About the Authors

Patrick Keegan is one of the lead technical writers for NetBeans IDE. He has been writing about the IDE since May 1999, when NetBeans was a small Czech company yet to be acquired by Sun Microsystems. He lives in Prague, Czech Republic.

Ludovic Champenois is a senior architect at Sun Microsystems, and has been with Sun and Java for the last ten years. He is currently the tech lead and architect for NetBeans Java EE support, working with the Application Server group (J2EE 1.4, Java EE 5, and GlassFish open source community) and the Tools organization to make sure that NetBeans IDE is actively responding to changes in the Java Platform (Java ME, Java SE, and Java EE 5). He is a civil engineer from L'Ecole des Mines, Saint-Etienne, France.

Gregory Crawley conceptualized and implemented the Mobility device fragmentation solution for NetBeans IDE 4.0. He continues to be an avid NetBeans IDE user and developer of J2ME games in association with Cotopia Wireless.

Charlie Hunt is a Java Performance Engineer at Sun Microsystems. He has been working with Java since 1997 and has held many positions at Sun Microsystems, including Java Architect, NetBeans Technology Evangelist, and Java Performance Engineer.

Christopher Webster, a member of the NetBeans Enterprise Pack development team, focuses on service-oriented architecture (SOA) development tools. Before joining Sun, Chris was a computer scientist at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Chris holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of Hawaii and an M.S. in computer science from Baylor University.

John Jullion-Ceccarelli has been writing about NetBeans IDE since he joined Sun Microsystems in 2001. John is the original author of much of the documentation that appears on www.netbeans.org. Currently, he is one of the lead technical writers on the NetBeans project.

Jiri Prazak is an engineer on the NetBeans Mobility Pack team. Jiri has been working for Sun in various capacities for five years. If he's not writing code or contributing to books, there's a good chance you will find him scaling enormous rocks in various mountain ranges around the world.

Martin Ryzl is the engineering manager for NetBeans Mobility Pack. He joined NetBeans in March 1999 when it still a small Czech startup company. Besides other projects, he has been involved in Java ME support since 1999, helped to integrate the first version with the award-wining J2ME Wireless Toolkit, and was later on responsible for Sun Java Studio Mobility and NetBeans Mobility Pack.

Gregg Sporar has been a software developer for over twenty years, working on projects ranging from control software for a burglar alarm to 3D graphical user interfaces. He has been using Java since 1998, and his interests include user interfaces, development tools, and performance profiling. He works for Sun Microsystems as a Technology Evangelist on the NetBeans project.

Geertjan Wielenga is the technical writer responsible for NetBeans documentation relating to plug-in modules and rich-client applications. He has been a technical writer since 1996, focusing mainly on software documentation, with a special emphasis on IDEs. Geertjan holds an Ll.B degree from the University of Natal in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. He is a very active blogger (http://blogs.sun.com/geertjan).