Mohamed Shazin Sadakath is an experienced software engineer with over 9 years of software development experience in J2SE-, J2EE-, and Spring-based applications. He is a BSc (Hons) software engineering graduate, having achieved first class honors. He has worked in different domains, ranging from telecommunications to real estate. In his spare time, he contributes to open source projects, such as Spring Security, and writes technical articles for blogs. He is a Stack Overflow Moderator and loves answering Java-related questions.
I would like to thank my loving wife, Nadhiya, for her help and encouragement while writing this book. I would like to thank Gunith Devasurendra for the technical reviewing of this book. I would also like to thank Sudharshan Selvenayagam and Manoj Senevirathne for their assistance while writing this book.