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Dec. 17, 2004 12:00 AM

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Matt Ackley is senior director of the eBay Developers Program. He supports eBay's vision to be the leading platform for global online commerce, and is chartered with creating a thriving ecosystem between eBay, its community of users, and third-party developers and solution providers. Ackley joined eBay in 2003 as part of eBay's acquisition of FairMarket, which provided technology solutions and services to online marketplaces.

Sudhir Bhojwani

Sudhir Bhojwani is a senior architect working for BEA Technical Solutions Group. He has over eight years of industry experience architecting and designing systems based on component technologies like CORBA and EJBs, and most recently working on SOA principles.

Ari Bixhorn

Ari Bixhorn is the director of Web Services Strategy in the Developer and Platform Division at Microsoft Corp. He is responsible for product planning and technical evangelism for Microsoft's Web services offerings, including "Indigo," the code name for a component of the next version of the Windows operating system, code-named Windows "Longhorn." Bixhorn has spent the past five years at Microsoft, driving product management efforts for the Visual Basic and Visual Studio development systems.

Toufic Boubez

Toufic Boubez is the CTO of Layer 7 Technologies. Prior to joining Layer 7, Toufic was CTO at Saffron Technologies, where he drove the company's distributed machine learning and knowledge management initiative for the US military and government. Prior to Saffron, he was chief architect of IBM's Web services initiatives. He was also IBM's technical representative to the UDDI Web services consortium with Microsoft and Ariba (www.uddi.org) and a co-author of the UDDI API spec.

Brent Carlson

Brent Carlson is vice president of technology and cofounder of LogicLibrary. He is a 17-year veteran of IBM, where he held numerous leadership roles on the "IBM SanFrancisco Project," a consortium of more than 100 companies united by the mission to provide a framework for Java-based application business components. Brent is the co-author of two books and holds 16 software patents, with eight more currently under evaluation.

Dave Chappell

Dave Chappell is vice president and chief technology evangelist for Sonic Software, the leading provider of integration products and services for the real-time enterprise. Dave has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including R&D, code-slinger, sales, support and marketing. He has a strong passion for shaping the future of technology, and enjoys sharing his knowledge and experience with others. Dave is well known for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Message Oriented Middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and evolving standards and Web services. As Director of Engineering for Sonic Software, Chappell led the development effort for SonicMQ, which has grown to become synonymous with enterprise messaging and the Java Message Service (JMS). Dave is noted for authoring the popular O'Reilly books on enterprise messaging and Web services, and serves as technical editor for Web Services Journal.

Dan Clark

Dan is a Microsoft Certified Trainer, Microsoft Certified Solution Developer, and a Microsoft Certified Database Administrator. For the past seven years he has been developing applications and training others how to develop applications using Microsoft technologies. Dan has been developing and training Microsoft's .NET technologies since the early betas. He has recently authored the book "An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming with Visual Basic .NET," published by Apress.

Luc Clement

Luc Clement is director of product marketing, SOA Registry for Systinet. He is also cochair for the UDDI Specification Technical Committee. Formerly Microsoft UDDI Program Manager, Luc is well-known in the UDDI community and has been heavily involved with the UDDI specification for several years.

Glen Daniels

Glen Daniels is manager of standards and consortia at Sonic Software and coauthor of Building Web Services with Java. He has been working with Web services technologies since their inception in the late '90s, and in addition to developing products and helping to found Apache's Axis project, he has been an active participant in standards bodies such as the W3C, and a member of the SOAPBuilders interoperability group.

Rajesh Das

Raj Das is a principal consultant with ESS/Magenic Technologies in Chicago. He spends his working time on all things .NET, with a preference for ASP.NET, Smart Clients, TabletPC, SQL Server, SharePoint Products and Technologies, and BizTalk. Raj has been consulting with Microsoft technologies since 1996 and working with .NET since v1.0 - Beta 2; he is a MCSD.NET.

Don DeVeux

Don DeVeux has over 16 years of experience in designing, developing, and deploying technology solutions. Don has a varied background and he is currently responsible for the successful development and delivery of various technology solutions for Greenbrier & Russel, Inc. in Denver.

