About the reviewers
David O'Meara is an experienced developer, architect, and technical manager with over 10 years based in Australia and the USA. Primarily focusing on the Java language and related technologies, his experience is mainly based on web, distributed, and integration projects.
He has previously worked on many business domains, but currently devotes the bulk of his time in the maintenance and programming of highly adaptive, semi-autonomous, self-aware bipedal hominids, also known as child raising. The rest of his spare time is often spent answering questions on the JavaRanch, moderating on DZone, or working on open source projects.
Michael Besosa is a Principal Architect at Pearson VUE, Inc.
Karl Espe and Alok Gupta are Web Engineering Leads at Pearson VUE, Inc.
Arun Lakkakula and Giridhar Reddy are Senior Web Software Developers at Pearson VUE, Inc.
David Gordhamer is a Web Software Developer at Pearson VUE, Inc.
Chad LaVigne, Vladan Pulec, Raghu Ramakrishnan, and Dan Syrstad are web development consultants based in Minnesota.
This book is dedicated to:
- My wife Devi, every day with you is a joy and a blessing
- My children, Ashwin and Anita, you are the lights of my world
- My parents, Nagarathnam and Shanmugam, who taught me all that is important
This book would not have been possible without your love and understanding.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart.