Krum Bakalsky has finished his MSc studies in theoretical computer science from Sofia University. Afterwards he joined SAP, where he is currently part of the Java server team. He drives different EJB related topics, and is responsible for JPA tasks as well. He is SCJP6, SCBCD5, and SCWCD5 certified, and is very enthusiastic about the new Java EE 6 platform, hoping that it will gain great adoption and will receive good popularity. His professional interests include popular open source frameworks, like Spring, Hibernate, and Quartz. He has some basic involvement in several tooling projects in the Eclipse family, and is interested in cloud computing topics as well.
Being an amateur mathematician, in his spare time Krum likes to enjoy different math activities, often related to his great math library, that he continues to maintain and expand. Krum is a great koala lover and donator. His dream is to live one day a peaceful idyllic life in his own house, far from civilization and surrounded by several koalas.
Andrey Gotchalk has more than 12 years of experience in software development. He is certified by Sun Microsystems and Microsoft. He has worked for multiple multilingual international software companies in Europe and North America, where has served in different roles as senior software developer, team leader, and project manager. He speaks four languages and he has lived and traveled at many places of the world. Currently he lives and works in Montreal, Canada.
He has strong OOA/OOD and RDBMS skills, extensive experience in various technologies as Java/JEE, PHP5, X++, Object Pascal, PL/SQL, Web development, ERP systems, and so on. But his last preferences are JEE and mostly standard solutions like EJB, JPA, JSP, JSF, and much more. He is also interested in analyzing and using various JEE open source projects. You can reach him at< [email protected]>.
Deepak Vohra is a consultant and a principal member of the NuBean.com software company. Deepak is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Web Component Developer, and has worked in the fields of XML and Java programming and J2EE for over five years. Deepak is the co-author of the Apress book, Pro XML Development with Java Technology and was the technical reviewer for the O’Reilly book, WebLogic: The Definitive Guide. Deepak was also the technical reviewer for the Course Technology PTR book, Ruby Programming for the Absolute Beginner, and the technical editor for the Manning Publications book, Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action. Deepak is also the author of the Packt Publishing books JDBC 4.0 and Oracle JDeveloper for J2EE Development, and Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g.