About the Authors

Mike Keith was the co-specification lead for JPA 1.0 and a member of the JPA 2.0 and JPA 2.1 expert groups. He sits on a number of other Java Community Process expert groups and the Enterprise Expert Group (EEG) in the OSGi Alliance. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Carleton University, and has over 20 years experience in persistence and distributed systems research and practice. He has written papers and articles on JPA and spoken at numerous conferences around the world. He is employed as an architect at Oracle in Ottawa, Canada, and is married with four kids and two dogs.

Merrick Schincariol is a consulting engineer at Oracle, specializing in middleware technologies. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Lakehead University, and has more than a decade of experience in enterprise software development. He spent some time consulting in the pre-Java enterprise and business intelligence fields before moving on to write Java and J2EE applications. His experience with large-scale systems and data warehouse design gave him a mature and practiced perspective on enterprise software, which later propelled him into doing Java EE container implementation work.