Session Descriptions

Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs
Christian Schalk is a Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs and technologies. He is currently engaging the international Web development community with Google's new OpenSocial API. Before joining Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group. Chris also co-authored the book: "JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference" published through McGraw-Hill-Osborne. Chris was also one of the original members of the Open Ajax alliance and helped Oracle and later Google join the alliance. Chris has spoken on Web, Java and Ajax development at numerous Oracle, Java and Ajax conferences, as well as Google related events including Google Developer Day and recently at Google IO.

Committer and PMC member of Apache MyFaces
Cagatay Civici is an Apache MyFaces commiter and PMC member. He is also the author of several open source JSF libraries like JSF ChartCreator, AcegiJSF, FacesTrace and YUI4JSF. In addition he is involved in "The Definitive Guide to Apache MyFaces and Facelets" book as a co-author. Cagatay is currently working as an IT consultant for Prime Technology Consulting in Turkey.

Independent software consultant, author, and open source advocate
Dan Allen is an independent software consultant, author, and open source advocate. After graduating from Cornell University with a degree in Materials Science and Engineering in 2000, Dan became captivated by the world of free and open source software, which is how he got his start in software development. He soon discovered the combination of Linux and the Java EE platform to be the ideal blend on which to build his professional career. In his search for a robust Web framework, Dan happened upon JBoss Seam, which was quickly granted this most coveted spot in his development toolbox. Excited about Seam, Dan decided to share his thoughts with the world. He is now the author of Seam in Action, published by Manning Publications, a project which he picked up immediately after completing his three-part series on Seam for IBM developerWorks. Dan continues to write articles on Seam and related technologies such as JSF, JPA, and Hibernate. Dan is a committer on the Seam project, an active participant in the Seam community, and a Java blogger. You can keep up with Dan's development experiences by subscribing to his blog at http://mojavelinux.com

Self-employed consultant/developer
Providing solutions to private, education, and government entities since 1999. He has also been a teacher and speaker since the early 90s, teaching development for 8 years. His business is currently emphasized on Java, Groovy, Grails, EJB3, and the JBoss Seam web framework. Daniel Hinojosa is also co-founder of the Albuquerque Java User's Group and is currently failing overcoming his addiction of NFJS conferences.

JSF evangelist and Senior Engineer with Intuit
At Intuit, David has focused on writing secure JSF applications for the
Internet banking industry. An electrical engineer by trade, David got
hooked on developing dynamic Web applications in the days of NCSA
Mosaic and hasn't looked back since. He has written Web applications
professionally in a variety of languages, including C, perl, ksh,
ColdFusion, Java, and a domain-specific language built with lex and
yacc. He has tried to forget everything except JSF. David has
presented at ApacheCon and OWASP conferences as well as local user
groups, and is the author of one of the first books on Web
development, Running a Perfect Web Site (Que, 1995).

David holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Kansas and a patent on a method of organizing
hierachical data in a relational database. He lives in Atlanta with
the wife of his youth and helps homeschool their five children. In his
copious spare time, David teaches classes through learnjsf.com and
works on RememberOneAnother.com, a prayer organizer and church
networking Web site built with JSF, Spring, and Hibernate.

Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces and the Google Web Toolkit.

A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all-time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.

David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and he's currently helping to define the next version of JSF on the JSF 2.0 EG.

Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to Shale.

A regular on the NFJS tour, David also speaks at other conferences such as TheServerSide Symposium, JavaOne and JavaPolis. David has taught at Java University and was twice voted a JavaOne rock star, for presentations in 2005 and 2007.

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/.

A Lead developer at JBoss, a division of Red Hat.
After graduating from Supelec (French "Grande Ecole"), Emmanuel has spent a few years in the retail industry where he started to be involved in the ORM space. He joined the Hibernate team 4 years ago. Emmanuel is the lead developer of Hibernate Annotations and Hibernate EntityManager, two key projects on top of Hibernate core implementing the Java Persistence(tm) specification, as well as Hibernate Search and Validator. Emmanuel is a member of the EJB 3.0 expert group and the spec lead of JSR 303: Bean Validation. He is a regular speaker at various conferences and JUGs, including JavaOne, JBoss World and JavaPolis and the co-author of Hibernate Search in Action from Manning.

