About the Authors at Java.sun.com

John Bacon has been a journalist for more than 20 years, the last 17 as an editor and writer at USA Today.

Jennifer Ball is a staff writer at Sun. She writes about web application technologies that are part of the Java EE platform.

Phil Bartholo is an Internet Systems Consultant specializing in Java Technologies for WaterWare Internet Services. He has written for Dot-Com Builder, java.sun.com, and developer.iplanet.com. His web page is at www.bartholo.com.

Jon Byous has been writing about technology -- from chips to mainframes -- for twenty years, working for Sun, Cisco, Oracle, Netscape, Quantum, and dozens of smaller tech firms.

Zhiqun Chen a staff engineer in the Java Card engineering team at Sun Microsystems, Inc., developed Sun's Java Card virtual machine reference implementation. She was a key contributor to the design and implementation of the Java Card APIs and has extensive experience in developing smart card applications. Zhiqun is author of the Java Series book Java Card Technology for Smart Card: Architecture and Programmer's Guide. Zhiqun holds a M.S. in computer science from Stanford University and a B.S. in physics from the University of Kentucky.

Jane Christophersen specializes in explaining things that people have a tough time swallowing -- whether it's an endoscopic tube, corporate restructuring or technology. Based in Northern California, she's spent years translating the work of engineers and researchers into information that employees, customers and patients can digest easily. Topics she's covered range from anterior cruciate ligament rehab to Java technology to veterinary nutriceuticals. Contact her through her Web site: www.christophersen.com.

Mandy Chung is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. She leads the product registration support for Java SE and also designs the Java API for Sun Service Tags support.

Tom Clements is a freelance tech writer and poet, specializing in web services, application servers, wireless communications and device driver technology.

Michael Cymerman is the research and development director at GroupServe, a Washington, D.C.-based telecommunications firm that creates Internet applications to facilitate group communication.

Heidi Dailey left her post as a high school English teacher to enter the realm of high technology. She has written numerous technical specification documents and developed courseware for Silicon Valley businesses and is now exploring the world of Java technology as a staff writer for java.sun.com.

Christine Dorffi is the Sun Developer Network managing editor for developer content on the Mobility, Java FX and Java ME web sites. She travels frequently, especially to the Philippines, where she was born and raised.

Robert Eckstein has worked with Java since its first release. In a previous life, he has been a programmer and editor for O'Reilly Media, Inc. and a programmer for Motorola's cellular technology division. He has written or edited a number of books, including Java Swing, Java Enterprise Best Practices, Using Samba, XML Pocket Reference, and Webmaster in a Nutshell. In his spare time he has been known to tinker with filmmaking and digital photography, as well as hacking with vintage video game consoles.

Yu Feng is currently an independent consultant specializing in Java technologies such as J2ME, J2EE and object-oriented software development. His J2ME application "MotoShop" won the Grand Prize in the Motorola J2ME Virtual Developer Contest in August 2000. Before authoring this book, Yu Feng was the chief architect at iNetProfit, Inc., located in Austin, Texas for two years. Prior to iNetProfit, he was a Java and database consultant. Yu Feng has a master's degree in computer science from the University of Texas in Austin and B.S. degree in physics from Peking University.

Kam Hay Fung has been a Java Consultant at the Sun Java Center, Australia since 2000. He is Sun certified on both the Java 2 Platform at the Developer level, and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition at the Web Component Developer level. He has been developing applications using Java technology for more than 5 years. Prior to working at the Center, he spent more than 10 years on developing many types of applications, including e-business applications, distributed information systems, real-time embedded systems and CORBA based applications, using many programming languages.

Eric Giguere is a software developer for iAnywhere Solutions, a subsidiary of Sybase, where he works on Java technologies for handheld and wireless computing. He holds BMath and MMath degrees in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and has written extensively on computing topics.

Rinaldo Di Giorgio is a regular columnist for JavaWorld. He would like to thank members of the Brazil project team at Sun for their support in getting some of the examples in this article to work.

Vikram Goyal is the author of Pro Java ME MMAPI, published by Apress. This book explains how to add multimedia capabilities to Java-enabled phones. Vikram is also the author of the Jakarta Commons Online Bookshelf and helps manage a free craft projects website.

Martin Hardee is "manager emeritus" of the java.sun.com Web site, and writes occasional features about consumer and enterprise technologies.

