About the Authors
Vamsavardhana Reddy Chillakuru, a.k.a. Vamsi, is an Advisory Software Engineer who has been working with IBM India Private Limited since 1996, and is part of the IBM worldwide Level 3 support team for Apache Geronimo and IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition (WASCE). He is proficient in Java and Java EE technologies, having more than 13 years experience in the IT Industry. His interests include application security in general, and cryptographic security in particular. He has presented sessions Apache conferences on various Apache Geronimo topics, ranging from security to server administration. He has authored many articles within IBM on developerWorks, and has also co-authored an IBM Redbook on Migration from WASCE to WebSphere Application Server (WAS). Considered as a security expert in the Geronimo community, he is actively involved in adding new security features to Geronimo. Associated with the Apache Geronimo project since July 2005, he is a committer on Apache Geronimo and Apache Tuscany projects, and is a member of the Apache Geronimo PMC. He is involved in the standards development for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and is a member of the OASIS (Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards) SCA-Assembly, SCA-Java, and SCA-Policy Technical Committees, and the SCA-J Java EE Subcommittee. He received his B.Stat. (Hons.) and M.Stat. degrees from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India in 1994 and 1996 respectively.
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I thank my wife Sushma and my son Susanth for their support throughout this book project. I thank my manager Sriram Mahalingam and director Kalpana Margabandhu at IBM India Private Limited for facilitating my authorship of this book. I thank my co-author Manu for his cooperation and the grace with which he handled the project. I thank the Apache Geronimo community for their support in my proficiency development with Geronimo. Finally, I am grateful to Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity to author this book and thank Kshipra Singh, Rashmi Phadnis, Rajashree Hamine, Darshana Shinde, and Mayuri Kokate at Packt Publishing for their valuable support time and again. |
Manu T. George is a Staff Software Engineer at IBM India Software Labs in Bangalore, India. He has eight years of experience in the IT field, most of it in Java and J2EE technologies. He is a committer on the Apache Geronimo and Apache OpenEJB projects, and has been a part of the IBM WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Level 3 Support Team for the past three years. He has been with IBM for around five years. Prior to that, he was an employee of Cognizant Technology Solutions India Ltd., and has worked on many services engagements there.
His interests include Application Servers, especially in relation to Scalability, Transaction processing, EIS connectivity, and The Java Virtual Machine. He has also authored articles in IBM developer works, and has co-authored an IBM Redbook on Migration to WebSphere Application Server.
He received his Bachelor of Technology in Applied Electronics from the College of Engineering Thiruvananthapuram in 2001.
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I am very grateful to my employer IBM, manager Sriram Mahalingam, and Director Kalpana Margabandhu for supporting me in writing this book and to Packt Publishing for giving me this opportunity. I would like to thank all the Packt staff that worked with us on this book. I would also like to thank my family, and especially my wife Nitya for the support that she provided and for her patience with me when I was authoring this book. I would like to thank both the Apache Geronimo and Apache OpenEJB communities for the support and help they gave me in understanding their respective projects. I would also like to mention my deep gratitude to David Blevins of Apache OpenEJB whose guidance and help both technical and non technical, was instrumental in helping me learn and understand the internals of OpenEJB as well as EJB technology. Finally, I would like to thank Vamsi, my co-author, for giving me the opportunity to work with him on this book. |