Shawn Bayern (bayern at essentially.net)
Shawn Bayern is a committer for Jakarta Taglibs. He is the
reference-implementation lead for the
JSP Standard Tag Library (JSTL) and the author of two JSP-related
books from Manning
Publications. He works as a research programmer at Yale University.
Hans Bergsten (hans at gefionsoftware.com)
Hans is a member of the Servlet and JSP specification working groups
and writes articles and books about these technologies. He's also the
founder and president of Gefion software, a company that develops
servlet and JSP based products and customer solutions.
Kevin Burton
(burton at relativity.yi.org)
Kevin is an Open Source developer who is involved in many projects
including Jakarta, Apache JetSpeed/Turbine, and jEdit. When he is not
hacking on code he can be found sleeping.
Alexander Day Chaffee
(alex at jguru.com)
Alex runs the Servlets,
EJB and Threads FAQs at jGuru.com. He's also developed lots of
open source code, avaliable at his Purple Technology site. In a past
life, he created and ran Gamelan
for EarthWeb.
James Duncan Davidson (duncan at x180.net - http://x180.net/)
By day, Duncan works in the Open Source Program Office at Sun
Microsystems where he helps various Open Source efforts within Sun
"do the right thing". Previously at Sun he was responsible
for the Servlet API Specifications 2.1 and 2.2 as well as the Java API
for XML Parsing 1.0 and was the original author of Tomcat and Ant. He
was one of the rabble-rousers within Sun that helped make the Jakarta
Project a reality and served as the first Chairman of the Jakarta PMC.
Jeff Dever (jsdever at apache.org)
Jeff is currently the release manager for the
HttpClient 2.0 release.
He is a contractor for the firm Procom who is currently
part of a managed service agreement to NortelNetworks
and finishing his Computer Science degree at
Carleton University. Life is good here in
Ottawa, Canada, with hundreds of kilometers of biking trails and skating on the beautiful
Rideau Canal
(for a few weeks a year anyway).
Peter Donald (peter at apache.org)
Peter is an avid java developer who is active in the
Avalon and
Ant projects.
In his spare time he developes a distributed virtual environment
(ie military simulator or 3D game) using java technologies.
Danno Ferrin (shemnon at yahoo.com)
Danno has been programming in Java since Summer 96. Danno wrote a JSP
engine on his own and released it the very same day Jakarta was
announced at JavaOne. Since then, he decided to join the Jakarta
project in a spirit of co-operation over competition.
Simeon H.K. Fitch (simeon.fitch at mseedsoft.com)
Simeon is owner of Mustard Seed Software, which specializes in developing
distributed applications and user interfaces for the science, engineering,
and research oriented clients. He is the lead architect and developer for
Antidote, the GUI for Ant.
Pier Fumagalli (pier at betaversion.org)
Pier "posh spice" Fumagalli got involved with the Apache JServ project a few
years ago, and since then noone has been able to get rid of him (although
many tried). He spends most of his time debating with his cat about performance
of Java code on Mac OS/X, especially when JNI is involved. Lately he's spending
more and more time on Apache 2.0 and APR, because segfaults are way more fun than
NullPointerExceptions...
Santiago Gala (sgala at hisitech.com or sgala at apache.org)
Santiago owns High Sierra Technology.
Works in a problem stated by his daughter Julia:
"Dad, you give the programs for free, how do you make the money?"
Free Software user after finding emacs in a tape, back in 91,
recently discovered the pleasure to make it happen :-).
Code contributor to Jetspeed, and noise contributor
elsewhere.
Jason Hunter (jh at servlets.com)
Jason is author of "Java Servlet Programming" (O'Reilly) and publisher
of http://www.servlets.com/.
He works at CollabNet.
Petr Jiricka (petr.jiricka at netbeans.com)
Petr is an engineer with the development tools group at Sun
Microsystems. He is responsible for the support of JSPs and servlets in
Forte for Java / NetBeans tools suite and their integration with Tomcat.
Anders Kristensen (akristensen at dynamicsoft.com)
Anders takes a keen interest in log4j and all things Java, OO, and
XML. He is currently specification lead for JSR 116, the SIP Servlet
expert group.
Arnout J. Kuiper (ajkuiper at planet.nl)
Arnout J. Kuiper is a Java Architect with the Sun Java Center at Sun
Microsystems. His main focus is web-related technologies on the Java
platform (J2EE, XML, ...).
Berin Loritsch (bloritsch at apache.org)
Berin is a senior developer at Information Planning & Management
Services, Inc. (IPMS, Inc.).
He is currently the Release Manager for the
Avalon project. He is
also heavily involved in the
Cocoon 2 project. He has
contributed to the architecture, design, and documentation to both of
those projects. He is also the architect of Avalon Excalibur's pooling
code.
Ramesh Mandava
(rmandava at talentportal.com)
Ramesh.Mandava is a team member of the JSP and Servlet group at Sun
Microsystems. He is presently responsible to make sure that Jakarta
is a high quality product.
Vincent Massol (vmassol at apache.org)
Vincent works for OCTO Technology, an
Information System Architecture Consulting company providing expert
consultants in new technologies. He is the founder of the
Jakarta Cactus project. He is
an open source fan and agile methodology addict.
