About the Authors

Chuck Cavaness is a senior Java Architect for NetVendor, a B2B supplier-enablement Internet company. He specializes in full J2EE architecture design and construction for B2C and B2B Internet solutions. His experiences include development of several multithreaded CORBA and EJB Internet solutions, including the development of a couple of full Object-to-Relational frameworks using JDBC. He is certified in several Java Technologies and is involved heavily in developing Internet Auction components for the Internet.

Geoff Friesen is heavily involved with Java technology. He has written numerous Java-based articles for JavaWorld ” ranging from internationalization to Java Plug-In to the future of Java ”and an introductory Java book called Java 2 by Example . Furthermore, he's taught university-level and college-level introductory Java courses. Geoff is currently serving as the moderator to the Java Beginner discussion group at ITworld.com .

Brian Keeton is a software engineer at NetVendor, where he develops server-side Java components to support B2B trading using EJB. He is a Sun Certified Java programmer and developer with 10 years of professional software development experience. He spent five years developing object-oriented applications in C++ for the defense industry before transitioning to Java business application development using Swing, CORBA, and EJB.