Senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems
Ed Burns is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. At Sun, Ed leads a team of web experts from across the industry in developing JavaServer™ Faces Technology through the Java Community Process and in open source. His areas of professional interests include web application frameworks, AJAX, reducing complexity, test driven development, requirements gathering, and computer supported collaborative work. Before working on JavaServer Faces, Ed worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat, the Cosmo Create HTML authoring tool, and the web transport layer in the Irix operating system from Silicon Graphics.Ed has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. While at UIUC, Ed took a minor in Germanic Studies and worked for IBM in the co-op program, where he first aquired a fondness for computer history by working on System 370 Office Software.
Ed has presented many times at Sun's JavaOne conference, given a keynote address at the W-JAX conference in Munich, Germany, and also has spoken at numerous Java User Group meetings. Further information and blogs may be found at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/.
Presentations by Ed Burns
De-mystifying JSF
In this 90 minute session, Ed Burns will clear up the fog that sometimessurrounds people's understanding of this Web Application Development
Framework. Ed is well suited to the task, having helped shape the
design of JSF from its inception up to the present day. Upon leaving
this session, the participant will know what JSF is good for, why it is
good for these things, and how to be productive using it."
The past, present, and future of the UI for Distributed Applications
A broad look at the history of network-aware application user interfaces, analyzes the current state of the art for building such UIs, and explores some attributes of the successful UIs of the future."
JSF 2.0 Overview
This session will prep the attendee for other JSF 2.0 related sessions, giving the attendee exclusive insight into what's coming in JSF 2.0. "Ed Burns's Blog
Monday, May 14, 2007
A description of the JSF 2.0 EG Kick-Off meeting where we played an Innovation Game to help discover our priorities.
Friday, May 4, 2007
I show how to use JUnit, combined with the Mozilla Control Program, to write in-depth automated tests of Ajax web applications.