglas is a founding director of h2g2 Ltd, formerly The Digital Village, a digital media and Internet company with which he created the 1998 CD-ROM Starship Titanic, a Codie Award-winning (1999) and BAFTA-nominated (1998) adventure game.

h2g2 is currently building an online Guide (www.h2g2.com) - the Earth Edition of 'The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,' offering unconventional wisdom to a growing global community.

His assistant, Sophie Astin, can be contacted at: sophie@h2g2.com Tel: + 44 20 7543 1723 / Fax: + 44 20 7543 1701

Lennie Au

Sessions: A scalable teaching and learning delivery environment built on Apache

Lennie is one of the core application developers in the Campus Wide Information Systems team(CWIS) at The University of Melbourne. For the past four years she has been involved in web server administration as well as application developments such as Webraft, the SGML University Handbook system and other web applications for the infrastructure of the university. She enjoys skiing, bushwalking, eating, gardening and restore old furniture to its previous glory. :*}

Brian Behlendorf

Sessions: Convincing Management to Let You Work on Open Development
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Brian is a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. Brian also founded and was CTO of CollabNet Inc. from 1999 until 2007, and still serves as a board member and advisor. Brian is also on the board of the Mozilla Foundation.

Stas Bekman

Sessions: Getting Started with mod_perl, Improving script and handler performance under mod_perl
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Stas Bekman is an ASF member, an author of the mod_perl guide, a monthly columnist at perl.com and ApacheWeek. He has co-authored the Practical mod_perl book for O'Reilly and Associates, Inc. He can be reached at stas@stason.org.

Ryan Bloom

Sessions: Apache 2.0, Writing Apache Modules for 2.0
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Ryan Bloom is a senior software engineer for Covalent Technologies and a member of the Apache Software Foundation. Ryan has been working on Apache 2.0 and APR since December 1998, and writes monthly columns for ApacheToday and CNet.

Kirill Bolshakov

Sessions: Securing Java Application Servers

Kirill Bolshakov received his MS in computer science in 1999 from Saint Petersburg State Technical University in Russia. Currently, he is a PhD student in computer science at the same University. His research interests are in the field of distributed systems management, security policies and adaptive control systems.

Rich Bowen

Sessions: Apache on Windows, Introduction to the Apache Server
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Rich Bowen is the Web Database Programmer for Asbury College in Wilmore, Kentucky. Rich is the author of Apache Cookbook and The Definitive Guide to Apache mod_rewrite. He is a member of the Apache documentation project and of the Apache Software Foundation.

Robert Burgess

Sessions: XML and Database Integration

Robert Burgess has been an engineer in the Silicon Valley for 14 years. He worked in systems integration at Lockheed Corporation for eight years. Since becoming an independent contractor in 1995, he has worked in Internet-related technologies and helped several startups through their critical first stages. Robert joined Informix in 1998 and has been instrumental in developing the company's XML strategy. He also currently manages a Technical Marketing group within Informix.

Eric Cholet

Sessions: Configuring Apache and mod_perl applications
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Eric Cholet is CTO of Logilune and a member of the ASF.

Ken Coar

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Ken Coar is a director and vice president of the Apache Software Foundation, a director and vice president of the Open Software Initiative, and a Senior Software Engineer with IBM. He has over two decades of experience with software engineering and system administration. Ken has worked with the Web since 1992, and in addition to working on Apache and PHP he was one of the authors of RFC 3874 (the CGI specification). He is the author of 'Apache Server for Dummies', a lead author of 'Apache Server Unleashed', and a co-author of 'Apache Cookbook'.

James Duncan Davidson

Sessions: Perspectives on the Jakarta Project
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James Duncan Davidson is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun MIcrosystems and is the original author of Apache Tomcat and Apache Ant. During his career at Sun, he authored the Servlet 2.1 and 2.2 API specifications, the Java API for XML Parsing 1.0 specification and played an instrumental role in the donation of code from Sun to the Apache Software Foundation which formed the Jakarta Project. Currently he serves as a Strategic Technologist in the Sun Open Source office and does his best to help Sun "Do the Right Thing".

