About the Authors

HOLLY CUMMINS has been developing Java applications for a decade. She is an advisory software engineer with IBM, where she has worked on the development of the WebSphere Application Server and on Java performance. She is also a committer on the Apache Aries project and speaks widely at conferences.

TIM WARD is a senior software engineer at Zühlke Engineering. Previously, he was a design and development lead for IBM’s OSGi Applications support in WebSphere. He’s on the OSGi Alliance Core Platform and Enterprise Expert Groups and is a member of the Project Management Committee for the Apache Aries project.