About the Authors

The authors of this book have a few things in common. All four hail from Ireland, work for the IBM software group, and have made significant contributions to the development of both XPages and Domino Designer.

Martin Donnelly is a software architect and tech lead for the XPages runtime team in IBM Ireland. He graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree from University College Cork in 1984 and later completed a Master’s degree in Computer Science at Boston University (2000). Martin has worked on all XPages releases, from Notes/Domino 8.5 through 8.5.3, and also worked on a precursor technology: XFaces for Lotus Component Designer. In the 1990s, while living and working in Massachusetts, he was a lead developer on Domino Designer. Now based once again in Ireland, Martin lives in Cork with his wife, three daughters, and two greyhounds. Despite the fact that he should have hung up his boots years ago, he still persists in playing soccer on a weekly basis and enjoys salmon angling during the summer when the opportunity presents itself.

Maire Kehoe is a senior software engineer in the IBM Ireland software lab. She completed an Honors Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Applications in Dublin City University (DCU) and began working for IBM in 2003. She worked on the Lotus Component Designer product from 2004 to 2007 and moved to IBM Lotus Domino to help develop the XPages runtime for the Domino server. Maire lives in Dublin with her husband and enjoys travel and musicals (and tea).

Tony McGuckin is a senior software engineer in the IBM Ireland software lab. After studying Software Engineering at the University of Ulster, he began his career with IBM in 2006, working in software product development on the Lotus Component Designer runtime. He then transitioned into the XPages core runtime team when XPages was born. When not directly contributing to the core runtime, Tony is kept busy with research and development of the next generation of IBM software development tools, as well as middleware, conferencing, and consultancy. Outside the lab, Tony enjoys food, wine, and cooking; recently acquired a curious taste for classical music; and likes to get off the beaten track to take in Irish scenery and wildlife.

Dan O’Connor is a senior software engineer in the Littleton, Massachusetts, software lab. He graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Limerick, Ireland in 2000. He joined IBM through Lotus Software in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 2000. Since then, Dan has worked on different projects, but most have focused on Eclipse and JavaServer Faces. In 2002, he joined the Rational Application Developer team to work on a “new” technology called JSF. In 2006, he rejoined the Lotus division to work on Lotus Component Designer and moved to Domino Designer in 2008 as the UI team lead. Dan lives in Milton, Massachusetts, with his wife and daughter. In his spare time, he spends too many hours following Gaelic football and occasionally dabbles in “home improvement,” much to the profit of the local plumber!