Markus Egger

Markus Egger is the President and Chief Software Architect of EPS Software Corp., a custom software development and consulting firm located in Houston, Texas. He specializes in consulting for object-oriented development, Internet development, B2B and Web Services. EPS does most of its development using Microsoft Visual Studio (.NET).

Yakov Fain

Yakov Fain is a member of JDJ's editorial board and works as a Java architect for a major bank in New York City. He wrote the book The Java Tutorial for the Real World, an e-book Java Programming for Kids, Parents and Grandparents, and several chapters for the book Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4 Bible. Yakov holds a Masters Degree in Applied Mathematics. For more information please visit www.smartdataprocessing.com.

Derek Ferguson

Derek Ferguson is a principal consultant for Magenic Technologies, Inc. (http://www.magenic.com), a premier software development and consulting company focused on Microsoft technology. He is also editor-in-chief of the .NET Developer's Journal and a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional for the .NET Compact Framework.

Christopher Ferris

Chris is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM's Emerging Technology group, actively engaged in all aspects of the development of Web Services and e-business standards. He currently chairs the Web Services Interoperability Organization (WS-I) Basic Profile Working Group. He also is an elected member of the OASIS Technical Advisory Board. Prior to joining IBM, Chris served as chair of the W3C Web Services Architecture WG and as Sun Microsystems' representative on the W3C XML Protocols WG, the OASIS ebXML Messaging TC, and the OASIS Security Services TC. Chris has been involved in the architecture, design, and engineering of distributed systems for most of his 25+ year career in IT and has been actively engaged in open standards development for XML and Web services since 1999.

Alistair Farquharson

Alistair Farquharson is the CTO of Digital Evolution, where he spearheads product development and provides thought leadership to enterprise customers implementing Web services. His skills span many industries and include designing and implementing system architectures, as well as spearheading initiatives such as development/ team lead. He is an expert in custom-application development, distributed environments, architecting scalable hardware and software applications and systems, and Web services application development.

Dan Foody

As chief technology officer at Actional, Dan Foody leverages his extensive hands-on experience in enterprise systems integration software toward easing integration through Web services. He is an active participant in the Web services standards community, including WS-I and OASIS, where he spearheads Actional's contributions on the OASIS Management Protocol Technical Committee and its efforts to deliver XML-based Web services management standards. Dan's experience with application integration technologies including middleware, platform and Web services, gives him a broad knowledge of the intricacies of systems such as SAP R/3, DCOM, CORBA, and Java. He is the author of various application integration standards, and contributed significantly to the OMG standard for COM/CORBA interworking. Dan holds both a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University.

Carl Franklin

Carl Franklin has been a figurehead in the VB community since the very early days when he wrote for Visual Basic Programmers Journal. He authored the Q&A column of that magazine as well as many feature articles for VBPJ and other magazines. He has authored two books for John Wiley & Sons on sockets programming in VB, and in 1994 he helped create the very first web site for VB developers, Carl & Gary's VB Home Page. He now teaches hands-on VB .NET classes for his company, Franklins.Net. He has taught developers from Citigroup, Aetna, Fidelity Investments, Fleet Bank, Foxwoods Casino, UTC, Hubbell, Microsoft, Mohegan Sun Casino, Northeast Utilities, to name a few. Carl is co-host of a weekly talk show on his website for .NET programmers called .NET Rocks! Carl is MSDN Regional Director for Connecticut.

Pierre Fricke

Pierre Fricke, D.H. Brown?s vice president of Application and Integration Infrastructure, extends the company's unique technical and strategic analysis into the J2EE, Microsoft .NET, and integration infrastructure space. After completing his M.B.A., Pierre became one of the leading strategists and marketing leaders in IBM focusing on interoperability, integration,WebSphere, Windows NT, UNIX, as well as Linux and open source.

John Gomez

John Gomez, open source editor for .NET Developer's Journal, has over 25 years of software development and architectural experience, and is considered a leader in the design of highly distributed transaction systems. His interests include chaos- and fuzzy-based systems, self-healing and self-reliant systems, and offensive security technologies, as well as artificial intelligence. John started developing software at age 9 and is currently the CTO of Eclipsys Corporation, a worldwide leader in hospital and physician information systems.