Lars Eilebrecht

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Lars is co-founder and member of The Apache Software Foundation, and started contributing to the Apache web server project in 1997. In addition, he is the Vice President of the Conference Planning Committee, a member of the Apache security team, and the Apache public relations committee. He has a degree in computer engineering from the University of Siegen, Germany, where he wrote his first book about the Apache web server. He held various senior engineering, consulting and management positions at various ISPs, mobile network providers and software development companies. Lars is also a member of the International Financial Cryptography Association. Currently he is working as a senior security officer for a software development company in Munich specializing in cryptographic research and development, and the operation of highly secure data centers.

Ralf S. Engelschall

Sessions: Security Solutions with SSL
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RSE studied Computer Science and Mathematics and is an engrained Unix and free software enthusiast for over 10 years now. He spends most of his free time for contributing to free software projects (FreeBSD, GNU, Apache, OpenSSL) and is also the author of numerous popular packages (mod_ssl, MM, WML, ePerl, GNU Pth, GNU shtool, etc). His major Apache contributions are mod_rewrite, reverse proxy, mod_so/DSO, APACI, apxs, apache-contrib and mod_ssl.

Roy Fielding

Sessions: HTTP and Apache

Roy T. Fielding is chief scientist at Day Software, a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and V.P., Apache HTTP Server. He is a founder of several open-source software projects, architect of the current Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1) and REST architectural style, and co-author of the Internet standards for HTTP and Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI). He received his Ph.D. in Information and Computer Science at the University of California, Irvine.

Paul Fremantle

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

Paul Fremantle is VP of Technical Sales at WSO2, where he works on Open Source projects in Apache, including the Apache Synapse and Incubator projects. He has contributed to Apache since the first Apache SOAP project. While at IBM, he was instrumental in starting up the Apache WSIF, and Apache Woden projects, as well as being heavily involved in the AxisC/C++ initiative, where he led IBM's involvement. Paul was a Senior Technical Staff Member in IBM, where he was the lead architect and co-creator of IBM's Web Services Gateway. Paul is the co-chair of the OASIS WS-RX technical committee and lead the JSR110 committee (JWSDL). Before joining IBM, Paul worked as a consultant in the pharmaceutical industry. Publications include co-authoring "Building Web Services in Java, 2nd Edition", articles on Web Services and SOA, and a redbook - "The XML Files: Using XML and XSL in WebSphere". Paul has presented at ApacheCon, Colorado Software Summit, XML Europe, Software Architecture and other industry conferences. Paul has an M.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy and an M.Sc in Computation from Oxford University.

Santiago Gala

Sessions: Using Apache Jetspeed to build dynamic, content driven Portals
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Santiago Gala is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, and VP of the Apache Portals project. He owns High Sierra Technology, dedicated to consultancy and development in telecommunications and software technologies. URL: http://www.hisitech.com/. Teaches AI and Software Engineering in the Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, and blogs in Spanish

Edwin Goei

Sessions: Java and XML Parsing Using Standard APIs

Edwin Goei is an engineer with Sun Microsystems where he currently works on Java and XML technologies. Among other projects, he has previously worked on Java virtual machines and X Window servers.

Christian Gross

Sessions: C++ and Apache using C++ Server

Christian Gross is a Trainer / Consultant interested in all aspects of software engineering, which relate to the Apache, Internet, XML, or cross-platform .NET. His thirst for everything computing started in High School, when on a Commodore Pet he wrote two lines of BASIC code; 10 Print "cool!" 20 Goto 10. The rest is history and has accumulated into computing, how to effectivily build software teams, and mentor people in new technologies. Christian has given many talks and written various articles and books.

Simon Hefti

Sessions: mod_websh: A Tcl-based Apache module for rapid application development

Simon Hefti is the main Webshell developer and a software architect at Netcetera. He works in a wide range Tcl/Webshell projects with the main focus on financial web applications. He is involved with Linux and Open Source Software since 1995. He holds a PhD in physics from the University of Bern, Switzerland, and served as a Post-Doc at the University of Michigan, USA.

Sterling Hughes

Sessions: Extending PHP 4
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Sterling Hughes is a freelance programmer, working developing applications on the Unix platform in C, C++, Perl, Java and PHP. He is the author of "The PHP Developer's Cookbook", and a developer on the PHP project, who's contributions include authoring the cURL, sockets and XSLT extensions. His email address is sterling@php.net.