Stefano Mazzocchi (stefano at apache.org)
Stefano is addicted to software design, Java programming and
open development. In the last 4 years, he has contributed way too much
time to Apache, expecially on JServ, JMeter, Avalon, JAMES, Ant, Cocoon
and helping to bring more projects into Apache-land, such as FOP, Batik,
POI and Xindice. The problem is that he's too picky to be satisfied :-)
Glenn McAllister (glenn at somanetworks.com)
Glenn McAllister is a software developer at SOMA Networks, was formerly
the same at IBM (plus tech writer plus build guy), and does some writing
on the side for the VADD Technical Journal. He is a semi-active
developer on Ant.
Dan Milstein (danmil at shore.net)
Dan works as an independent consultant in the Boston area. This is his
first effort in the Open Source world. He's working on the Tomcat
project, and focusing on Tomcat - Web Server connectors.
Rajiv Mordani (mode at chinet.com)
Works on the XML parser reference implementation team at Sun and the
Jakarta Project.
Tim O'Brien (tobrien at apache.org)
Ignacio J. Ortega (nacho at siapi.es)
Ignacio "Nacho" Ortega, he is mainly responsible of any bug you can found
inside JDBCRealm, and the Spanish Translation of Tomcat 3.X and 4.0 (soon),
and many bug fixes.
Harish Prabhandham (harishp at onebox.com)
Harish is an engineer with the J2EE team at Sun, primarily responsible
for implementing security in the J2EE Reference Implementation
(RI). He integrated various technologies including servlet/JSP
implementations from Tomcat into the J2EE RI. These days, he hacks PHP
code during the day.
Daniel Rall (dlr at finemaltcoding.com)
Daniel is a software engineer at CollabNet, where he works
primarily on SourceCast,
including integration of various
Tigris projects such
Eyebrowse and
Scarab. He is an active
developer of Turbine and
its sub-projects, a committer on
Velocity and various
Commons sandbox
packages, and a contributor to other open source projects.
Jean-Luc Rochat (jnix at cybercable.fr)
Amy Roh (amyroh at sun.com)
Amy Roh is a committer for Tomcat. She works for the Servlet
and JSP reference implementation team at Sun.
Marc Saegesser (marc.saegesser at apropos.com)
Marc has been a software developer for more than 11 years working on
projects ranging from environmental controls to business applications.
He currently works on Web based call center applications for Apropos
Technology. He is also an active private pilot.
Daniel Savarese (dfs at savarese.org)
Daniel Savarese is co-author of How to Build a Beowulf and a featured
columnist for Java Pro magazine. Among other things, he has been the
founder of ORO, Inc., a senior scientist at Caltech's Center for
Advanced Computing Research, and vice president of software development
at WebOS, Inc.
Gal Shachor (shachor at il.ibm.com)
Gal Shachor is a research staff member at IBM. He wrote his first
Servlet container (ServletExpress) at the beginning of 1997. Later on
ServletExpress (and Gal) merged into WebSphere, and Gal participated
in the development of WebSphere 1, 2 and 3.
Bojan Smojver (bojan at rexursive.com)
Bojan Smojver is the founder of
Rexursive. His background is in
hardware, Windows NT/Unix administration and C/Java programming. These days
he's primarily focused on Linux based software and hosting solutions.
Jon S. Stevens (jon at collab.net)
Jon is a Co-Founder of Clear Ink
Corp and left to work on Scarab a next generation Open
Source Java Servlet based Issue/Bug tracking system for CollabNet. He was an active developer
of the Apache JServ Servlet
Engine for the Apache Web Server and Co-Author of the Element Construction Set as
well as the web application framework, Turbine.
You can read about Jon's life and views in his blog.
Michael Stover (mstover1 at apache.org)
Mike is a committer and release manager for the Jakarta JMeter project, a stress-test and functional test application for client/server applications, particularly for web apps.
Bip Thelin (bip at apache.org)
Bip Thelin has been a system developer at Razorfish
for the last 2.5 years. He is an active developer on the Tomcat project
where he have contributed to the JDBCSession Store, JDBCRealm
and is also responsible for the SSI and Clustering package.
James Todd (jwtodd at pacbell.net)
James has developed real time customer oriented apps for roughly 10
years the last 5 of which have predominately been fully integrated,
front and back, extraNet implementations which have been based on
Apache, Java and Tcl.
Magesh Umasankar (umagesh at apache.org)
Magesh is a lead software developer at
Manugistics, where
he is responsible for some of the Revenue Optimization
solutions.
Anil Vijendran (akv at eng.sun.com)
Anil Vijendran is the principal developer of the JSP engine in
Tomcat. He's done some pretty scary things in his past life --
implementing the CORBA IDL to C++ 2.0 mapping, skydiving, IDL to Java
compilers, Object Databases (SIGSEV, you da man!) for C++, Java ORB
and EJB runtime environments -- in that order.
Keith Wannamaker (keith at wannamaker.org)
Keith Wannamaker is an independent software developer specializing
in WebDAV and Apache.