Adam Gross

Adam Gross works with product marketing within the sforce group at SalesForce.com, which ensures that some pretty interesting Web services are generally available at sforce.com. He has enjoyed watching the community grow around them, he says. With about 10% of sforce's total traffic being Web services based, it now ranks among the most widely used enterprise Web services in the market.

Girish Juneja

Girish Juneja has more than 15 years' experience in the high technology industry with extensive product management, product strategy, engineering management and technology marketing expertise. He is the co-founder of Sarvega. Prior to assuming his current role and since Sarvega's inception, Girish led the Sarvega engineering & customer services organizations to develop Sarvega's industry-leading core XESOS technology & XML Networking products.

Pradipa Karbhari

Pradipa Karbhari is currently the CTO of Dextrasoft Inc. (a software consultancy services company), a consultant to Halliburton, and the architect and technical lead for Project CPI. Pradipa has been in the Software Industry for over fifteen years.

Tim Kinslow

Tim Kinslow has been Practice Manager for Web-based solutions at Trigent since October 2000, and joined with over 16 years' experience in the IT field. He works directly with clients to understand their business objectives and design software to meet those needs. Tim also keeps busy by facilitating workshops and managing multiple client engagements.

Onno Kluyt

Onno Kluyt is the chairperson of the JCP Program Management Office, Sun Microsystems.

Ashish Larivee

With more than 9 years of experience in the software industry, Ashish Larivee has designed and developed many enterprise applications across a variety of platforms including Microsoft, Lotus Notes / Domino, and the J2EE platform. In 1999, Ms. Larivee joined SilverStream Software, acquired by Novell in July 2002, and has served in various roles in consulting, development and technical marketing. In her current role, she helps define the strategy and product direction across Novell's Web Application Development Products.

Julia Lerman

Julia Lerman is the owner of Julia Lerman, Inc (dba The Data Farm) and has been developing software applications and consulting to businesses since 1984. Julia is the founder and leader of the Vermont .NET users group (www.vtdotnet.org) as well as an INETA (International .NET Association) Committee Chair. She is a contributor to Visual Studio Magazine and MSDNAA, and in her pre-Visual Basic days, FoxPro Advisor. Julia is a Microsoft .NET MVP and an ASPInsider and also shares technical knowledge through her weblog at julialermaninc.com/blog.

Patrick Linskey

Patrick Linskey has been working with Java Data Objects for over 3 years and has been involved in object/relational mapping for 5+ years. As the founder and CTO of SolarMetric, Patrick drives the technical direction of the company. Patrick is a luminary on JDOcentral, a consortium committed to marketing the JDO standard. He has been one of the leaders on the JDO specification team, currently helping to drive the JDO 2.0 specification.

Eve Maler

Eve Maler is an XML standards architect at Sun Microsystems, where she coordinates Sun's involvement with Web services security standards such as SAML and the WS-I Basic Security Profile.

David McCaw

David McCaw has over eight years of experience in helping software development teams improve quality throughout the development process. Over the last three years, he has led the Parasoft Web Services Solutions team, which has developed an industryleading approach for Web services testing. He has implemented Web service quality solutions for development groups in organizations such as Sabre-Holdings, Yahoo! Overture, and McGraw-Hill. McCaw has an extensive background in the areas of Java and Web service reliability, performance, and security. He is involved with OASIS and WS-I, and is a frequent speaker at industry events.

Mike Milinkovich

Mike Milinkovich has held key management positions at Oracle, WebGain, The Object People, and Object Technology International Inc. (which subsequently became a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM), assuming responsibility for development, product management, marketing, strategic planning, finance and business development. Mike earned his MS degree in information and systems sciences and a bachelor of commerce degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada

Granville Miller

Granville Miller has over 15 years of experience in the object-oriented community. He is coauthor of the Advanced Use Case Modeling series and A Practical Guide to Extreme Programming. Granville currently directs strategy for the TogetherSoft line of products.

