Patrick Forhan is a grizzled Java developer and an occasional accidental snake handler. He posts ideas and articles at http://muddyhorse.com.
Peter Johnson has over 34 years of experience in enterprise computing. He has been working with Java for 17 years and has been heavily involved in Java performance tuning for the past 12 years. He is a frequent speaker on Java performance topics at various conferences, including the Computer Measurement Group annual conference, JBoss World, and Linux World. He is a moderator for the IDE and WildFly/JBoss forums at JavaRanch. He is the co-author of the book JBoss in Action, Manning Publications, also authored by Javid Jamae, and has been a reviewer on numerous books on topics that range from Java to Windows PowerShell.
Luca Masini is a senior software engineer and an architect, born as a game developer for Commodore 64 (Football Manager) and Commodore Amiga (Ken il guerriero). He soon switched to object-oriented programming and after that, from its beginning in 1995, he was fascinated by the Java language.
He worked on this passion as a consultant for major Italian banks, developing and integrating the main software projects for which he usually was the technical lead. He adopted Java Enterprise in environments, where COBOL was the flagship platform, and converted them from mainframe-centric to distributed environments.
He then shifted his attention toward open source, starting from Linux and then to enterprise frameworks. With enterprise frameworks, he was able to introduce concepts such as IoC, ORM, and MVC with low impact. For that, he was an early adopter of Spring, Hibernate, Struts, and a whole host of other technologies, which in the long run, have given his customers a technological advantage and therefore, reduced development costs.
After introducing a new technology, he decided that it was time for simplification and standardization of development with Java EE, and for this, he's now working at the ICT of a large Italian company where he introduced build tools (Maven and Continuous Integration), archetypes of projects, and Agile Development with plain standards.
Finally, he focused his attention on mobilizing the enterprise, and now he is working on a whole set of standard and development processes to introduce mobile concepts and applications for sales force and management.
He has worked on the following books from Packt Publishing:
- Securing WebLogic Server 12c, co-authored by Rinaldi Vincenzo
- Google Web Toolkit GWT Java AJAX Programming, Prabhakar Chaganti
- Spring Web Flow 2 Web Development, Sven Lüppken and Markus Stäuble
- Spring Persistence with Hibernate, Ahmad Reza Seddighi
- JavaFX 1.2 Application Development Cookbook, Vladimir Vivien
Maurizio Pillitu has over 12 years of experience in the ICT industry, mostly related to open source technologies. In these 12 years, he has held different positions: Software Developer / Designer / Architect, Sales Engineer, Technical Trainer, and Project and Team Leader.
Through experience and education, he tried to push the Agile approach, thus providing a smooth path for change to the customer, incentivizing strong collaboration, and carefully managing the expectations of both parties.
He is passionate about application lifecycle management and frequently advises teams on how to structure software releases and deliveries in an automated and sustainable way.
He has wide knowledge of J2EE technologies and related open source frameworks, especially of Enterprise Content Management frameworks/products and large-scale web publishing platforms.
He is always keen on contributing code and ideas to the open source communities.
The following are his specialties:
- Team behavior and dynamics (Certified Scrum Master)
- Application Lifecycle Management and build tools (Maven and Puppet trainer)
- ECM/CMS open source solutions (ACA and ACE certifications)
You can contact him at http://www.linkedin.com/in/mpillitu.
Bhavani P Polimetla has been learning and working in the IT Industry since 1990. He graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and a Master's degree in Computer Applications from Andhra University, India. He has worked on standalone Swing applications to grid computing and multi-tier architecture. He has worked with top clients of the world, including three from Fortune 50 companies. At present, he is working as a software architect in Mountain View, California, USA.
To demonstrate his skills, he has completed over 25 certifications in the subjects of spectrum of Java, Database, Project Management, and Architecture. He has also achieved lots of awards for many of his projects. He spends his free time indulging in social service activities. To learn more about him, you can visit his website at www.polimetla.com.