Aristides Villarreal Bravo is a Java developer, a member of the NetBeans Dream Team, and a Java user groups leader. He lives in Panama. He has organized and participated in various conferences and seminars related to Java, JavaEE, NetBeans, the NetBeans platform, free software, and mobile devices. He is the author of jmoordb and tutorials, and he blogs about Java, NetBeans, and web development. Aristides has participated in numerous interviews on sites about topics including NetBeans, NetBeans DZone, and JavaHispano. He is a developer of plugins for NetBeans. He is the CEO of Javscaz Software Developers. He has also worked on Developers of jmoordb.