Eric Newcomer

In the role of Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Eric is responsible for IONA's technology roadmap and the direction of IONA's e-Business Platforms as relates to standards adoption, architecture, and product design. Eric, a member of the XML Protocols and Web Services Architecture working groups at the W3C and IONA's Advisory Committee representative to UDDI.org, is the author of Understanding Web Services (2002, Addison Wesley), co-author of Principles of Transaction Processing (1997, Morgan Kaufmann), author of numerous whitepapers and articles.

Alex Onik

Alex Onik is a Microsoft development and platform advisor for Independent Software Vendors. He has over 12 years of experience as a software engineer developing solutions across Microsoft, Unix, and Mainframe platforms. His focus is on distributed architectures and .NET to J2EE interoperability.

Thom Robbins

Thom Robbins is a senior technology specialist with Microsoft. He is a frequent contributor to various magazines that include .NET, Visual Studio.NET and Web Services Journal. Thom is also a frequent speaker at a variety of events that include VS Live and others. When not writing code and helping customers he spends his time with his wife at their home in New Hampshire.

Peter Rodgers

Peter Rodgers is the founder and CEO of 1060 Research and architect of the 1060 NetKernel XML Application Server. Prior to starting 1060 he established and led Hewlett-Packard's XML research programm and provided strategic consultancy to Hewlett Packard's software businesses. Peter holds a PhD in solid-state quantum mechanics from the University of Nottingham.

Jonathan "Jothy" Rosenberg

Dr. Jothy Rosenberg is a serial entrepreneur and the founder, director, and CEO of Service Integrity. Prior to this venture, Jothy cofounded GeoTrust, the world's second largest certificate authority and a major innovator in enterprise managed security solutions. He is also the author of How Debuggers Work and Understanding Web Services Security (2003; Addison-Wesley). Jothy holds patents on watchpoint debugging mechanisms, content certification and site identity assurance, as well as a pending security compliance monitoring patent.

Keenan Ross

Keenan Ross is the VP of Engineering at Refresh Software. A 20-year veteran of the software industry, he contributes significant expertise in architecture and design of large-scale, distributed, enterprise-class applications.

Arthur Ryman

Arthur Ryman is a senior technical staff member at the IBM Toronto Lab where he is currently working on the XML and Web Services Development Environment, a new tool suite for developing Java, SQL, and XML-based Web Services that support SOAP, WSDL, and UDDI. Previously he worked on VisualAge for Java, specializing in tools for developing servlets and JSPs.

Ajit Sagar

Ajit Sagar is a Senior Technical Archiect with Infosys Technologies, Ltd., a global consulting and IT services company. Ajit has been working with Java since 1997, and has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. During this tenure, he has been a programmer, lead architect, director of engineering, and product manager for companies from 15 to 25,000 people in size. Ajit has served as JDJ's J2EE editor, was the founding editor of XML-Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences. He has published more than 75 articles.

Sekhar Sarukkai

Sekhar Sarukkai is currently a technical architect at Oblix. He was the original founder and CTO of Confluent Software, a leading Web services management company, which was acquired by Oblix in 2004. He holds a PhD in computer science from Indiana University.

Gary Shaffer

Gary R. Shaffer is currently the chief technologist for SAIC's Center for Advanced Information Technology. He has over 16 years of experience developing systems for the U.S. Navy and the Department of Defense working for SAIC.

Michael Stiefel

Michael Stiefel, principal of Reliable Software, Inc. is a consultant on software architecture and development, and the alignment of information technology with business goals. His current work involves training in distributed applications development, and in software best practices, in .NET, C#, Web services, C++, SQL Server, COM, DCOM, and MTS. He advises on IT strategy and planning, including budgeting, hiring, and growth management. Michael is involved with design and implementation of middle-tier and back-end components for transactional n-tier Internet and Intranet applications including Web services. He also is responsible for requirements analysis, project plan development, and design document development. He serves as an Expert Witness for intellectual property cases. Stiefel was a Principal Software Engineer for Prime Computer, developing a mechanical CAD/CAM database system. He also worked for Microsoft assisting their Fortune 500 clients in developing client/server solutions. He is a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the Science, Technology and Society Program and conducts undergraduate seminars on the practice of engineering.