Jim Jagielski

Sessions: ApacheCon Europe 2000 Closing Session, ApacheCon Europe 2000 Opening Session, Running a Successful Web Hosting Company

Jim's been active on the 'Net since the early 80's, starting as editor of the A/UX FAQ. He worked on the NCSA server and joined the Apache Group (as it was called back then) at a very early stage. He actively contributes on HTTPD, APR and Tomcat, but also hacks on other projects (ASF and others) as well in addition to mentoring many ASF incubator podlings. In addition to being a charter and core member of the ASF Jim serves as Director and Chairman for the foundation. His real job is as CTO for Covalent Technologies.

Kristof Kloeckner

Sessions: IBM and Open Source - A software agenda

Vice President, Business Integration Development and Director, IBM Hursley Laboratory

Ben Laurie

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Ben has been programming free software since 1992. He is on the board of directors of the Apache Software Foundation, and is a member of the Apache core team and the OpenSSL core team. As such, he contributes to a wide variety of free software projects and is the author of Apache-SSL. Together with his father Peter, he is also the author of Apache: The Definitive Guide. Ben is a director of A.L. Digital, a company specialising in web and security solutions and the owners of The Bunker, an ex-RAF nuclear bunker now fully redeployed as the ultimate in secure hosting.

Rasmus Lerdorf

Sessions: Introduction to PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf is known for having gotten the PHP project off the ground in 1995, the mod_info Apache module and he can be blamed for the ANSI92 SQL-defying LIMIT clause in mSQL 1.x which has now, at least conceptually, crept into both MySQL and PostgreSQL. Prior to joining Yahoo! as an infrastructure engineer in 2002, he was at a string of companies including Linuxcare, IBM, and Bell Canada working on Internet technologies.

Daniel Lopez Ridruejo

Sessions: Apache projects overview, Comanche, a GUI configuration tool for Apache

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Doug MacEachern

Sessions: mod_perl Version 2.0

Doug MacEachern is a developer at Covalent Technologies, Inc. He is the lead developer of the mod_perl Apache module, an Apache Software Foundation board member and co-author of the book "Writing Apache Modules with Perl and C".

Costin Manolache

Sessions: Advanced Tomcat Configuration and Performance Tuning
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Member of the servlet team @sun. He started in a small ISP in Romania - where he installed few hundred Linux servers in schools and small companies, with Apache/sendmail and Squid and small leased lines. After too many buffer overflows decided that Java is the only hope, and since then is a happy Java programmer.

Stefano Mazzocchi

Sessions: Adding XML capabilities with Cocoon, Toward the Semantic Web: a view of XML from outer space

Stefano Mazzocchi is a research scientist working on semantic web technologies for the SIMILE project in affiliation with the Digital Library Research Group at the MIT Libraries. He is also known for his open source activities withing the Apache Software Foundation of which he's been a member since 1999, a director between 2003 and 2005 and is now serving at the chair of the Apache Labs project. There, he's is mostly known for having started the Apache Cocoon project. He has also participated in several expert groups within the Java Community Process, such as the Servlet API, the Java XML API and more recently the Java Content Repository API. His research interests include data interoperability, knowledge management, software usability, data mining, user interface design and software engineering.

Craig McClanahan

Sessions: Migrating Apache JServ Applications to Tomcat

Craig McClanhan is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. His current responsibilities include being the architect for Sun Java Studio Creator, an IDE focused on easy development of web applications using JavaServer Faces. He is also the original founder of the Struts Framework project, and has been involved in other Apache projects as well (such as Tomcat and Jakarta Commons).

Jordi Montserrat

Sessions: MyComponents.com: the marketplace for reusable web applications
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Jordi worked several years for a consulting company specialized in geographical information system where he developed high skills for project management in an international environment. Before joining MyComponents.com, Jordi finished a postgrade in Management of Technology at the Swiss Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL, HEC Lausanne and the Business School of Texas - Austin, TX), his final work resulting in the launch of an Knowledge Management ASP service company. Jordi hold a master degree from the EPFL and fluently speaks/writes English, French, German and Spanish.

Peter Moulding

Sessions: Apache in the real world - beating the inhouse bias

Peter has 25 years experience building interactive systems and web sites. Mainframe, mini & micro systems to bring suppliers together with customers. Peter built some as the business owner, some as technical manager and some as the grunt on the bleeding edge of new technology. Projects from $1,000 to $20,000,000, from 1 person to 27,000 in Australia, Asia and USA.

