Antoine Herzog started with computers in 1981, with the ZX81, writing machine code for the CPU, and has never stopped programming since then. He started programming in Java in 2003 and he started building portals with JBoss Portal in 2005 (version 2.2), and followed on with GateIn. He contributes to the project, with debugging, jira, wiki, and forum posts. He is very pleased to contribute and help the community to develop and use this nice technology and its associated tools.
Since 2006, he works at Sysemo Sarl (www.sysemo.com), his own company, as an Expert in J2EE, JBoss AS, GateIn, JSF, RichFaces, EJB, and Hibernate.
He has helped many companies to build their portals, both at management level and the programming level.
He also founded www.presta-expert.com. He programs and runs this portal website, on a JBoss AS7 platform, with GateIn 3.4.0.
Antoine graduated from France's Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avancées in 1991 (ENSTA, Concours des Mines), where he enjoyed pursuing knowledge of sciences and engineering alongside his self-taught skills.
Gurkan Erdogdu is CTO and Co-Founder of MechSoft. He has been involved with Java and Java EE technologies since 1999. Gurkan is also very active in the open source world and is a member of several open source foundations. Gurkan is a member of Apache Software Foundation and is a founder of the project Apache OpenWebBeans. Gurkan also gives training and special consultancies on Java and Java EE technologies. Gurkan holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU). Gurkan lives in Ankara with his wife and little daughter. He can be reached at <[email protected]>.
Rafael Liu has been working with Java for 7 years as a Developer, Architect, and Consultant. Focusing mainly on JEE and middleware solutions from mainstream vendors, he has worked in many mission-critical systems for the Government of Brazil, defining infrastructure architecture and doing pre-production support such as load tests, performance analysis, bottleneck diagnosis, and tuning of both applications and JVMs. He is currently Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, where he deals with Application Servers, SOA-related middleware solutions, portal, development frameworks, and basically most of the JBoss stack. Rafael is an open source enthusiast and a GNU/Linux fan. Speaking and writing about Java is one of his passions.