About the Author

Josh Juneau has been developing software and database systems for several years. Enterprise application programming and database development has been the focus of his career since the beginning. He became an Oracle Database administrator and adopted the PL/SQL language for performing administrative tasks and developing applications for Oracle Database. In an effort to build more complex solutions, he began to incorporate Java into his PL/SQL applications and later developed stand-alone and web applications with Java. Josh wrote his early Java web applications utilizing JDBC to work with back-end databases. Later, he incorporated frameworks into his enterprise solutions, including Java EE and JBoss Seam. Today, he primarily develops enterprise web solutions utilizing Java EE and other enterprise technologies.

He has extended his knowledge of the JVM by developing applications with other JVM languages such as Jython and Groovy. Since 2006, Josh has been the editor and publisher for the Jython Monthly newsletter. In late 2008, he began a podcast dedicated to the Jython programming language. Josh was the lead author for The Definitive Guide to Jython (Apress, 2010), Oracle PL/SQL Recipes (Apress, 2010), and Java 7 Recipes (Apress, 2012). He works as an application developer and systems analyst at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and he is the lead for the Django-Jython project (http://code.google.com/p/django-jython/). Josh has a wonderful wife and four children, with whom he loves to spend time and teach technology. To hear more from Josh, follow his blog, which can be found at http://jj- blogger.blogspot.com. You can also follow him on Twitter via @javajuneau.