Kieran Taylor

Kieran Taylor is currently the director of product management for Akamai Technologies and focuses strategy and direction for Akamai's emerging technologies, including its J2EE Internet applications delivery services. While at Akamai, Taylor has helped promote the open-standard Edge Side Includes (ESI), a markup language for dynamic content assembly and delivery at the edge, in use today by many companies.

Andre Tost

Andre Tost has been engaged in various development and architecture roles in the IBM Software Group since 1990. He was one of the architects on IBM's SanFrancisco project, which was the first major Java application server environment that hit the market. One of his current assignments is to work as the Technical Manager for the Web Services on WebSphere (WoW) initiative. His main responsibility is to help IBM's strategic ISV business partners to enable their software with web services and the WebSphere software platform. He is currently based in Rochester, Minnesota, USA. Andre is coauthor of the books "Professional EJB Programming", "Professional Java Web Services" and "Beginning Java Web Services" and has published many articles on Java, XML/XSL and Web Services. He has also spoken at conferences like JavaOne, XML One, Web Services One and IBM developerWorks about various software-related topics.

Adam Trachtenberg

Adam Trachtenberg is manager of technical evangelism at eBay, where he preaches the gospel of eBay to developers and businessmen around the globe. He is also the author of two books: Upgrading to PHP 5 and PHP Cookbook, both published by O'Reilly Media. He is a frequent speaker at conferences on PHP, and has written articles for Adobe, c|Net, and the O'Reilly Network.

Sameer Tyagi

Sameer Tyagi has almost four years' experience in n-tier Internet and intranet application development. He currently architects server-side and enterprise Java applications and writes regularly for online and print publications.

Michael Juntao Yuan

Michael Juntao Yuan is a member of JDJ's editorial board. A researcher, developer, author, and advocate for Java and open source technologies, he is a research associate at the Center for Research in Electronic Commerce at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Enterprise J2ME: Developing Mobile Java Applications (Prentice Hall). He won the 2002 Grand Prize in Nextel, Sun, and Motorola's national J2ME application contest. He is architect of the Nokia Series 40/60 Application Blueprint and co-designer of Sun's Mobile Java Developer Certification Exam.

Michael VanMeekeren

Michael Van Meekeren has been a senior developer with IBM Ottawa labs (formerly known as Object Technology International) since 1994, and has played an active role in the development of Envy developer, IBM Smalltalk, VisualAge for Java, and WebSphere Studio Device Developer. Michael is currently the IBM Eclipse Platform UI Team Lead at IBM Ottawa Labs.

Nancy Vodicka

As the XML Product Manager at DataDirect Technologies, Nancy Vodicka is responsible for DataDirect Connect for SQL/XML, a databaseindependent SQL/XML implementation that is currently shipping, and DataDirect XQuery, a database-independent XQuery implementation that is currently in development. Nancy has more than 15 years experience in the software industry working with technologies such as XML, Web services, relational databases, and SQL.

Coach K. Wei

Coach Wei, founder and CTO of Nexaweb, combines enterprise industry experience with education and research experience at MIT to provide the vision for Nexaweb. He founded Nexaweb in 2000 and served as CEO until summer 2003. Before founding Nexaweb, Coach architected and designed enterprise software for managing storage networks at EMC Corporation. As a graduate researcher at MIT, Coach developed software and hardware systems for non-destructive evaluation as well as signal/image processing algorithms. He has published numerous articles on various topics including signal/image processing, composite materials, ultrasonic imaging and software. Coach was a finalist in the 1999 MIT $50K entrepreneurship competition and is the holder of several US Patents. He holds an MS in Information Technology from MIT.

Zachary Wheeler

Zachary Wheeler is a graduate of Howard University, Washington, DC, founder of SDDM Technology, and a Microsoft-Certified Solution Developer.

Michael Juntao Yuan

Mamoon Yunus

Mamoon Yunus, CTO of Forum Systems, was previously a global systems engineer for webMethods, where he developed business integration strategy and architecture for Global 2000 companies. He is an industry-honored CTO in advanced technological solutions for enterprise customers.

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