Languages: 25 to date not counting some written by Peter. Education: University level Accounting, Law, Communications, Marketing and some of the 25 languages mentioned above.

Peter designed, built and improved 30 online customer sites before the Web was invented. He has built or improved more than 50 Web sites since.

William Nagy

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

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George Paolini

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George Paolini is the Vice President of Technology Advocacy and Community Development. In this role, he is responsible for the marketing and adoption of emerging, open technologies including the Java platform, Jini and XML. His objective is to drive adoption of these open technologies in an effort to capture developer mindshare and provide a level "playing field" for the software industry. Included in his group are Standards Integration, Technologies Marketing and Strategy, Evangelism, Evangelism Technical Support, Technology Messaging, the Java Community Process program, industry neutral Web Services and Web Content for the Java developer community and Brand Development for the Java and Jini brands. "My job is to act as the eyes and ears for the industry with regards to emerging technologies and open standards and to help Sun support these technologies," says Paolini. "In this role, I hope to help Sun respond more quickly to the needs of our customers and developer communities." Paolini has been employed with Sun since 1993. Prior to his current role, he served as Vice President of Java Community Development and Vice President of Marketing. As the Vice President of Java Community Development, he was responsible for creation and success of the Java Community Process program, the industry-neutral, open process through which Java technologies are evolved. Other responsibilities in this role were building and maintaining Sun's relationship with the licensees of the Java technology, defining and evangelizing the Java platform editions, and managing Sun's software licensing practices. As Vice President of Marketing, Paolini helped Sun create its first Internet marketing strategy, a role which led to evangelizing and promoting Java. Before working at Sun, Paolini spent over 13 years as an editor with daily newspapers throughout Northern California, including the San Francisco Examiner.

Tobias Ratschiller

Sessions: Advanced PHP: Web Applications - Sessions and Authentication, PHP from an IT Manager's Perspective
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Tobias Ratschiller is a New Media Consultant in Italy, specializing in the creation of large-scale dynamic Web sites. He has provided consulting and implementation work for some of the world's largest Web Sites and has contributed to several PHP titles and articles. Together with Till Gerken, he's currently writing a book titled Advanced Web Application Development with PHP, which will be published in April 2000 by New Riders. Tobias runs http //phpwizard.net.

Javier Rodriguez

Sessions: Building visually-consistent, multilingual Web sites with Apache and mod_perl

Javier A. Rodriguez is the Research and Development Manager at LatinB2B, the premiere B2B e-commerce enabler in LatinAmerica. Prior to LatinB2B, Mr. Rodriguez was Partner and Chief Scientist of Aldea Internet, among other renowed Mexican and US-based Internet companies. Mr. Rodriguez holds a B.S. in Telecommunications and Electronics Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, State of Mexico Campus (ITESM).

William A. Rowe Jr.

Sessions: Apache/WinNT: Security, security, wherefore art thou, security?
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William's contributions to Apache include numerous enhancements to the Win32 port of the HTTP Server project, including CGI, security, Service control, file system support, and APR design targeted at the Win32 native API, and author of mod_aspdotnet. He provides Win32 hints to Apache related lists, and has been a speaker at previous ApacheCon events. As a member of the ASF and the Apache httpd and APR projects, and a Senior Software Engineer with the Covalent Division of SpringSource, his work on Apache continues in areas such as integration of Apache 2 with the Win32 security model and add-in modules. William started his career developing an array of customized and revenue document imaging systems. Prior to joining Covalent, he provided consulting services in revenue document generation and management, data transformation, application integration and Web interface services.

Theo Schlossnagle

Sessions: The Backhand Project: load-balancing and monitoring Apache Web clusters
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Theo Schlossnagle is a Principal Consultant at OmniTI Computer Consulting where he designs and implements scalable solutions for highly trafficked sites and other clients in need of sound, scalable architectural engineering. He is author of Scalable Internet Architecture published by Sams. Theo is the author and maintainer of the mod_backhand load-balancing module for Apache, an author and maintainer of the Backhand Project and an active participant in a plethora of open source projects.

Matt Sergeant

Sessions: AxKit - an XML Delivery Toolkit for Apache

Matt Sergeant works for AxKit.com who specialise in building open source content management solutions for companies wishing to have ultimate control over the tools they use. His previous work has been the development of high speed internet solutions for companys like the BBC, Ericsson and Wood MacKenzie. In his "spare" time he can be found writing articles for XML.com and talking at various conferences.

