Francesco Marchioni is a Sun Certified Enterprise Architect employed by an Italian company based in Rome. He started learning Java in 1997, and since then he has followed the path to the newest Application Program Interfaces released by Sun. He joined the JBoss Community in 2000, when the application server was running the release 2.X.
He has spent many years as a software consultant, where he has overseen many successful software migrations from vendor platforms to open source products such as JBoss AS, fulfilling the tight budget requirements of current times.
Over the last five years, he started authoring technical articles for O'Reilly Media and running an IT portal focused on JBoss products (http://www.mastertheboss.com).
In December 2009, he published the title "JBoss AS 5 Development", which describes how to create and deploy Java Enterprise applications on JBoss AS: http://www.packtpub.com/jboss-as-5-development/book.
In December 2010, he published his second title, "JBoss AS 5 Performance Tuning", which describes how to deliver fast and efficient applications on JBoss AS: http://www.packtpub.com/jboss-5-performance-tuning/book