About the Authors

Kathy Walrath is a senior technical writer on the Swing team at Sun Microsystems. After graduating from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, she wrote extensively about UNIX, Mach, and NEXTSTEP. Since 1993, Kathy has been writing specifications and how-to guides for the Java platform.

Mary Campione used to work as a senior technical writer at Sun Microsystems, where she started writing about the Java platform in 1995. She and Kathy created the original Java Tutorial Web site and co-wrote several books based on it, including the first edition of this book. Mary graduated from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, with a B.S. in Computer Science and has worked as both a technical writer and a programmer.

Alison Huml is a technical writer at Sun Microsystems, where she joined The Java Tutorial team in 1997 and also works with the Security team. Alison received her B.A. in English from the University of California, Berkeley, and is currently pursuing her master's degree in Computer Science at Mills College.

Sharon Zakhour is a senior technical writer who supports the Swing and AWT teams at Sun Microsystems, where she has worked since 1999. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Computer Science and has worked as a programmer, developer support engineer, and technical writer for 18 years .