Greg Stein

Sessions: WebDAV and Apache
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Greg Stein is an engineering manager at Google, where he manages the Blogger development team. Outside of work, he is the current Chairman of the Apache Software Foundation, and spends a lot of time with Subversion, WebDAV, and Python projects. Previously, Greg worked as a director of engineering at CollabNet where he managed the Subversion project and releases of CollabNet's SourceCast product. Prior to that, Greg worked at Microsoft on the commerce server and site server products.

Jon Stevens

Sessions: Turbine: Building Model 2+1 Web Applications

Jon Stevens is a recognized expert on integrating the Java language with Apache Web server software, is a founding member of the Open Source Java Apache and Jakarta Apache Projects, and frequently speaks at trade conferences. He currently is working on an Open Source Issue/Bug tracking system for CollabNet called Scarab that is based on the Java Apache technologies he helped develop.

Bill Stoddard

Sessions: Apache 2.0 for Windows

Bill Stoddard is a Senior Software Engineer with IBM and manager of IBM's Apache HTTP Server development team. He is member of the Apache Software Foundation and active contributor to the Apache HTTP Server project. Bill was the technical leader behind IBM's decision to drop development of its proprietary HTTP server in favor of adopting Apache.

Perry Stone

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Randy Terbush

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Randy Terbush is Managing Partner of the Tribal Knowledge Group and serves on the board of both the Open Source Development Lab (OSDL) and the Apache Software Foundation. One of the original co-founders of the Apache HTTP Project, Terbush is a recognized figure in the open-source software community. Terbush began his involvement with open-source in 1989, working on such projects as 386BSD/*BSD, Linux and X386/XFree86. In 1995, Terbush along with the other original Apache Group members developed the first version of the Apache HTTP server, which quickly became one of the most successful open-source projects in history. Today, Apache dominates, running on over 20 million of the world's Web sites. In 1998, Terbush founded Covalent Technologies where he held CEO and CTO positions managing technology, architecture and associated advanced development programs for Covalent.

Doug Tidwell

Sessions: Managing your Web site with Cocoon
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Doug Tidwell is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM. He was a speaker at the first XML conference in 1997, and has spoken on technical topics around the world. He works in IBM’s Software Strategy group, evangelizing emerging XML standards such as SCA, SDO and XForms. He is the author of O’Reilly’s XSLT (second edition now available!), and has written many articles on IBM’s developerWorks site and elsewhere on the Web. He lives with his wife and daughter (and Domino, the Hound of Renown) in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Jon Travis

Sessions: mod_snake: Flexible Apache modules in Python

Jon Travis is a software engineer for Covalent Technologies. His background includes writing security, network, and CAD software. He is the author of the Open Source projects, Camserv and mod_snake.

Gregory Trubetskoy

Sessions: mod_python
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Nathan Wallace

Sessions: Design Patterns in Web Programming, PHP: Hackers Paradise

Nathan began his development career with IBM helping to build their Visual Age for Java and Smalltalk suites. From there he moved into web programming and has spent the last two years running Synop, a PHP development company. He built and maintains the PHP Knowledge Base as part of http://www.faqts.com. After 18 months of development and refinement, Synop is currently in the release process for a number of large PHP applications.

Sanjiva Weerawarana

Sessions: Infrastructure for Web Services

Sanjiva Weerawarana is a Research Staff Member and Manager of the Component Systems group at IBM TJ Watson Research Center, where he has been since August 1997. His research is centered around component-oriented programming. He is part of the teams that developed Bean Markup Language (BML, http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/formula/bml), Bean Scripting Framework (BSF, http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/bsf), SOAP4J/Apache SOAP (http://xml.apache.org/soap), Web Services Toolkit ( http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/webservicestoolkit) and the WSDL Toolkit (http://www.alphaWorks.ibm.com/tech/wsdltoolkit). Weerawarana received his BS (1988) and MS (1989) in Applied Mathematics / Computer Science from Kent State University and his Ph.D. (1994) in Computer Science from Purdue University.

John Zukowski

Sessions: Developing Dynamic Web Sites with JavaServer Pages

John Zukowski conducts strategic Java consulting with JZ Ventures, Inc. His latest books are Java Collections and the Definitive Guide to Swing for Java 2 (2nd ed) for Apress.