Sandeep Jadav has been in the IT industry for three years and is currently working as a Software Engineer for an IT firm. Sandeep is an MCA qualified professional and is well-versed with Java technologies. He empowers people around him to work and play better, by helping them resolve complex issues with the simplest and most durable solutions.
In addition to reviewing, Sandeep has a history of using his technical skills for more practical purposes—providing technical leadership to past companies. He has an experience in developing on a large scale, n-tier and Web applications, for business and engineering uses.
Sandeep has a large network of friends and makes frequent contributions to a variety of content areas in many online IT communities.
Dale Newfield is a computer scientist trained at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Virginia (ABD). Mr. Newfield has designed, built, and maintained a wide variety of systems in many languages. He has vertical knowledge in fields as disparate as graphics, user interfaces, virtual environments, networking, network technology design, network modeling, distributed and disconnected computation, bioinformatics, along with both web and POS systems requiring tight integration of hardware and software. Having built scalable web applications using both Struts1 and Struts2, his input was helpful in keeping this text focused on teaching best practices.
Michael T Minella has been working with, and teaching about, open source software and agile methodologies for over seven years. He holds degrees from Northern Illinois University and DePaul University in Computer Science and E-Commerce Technologies respectively.
Michael lives just outside Chicago, IL, and works at a major financial exchange there. In addition to his day job, Michael currently teaches at DeVry University, has authored a Refcard on JUnit and EasyMock (http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/junit-and-easymock), and maintains the site http://www.michaelminella.com.
Sharad Sharma is working as a Software Engineer with a reputed MNC. He completed his Bachelors in Technology (B.Tech) from Sikkim Manipal University, Sikkim, and has a passion to learn and teach new technologies. He has successfully completed many projects based on Java/J2EE technology. In spite of having less experience, due to his dedication and hard work, he was able to achieve the top position among all the developers of the organization. This is the first book he has worked upon and wishes to work on many more in future.