About the Authors

Chuck Cavaness is a Java Architect at NetVendor Inc, a B2B Supplier Enablement Company specializing in the Electronics, Aerospace, and Automotive industries located in Atlanta, Georgia. His area of expertise spans server-side Java, distributed object computing, and application servers. Currently, he moderates the "Java in the Enterprise" discussion forum at JavaWorld. He has also taught object-oriented courses at the Georgia Institute of Technology and spent several years writing Smalltalk and CORBA software. Chuck earned his degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Chuck is co-author of Special Edition Using Java 2 Standard Edition .

Brian Keeton is a Java Architect at NetVendor Inc. where he develops components to support B2B trading using EJB. He is a Sun Certified Java Developer with over ten years of professional software development experience. He spent five years developing object-oriented applications in C++ for the defense industry before transitioning to distributed application development using CORBA and EJB. Brian earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and is co-author of Special Edition Using Java 2 Standard Edition .