About the Author

Antonio Goncalves is a senior software architect living in Paris. Focused on Java development since the late 1990s, his career has taken him to different countries and companies where he works now as a Java EE consultant. As a former BEA consultant, he has great expertise in application servers such as WebLogic, JBoss, and, of course, GlassFish. He is particularly fond of open source and is a member of the OSSGTP (Open Source Solution Get Together Paris). He is also the cocreator and coleader of the Paris Java User Group and more recently Devoxx France.

Antonio wrote his first book on Java EE 5, in French, in 2007. He then joined the JCP to become an Expert Member of various JSRs (Java EE 6, JPA 2.0, and EJB 3.1) and wrote Beginning Java EE 6 with Apress. Still involved in the JCP, Antonio joined the Java EE 7 and EJB 3.2 Expert Groups in 2010.

For the last few years, Antonio has given talks at international conferences mainly about Java EE, including JavaOne, Devoxx, GeeCon, The Server Side Symposium, Jazoon, and many Java User Groups. He has also written numerous technical papers and articles for IT web sites (DevX) and IT magazines (Programmez, Linux Magazine). Since 2009, he has been part of the French Java podcast called Les Cast Codeurs (influenced by the Java Posse). For all his work for the Java community, Antonio has been elected Java Champion.

Antonio is a graduate of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris (with an engineering degree in IT), Brighton University (with an MSc in object-oriented design), and UFSCar University in Brazil (MPhil in Distributed Systems).

Follow Antonio on Tweeter (@agoncal) and on his blog (www.antoniogoncalves.org).