JSF software developer, consultant, and Java instructor
An experienced software developer, consultant, and instructor specializing in Enterprise Java development. With more than ten years in the Web design industry and five as a professional programmer, Ian has gained proficiency in the areas of Web user interface design and Java application development. Ian holds a Bachelor of Humanities degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and certificates in Enterprise Java Development and Web Design from Algonquin College, also in Ottawa.

As president of Tarantula Consulting Inc., Ian occupies the roles of senior developer and product manager. In May of 2006, Tarantula successfully launched JSFToolbox, a new line of Java developer tools for the Dreamweaver platform targeting JavaServer Faces UI design. The extension has been downloaded extensively and Tarantula's international customer base is growing steadily. The company has subsequently released a line of related products to support JSF development in Dreamweaver using Facelets, Tomahawk and Trinidad.

When Ian isn't working on products, consulting, or teaching Java courses, he plays flamenco guitar and enjoys cross-country trips on his Harley.

A seasoned professional with more than 20 years in the Java Market
As the Java Product Manager at Infragistics, Jim manages and oversees all aspects of the company's Java strategy and the NetAdvantage for JSF product. As part of his responsibilities, Jim also works with companies to help them employ JSF as part of theirdevelopment infrastructure. Prior to joining Infragistics, Jim spent many years as a curriculum developer mastering technology and related tools to a degree not typical of most programmers for LearnQuest. He started his career with Chubb Institute as a Java programmer. Jim holds a BA in Business Administration and Computer Science from Rutgers University

Senior Java Developer for Sun Microsystems
Jason Lee is a Senior Java Developer for Sun Microsystems working on the GlassFish Administration Console, and is a member of the JSF 2.0 (JSR 314) Expert Group. Jason has extensive experience working with web-based technologies such as JavaServer Faces and Ajax, as well as enterprise technologies based on the GlassFish platform. He is currently the main developer of Mojarra Scales, working to create a set of high quality JSF components wrapping libraries such as the Yahoo! User Interface Library, as well as bring Facelets compatibility to JSFTemplating.

Jason has been writing software professionally since 1997 in a wide variety of languages and environments, including Java, PHP, C/C++, and Delphi on both Linux/Unix and Windows. You can read more about what Jason's working on at his blog at http://blogs.steeplesoft.com

Apart from work, he is currently serving as the president of the Oklahoma City Java Users Group, where he is an active member and presenter. More importantly, Jason is married to a beautiful woman and has two sons who, thankfully, look like their mother.

Lead of the Spring Faces Project
Jeremy Grelle is a senior software engineer with SpringSource and the technical lead of the Spring Faces project which provides first-class integration between Spring and Java Server Faces. He is a software artisan with extensive experience in combining server-side Java with the latest web browser technologies to deliver a rich and usable experience for the end user on the web. He has worked heavily with JSF since its initial release and is a member of the JSR-314 Expert Group for JSF 2.0.

Prior to joining SpringSource, Jeremy spent several years crafting large-scale enterprise web applications for the giants of the telecommunications industry. He was a leader in utilizing Spring, JSF, and the latest Ajax techniques to solve a wide variety of problems ranging from inventory management, to low-level network device monitoring, to providing more efficient integration with legacy mainframe systems. He began his career developing e-commerce systems at several web startups where he first became fascinated with bending web browsers to his will and hasn't turned back since.

Lead of Spring Web and Creator of Spring Web Flow
Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring. He is best known in the Spring community for creating Spring Web Flow. At SpringSource, Keith is the lead of the Web Products Team. His team, based in Melbourne, Florida, sustains the development of Spring Web MVC and Web Flow and their associated integrations, and is also responsible for future innovations in the domain of web frameworks.

Since the first Spring Experience in 2005, Keith, with Jay Zimmerman of NoFluffJustStuff Software Symposiums, has served as director of the popular conference series.

Keith is also the principal architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical training on Spring to over 3000 students worldwide.

Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, and retail. He is particularly adept at translating business requirements into technical solutions.

