About the Editors

Dr. R. G. G. “RICK” CATTELL is a distinguished engineer in Java platform software at Sun Microsystems, and a founding member of the Java Platform Group that produced J2EE. He has worked for 17 years at Sun Microsystems in senior roles, and for 10 years before that in research at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and Carnegie-Mellon University. The author of more than 50 technical papers and five books, Cattell has worked with object technology and database systems since 1980. He is co-creator of JDBC, and was responsible for forming Sun's Database Engineering Group, whose performance tuning helped to make Sun a leading database server provider. He led the Cypress database management system effort at Xerox PARC, was a founder of SQL Access, and was founder and chair of the Object Database Management Group (ODMG). He authored the world's first monograph on object data management, and has received the Association for Computing Machinery Outstanding Dissertation Award.

Jim Inscore manages technical publications for the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition, in the Java Platform Software Group of Sun Microsystems. His roles include overseeing developer documentation, such as the J2EE Tutorial and J2EE Blueprints, providing developer content for the java.sun.com/j2ee Web site, and serving as technical editor on the Java Series, Enterprise Edition, from Addison-Wesley. Inscore has been involved with object-oriented and enterprise-related technologies for more than 15 years, working with developer documentation for organizations that include Oracle, Ingres, NeXT, Kaleida, and Macromedia. Prior to that, he spent 10 years writing marketing communications materials for the technical marketplace.