P R E F A C E  

Dain Sundstrom is the Chief Architect of JBossCMP, an implementation of the Enterprise 

Java Beans 2.0 Container Managed Persistence specification. Dain earns a living on the 

sales of the JBossCMP 2.0 documentation and as an independent consultant in Minneapolis, 

MN (USA). 

David Jencks: After studying differential and algebraic geometry at Harvard and 

Berkeley, David spent 16 years studying acoustics by building musical instruments, 

principally harpsichords. Returning to an early interest in computer programming, he wrote 

several component based application frameworks in Delphi before learning java 

programming through writing a rules engine adapter for jboss and much of the jca jdbc 

adapter for the Firebird open source database. He is principal author of several research 

papers in biochemistry. David is based out of Boca Raton, Florida. 

Hiram Chirino is a web application/Java/MQSeries consultant based out of Tampa, 

Florida. He enjoys developing solutions for tough problems and that is why he has been 

spending most of his free time working on the spyderMQ project. The major benefit of 

having a JMS provider like spyderMQ is that you can build more scalable and robust 

distributed applications. 

Jan Bartel is a Principal Consultant with Mort Bay Consulting Australia/UK. Jan 

graduated with an M.A(Pass) degree in Computer Science from Sydney University in 1986. 

After graduating, she worked for a variety of Australian telecommunications companies, 

mainly in the area of designing network management systems. Around 1996, she discovered 

the web and Java and since then hasn t written a line of code in any other language. Her 

recent consulting has involved both client side development using Swing/applets/servlets 

and server side development using Corba/X.500/LDAP/MQSeries applied to a variety of 

projects ranging from operational risk management software to digital interactive tv 

provisioning systems. Of late, she has been collaborating on the tight integration of Jetty 

with JBoss, and appeasing her rampant travel obsession! 

Christoph G. Jung is born 71 06 24 in Quierschied/Saar, Germany. He holds a Diploma 

Degree in Computer Science (Dipl. Inform.) from the University of Saarbr cken, 1996. 

Throughout 1996 1999, Christoph has been a member of the German Research Center for 

Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) and the Graduiertenkolleg Kognitionswissenschaft 

located in Kaiserslautern and Saarbr cken. In 2000, he received a Doctoral Degree in 

AI/Software Engineering (Dr. Ing.) from the University of Saarb cken. Since 1999, Dr. Jung 

is employed as a Software Engineer at infor business solutions AG, Friedrichsthal and 

Karlsruhe, where he shapes the technological basis of a next generation runtime engine for 

Internet Business Applications (IBA). 

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