Keith's blog can be found at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/keithd

Editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action
Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Committer and PMC member of Apache MyFaces, Trinidad and Tobago
Martin Marinschek is a Committer and PMC member of Apache MyFaces,
Trinidad and Tobago, as well as member of the expert
groups for JSF 2.0, JSF Metadata, the JSF portlet bridge and WebBeans.
As a consultant of IRIAN he has successfully aided in developing
web-applications for customers in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and
the US. He lectures web- and software-development at universities in
Vienna and writes books on JSF (JSF@Work, Pro Apache MyFaces) GWT
(Google Webtoolkit) and Rails, and articles for the german Java
magazine. At national and international conferences (JavaOne,
Javapolis, JAX, W-JAX, Webinale, ApacheCon US and Europe) he presents
on JSF, MyFaces, AJAX and the highly dynamic and interactive web of
the future.

http://www.irian.at

Software developer at Oracle
Matthias Wessendorf is a software developer at Oracle. He currently works on ADF Faces, which is an Ajax-based JSF component suite. Matthias also contributes to the OpenSource community, mainly Apache MyFaces and Apache Trinidad. Before joining Oracle, he worked as a CMS-Developer at pironet, where he was building a next-generation CMS, using UI technologies like XUL and Ajax.

Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel
Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel. He has been helping customers jump-start their RIA development as well as providing mentoring, consulting, and training. Max is a recognized subject matter expert in the JSF developer community. He has provided JSF/RichFaces training for the past three years, presented at many conferences, and written several published articles on JSF-related topics. Max also leads Exadel's RIA strategy and writes about RIA technologies in his blog, http://mkblog.exadel.com. He is an author of "Practical RichFaces" book (Apress). Max holds a BS in computer science from the University of California, Davis.

Author, software developer, and open source contributor
Michael Yuan is an author, software developer, and open source contributor. He currently works at eZee inc. developing a large scale mobile marketing system based on the Seam framework. He contributes code to the Seam project and writes about Seam in his blog
www.michaelyuan.com/blog
Prior to eZee, Michael was a technical product manager at the JBoss division of Red Hat Inc. Michael has published four books on software development including the first edition of "JBoss Seam", "Enterprise J2ME" and "Nokia Smartphone Hacks".

Senior Software Architect for Liferay, Inc
Neil Griffin represents Liferay on the JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) expert group and has 15 years of professional experience in software engineering. As a Liferay project committer, Neil is responsible for interfacing with ICEsoft in order to ensure that ICEfaces integrates properly within Liferay Portal. Neil is the co-founder of the PortletFaces project which makes JSF portlet development easier. He has authored training classes for Liferay and ICEsoft, and has served as a consultant for clients implementing JSF and ICEfaces portlets.

Principal Software Engineer for Oracle
Scott O'Bryan is a Principal Software Engineer for Oracle and has twelve years of industry development experience. He's been working on the Oracle ADF Faces Renderkit for around four years and prior to his work with JSF, he had over six years of experience architecting enterprise portal systems and designing portlet-based software applications. His unique background makes him an expert on portlet-based JSF Architectures. Scott is currently the project lead for the Apache Myfaces Portlet Bridge, in addition to being active in the Apache MyFaces Community. He is an active member of the JSR-301 Expert Group and has been instrumental in helping establish guidelines for the use of JSF and AJAX in a portlet environment.

JBoss Core Developer with over 20 years of industry experience
Stan Silvert is a JBoss Core Developer with over 20 years of industry experience. He is the project lead on the JSFUnit open source project.

JSFUnit is an integration test framework for JSF applications. It is designed to allow complete integration testing and debugging of JSF applications and JSF AJAX components. Stan is also responsible for JavaServer Faces and Seam integration on the JBoss Application Server.

He has represented JBoss/Red Hat on several JSF-related JSRs in the Java Community Process. These include the JSF core specification and the JSF Portlet Bridge specification.

Senior Architect at ICEsoft
Ted Goddard is a Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and is the technical lead for the JavaServer Faces Ajax framework, ICEfaces. Following a PhD in Mathematics from Emory University that answered open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, he proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and web-based collaborative technologies. He has held positions at Sun Microsystems, AudeSi Technologies, and Wind River Systems, and currently particpates in the Servlet and JavaServer Faces expert groups.