Janice J. Heiss is a technical writer who has explored the Java platform in more than 200 articles that range widely from Java ME to Java SE and Java EE. In addition, she has written articles about Solaris, scripting languages, how developers write code, software languages of the future, and many other dimensions of programming.

Anil Hemrajani is the Chief Technology Officer at iSavvix, a technology services firm for full-service Java and Internet Technology solutions. He can be reached at anil@isavvix.com.

Bruce Hopkins is author of the book Bluetooth for Java and is an enthusiast for mobile, embedded, and wireless application development. He holds a bachelor of science degree in electrical and computer engineering from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.

Jim Inscore has contributed to Java developer content and developer products at Sun since 1997.

John Kirkley is a writer and editor located in Mill Valley, Calif. His more than 40 years experience in the computer and communications industries includes editing Datamation magazine for over a dozen years and heading up his own marketing communications company for the past 15 years.

Eric Larson is a Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is co-author of Administrating Web Servers, Security and Maintenance and The WOW Web Server Training Course. Eric has been working with Java since joining Sun in 1996. Eric holds a degree in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Rich Levin has been involved in the personal computer industry since 1979, as a software developer, reseller, consultant, journalist, and broadcaster. He has appeared, been profiled in, or written for CBS Radio, CMP Media, Dorling Kindersley, EarthWeb, Fawcette Publications, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Penton Media, BusinessWeek, Byte, Compute!, PC/Computing, PC Magazine, PC Week, PC World, Popular Science, and many other leading industry periodicals and Webzines.

Norbert Lindenberg is the technical lead for Java Internationalization in Sun Microsystems' Java Web Services group. Before joining Sun, he worked on a variety of internationalization projects at General Magic and Apple Computer. He holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Universität Karlsruhe, Germany.

Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud is a developer, author, and trainer who has presented technical tutorials at international conferences worldwide. His publications (two books; Distributed Programming with Java, and Learning Wireless Java, in addition to dozens of technical articles) have been translated into several languages including Korean, Czech, Japanes, Chinese, Italian, and Russian. He holds a B.Sc. in Data Analysis and a Masters degree in Computer Science, both from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Middlesex University in England. Qusay can be reached at qmahmoud@javacourses.com

Richard Marejka has worked with Sun technology for over 20 years. His background includes education, consulting, Solaris developer support, and product development. In his spare time he enjoys his bicycle, plays and coaches hockey, and participates in competitive dance with his daughters.

Josh Marinacci is a JavaFX Staff Engineer, and a developer and evangelist for a new software platform at Sun Microsystems. He spends his time not only programming, but also writing articles, blogging, speaking, and traveling extensively. He graduated with a BS in Computer Sciences from Georgia Tech in 1997, specializing in Graphics, Visualization, and Usability. Josh is the co-author of "Swing Hacks", published by O'Reilly Inc, 2005.

David Marks is an enterprise Java application architect based in Valley Forge, PA. He has worked with Java technology since the beta release of 1.0, and integrating personal computing with enterprise systems since 1984. You can reach David by writing to DavidMarks2000@Hotmail.com.

Scott McPherson is the founder and President of Maczieg Software, a Silicon Valley-based Java software company. Scott and his company recently launched MochaMail Online, the Internet's first Java-based free email service.

Susan Mitchell relishes interviewing sources in Silicon Valley and far beyond to make high-tech stories relevant to consumers and executives around the globe. She also writes for nurses on topics such as the international outbreak of meningococcal disease spread from the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in 2000. Susan's readers can contact her at iComProse@onemain.com.

Steven Meloan has covered the Web and the Internet for such publications as Wired, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and the San Francisco Examiner. He has also written for American Cybercast's award winning Web Episodic, "The Pyramid."

Kieron Murphy is the editorial manager of EarthWeb and a freelance writer in New York City. He has written for Developer.com, Gamelan, JARS, JavaWorld, SunWorld, the Java Report, and several other technical publications, including IEEE Potentials. And he really knows how to enjoy a good meal.

Dana Nourie is a technical writer in the Java community and has worked with Java technology for many years.

Rodrigo Oliveira is a software engineer currently working for Propertyware. He specializes in J2EE application design and development. He has worked on several J2EE applications for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Leapfrog, MobileWorkforce, and the James Irvine Foundation.

