About the Authors
PETAR TAHCHIEV is a software engineer who serves as a Jakarta PMC member with the Apache Software Foundation. For many years he has been the Jakarta Cactus lead developer and part of the Apache Maven development team. In addition, he is also a member of the JCP, leader of the Bulgarian Java User Group (BGJUG), and a frequent speaker at OpenFest, ApacheCON, CommunityONE, and many other conferences. Born and raised in Bulgaria, Petar graduated with honors in mathematics from Sofia University. He spent many years working in Germany and the Netherlands for companies like Unic and Hewlett Packard. Now he is back in lovely Sofia, working predominantly with Phamola, his own company, which assists and advises clients on how to excel through technology. Petar authored chapters 1–11 and 14–16, and appendixes A–D.
FELIPE LEME is a software engineer who is very passionate about TDD (test-driven development), Java, and computers in general. He got his first computer at age 11, learned Java in 1996, and wrote his first JUnit test case in 2000. Since he earned a Bachelor degree in Computer Engineering at the State University of Campinas (Uni-camp) in 1997, he has worked almost exclusively with Java, and has contributed back to the community in many ways: as a committer for open source projects such as DbUnit, as a speaker in conferences such as JavaOne, as an individual member of the JCP, and as a blogger and writer at java.net. Felipe authored chapters 17–19. After living alternately in São Paulo, Brazil, and California, U.S., he finally settled down in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lives with his wife, kids, and hermit crabs.
VINCENT MASSOL, after spending several night-years creating Jakarta Cactus and Codehaus Cargo and participating to the Apache Maven open source projects, is now enjoying full-time development of XWiki, an open source project offering a state-of-the-art enterprise wiki. Vincent is also the CTO of XWiki SAS, a company offering services around the XWiki open source project. He was the lead author of the first edition. Vincent lives in Paris, France, and can be found online at www.massol.net.
GARY GREGORY has more than 20 years of experience in object-oriented languages including Smalltalk, Java, and the whole soup of XML and database technologies. Gary has held positions at Ashton-Tate, ParcPlace-Digitalk, and several other software companies, including Seagull Software, where he currently develops application servers for legacy integration. He is an active member of the Apache Software Foundation and the Apache Jakarta Project Management Committee, and contributes regularly to various Apache Commons projects. Born and raised in Paris, France, Gary received a B.A. in linguistics and computer science from the University of California at Los Angeles. Gary authored chapters 12–13 and appendix E. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife, their son, golf clubs, and assorted surfboards. He can be reached at http://www.garygregory.com.