DMITRIY KOPYLENKO fell in love with computers when he was 15. When he got his first 80286 IBM PC/AT back in his hometown of Kharkov, Ukraine, he began to play with QBasic, Pascal, and later, X86 Assembler. Currently, Dmitriy works for the Enterprise Systems and Services division of Rutgers University, the state university of New Jersey, as a lead Java architect. Dmitriy designs and develops enterprise business systems with J2EE and the Spring framework. Dmitriy is also an active Spring framework developer. Dmitriy's current interests are Aspect Oriented Programming, exploring the possibilities of building real-time systems using RTSJ (JSR-1), and commercial aviation. He can be reached at dkopylen@rutgers.edu.