Ed Ort is a writer on the staff of the Sun Developer Network. He writes technical articles that appear on java.sun.com and developers.sun.com. After a long career at IBM, where he focused on relational database technologies and programming languages, Ed came to Sun and turned his attention exclusively to Java technology. Besides writing, Ed also hosts Java Deep Dive videos, manages the SDN Ask the Experts program, and the Enterprise Java Technologies Tech Tips blog. When he's not writing, hosting videos, running chats, or handling Tech Tip blogs, Ed is usually hiking or jogging in the mountains that surround Las Vegas, Nevada.

C. Enrique Ortiz is a software architect and developer, and a wireless mobility technologist and writer. He is author or co-author of many publications, a co-designer of the original Sun Microsystems' the Mobile Java Developer Certification Exam, and has been an active participant in the wireless Java community and in various J2ME expert groups. Enrique holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Puerto Rico and has more than 15 years of software engineering, product development, and management experience.

Rick Palkovic is a staff writer for Sun Developer Network. He has written about Solaris and Java technologies for longer than he likes to admit, composing everything from man pages to technical white papers.

Jeffrey Pawlan founded Pawlan Communications in 1991 to provide independent consulting services to large and small companies all over the United States. In this capacity, he has designed many wireless LANs, RFID tag systems, and handheld products. Currently, his favorite research areas are low noise wide dynamic range amplifiers, and low phase noise oscillators.

Monica Pawlan is a manager and writer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., who enjoys learning and writing about new Java platform technologies. She also likes to garden, play guitar, and travel.

Roger Riggs is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. with a focus on design and architecture of the Java 2 Micro Edition platform for wireless devices. He led Sun's efforts within the Java Community Process to standardize the APIs for wireless devices in the MIDP effort. Previously, he led the effort to develop the JavaPhone technology APIs.

Mark Roth is a member of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition team. He is currently a co-lead for the JavaServer Pages specification version 2.0, and was the primary implementor of Portable Interceptors in the Java technology and CORBA Reference Implementation.

Madhu Siddalingaiah is a founding principle of SEA Corporation, a consulting and development firm. He has published numerous articles and books about Java technology and speaks at technology conferences around the world. Outside of work, Madhu can be found flying helicopters and playing drums, but not at the same time. Madhu can be reached at madhu@madhu.com.

Mary Smaragdis is a marketing gal at Sun. She was hired to do PR for the Java platform back before there was such things as J2EE, J2SE and J2ME. She's held various jobs at Sun including executive speechwriting (she thinks Gosling may have actually considered some of her ideas before discarding), front page editor of java.sun.com and all sorts of other odd jobs. She's thrilled to contribute as a writer for java.sun.com from time-to-time.

Daniel Steinberg is a recovering academic who now enjoys spending his time as a developer using Java technology. He is also a trainer and an author. He covers Java technology on the Macintosh for the O'Reilly Network, and for JavaWorld magazine and also writes for developerWorks. He is the co-author of the Java 2 Bible and the Java 2 Bible Enterprise Edition from Hungry Minds. Daniel contributed to Wrox publications on WebObjects and on Mac OS X for the Java platform and is co-author of a book to be published by Prentice Hall on Extreme Programming. When he is not writing, he loves pushing his two daughters on their "non-JFC swingset" in the back yard. Currently Daniel is working with Dim Sum Thinking, Inc. as its director of Java offerings and can be reached at daniel@dimsumthinking.com.

Mark VandenBrink Mark VandenBrink is Chief Architect for systems software at Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector, where his team has been working on KVM-based wireless technology for over three years. He was the leader of the Mobile Information Device Profile standardization effort, and a member of the Connected Limited Device Configuration expert group.

Laura Geele Wang writes about new developments in Java technology, the printing industry, computer software, and network security from her office, which is in the left corner of the Silicon Valley. You can reach her at lgeelew@pacbell.net.

John Zukowski conducts strategic Java consulting with JZ Ventures, Inc., offers technical support through AnswerSquad.com, and is working with SavaJe Technologies to develop a next-generation mobile phone platform. His latest books are Mastering Java 2, J2SE 1.4 (Sybex, April 2002) and Learn Java with JBuilder 6 (Apress, March 2002). Contact John at jaz@zukowski.net.

Dr. Jun Zhu Dr. Jun Zhu is a research scientist. He has been working with Java technology since 1996. His work is focused on advanced image processing and data mining technology. Dr. Zhu has a Ph.D. in biomedical science and a master's degree in computer science from SUNY at Albany and a B.E. in electrical engineering from Tsinghua University.