Gurkan Erdogdu is the CTO and cofounder of MechSoft Software Solutions, based in Turkey. He has been working with Java^TM and Java^TM EE technologies since 1999. He is a member of several open source foundations, including Apache Software Foundation and OW2 Consortium. He is founder of the Apache OpenWebBeans and OW2 Siwpas open source projects. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU). He lives in Istanbul with his wife and little daughter and can be reached at <[email protected]>.

Jérôme Leleu is a software architect living in Paris, France.

A consultant for 7 years, he has worked for many different companies in different fields and with a variety of people. He has participated in many IT projects as a developer, technical lead, or projects manager, though mostly in the J2EE technology.

Currently working in a French telecom company, he is the software architect of a WebSSO, which supports very high traffic: millions of authentications from millions of users everyday.

He is involved in open source development as a CAS (WebSSO) chairman. He's interested in security/protocol issues, and has developed several libraries (refer to http://www.pac4j.org) to implement client support for protocols such as CAS, OAuth, and OpenID.

He is the founder of an SSO Cloud provider, which is based on CAS (refer to https://www.casinthecloud.com).

Peter Major is a software developer at ForgeRock, where he has mainly been working on OpenAM, an enterprise scale single sign-on solution. In the past 5 years, he has worked on various Maven projects of divergent sizes and has been through the different stages of software development, testing, and release.

Phani Krishna Pemmaraju has more than 10 years of IT experience with expertise in SOA, ESB, J2EE/Spring technologies, mobile computing, and Oracle Fusion Middleware products. He completed his master's degree in computer applications as a topper from Osmania University, India. He has rich implementation expertise in EAI/SOA integrations and has worked on some challenging projects across different verticals.

He has extensive experience in architecting, designing, developing, and testing solutions using various SOA technology (SCA/JBI) products, such as Oracle Fusion, Java CAPS, and Glassfish ESB. He has worked for highly reputed IT consulting companies and various prestigious clients and played a key role in architecting and designing solutions. He has a penchant for learning new technologies and their implementation methodologies.