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Daniel Adelhardt is a software architect at Sun Microsystems in Munich. His technological focus is on software and system architecture in the Java EE field. As for Java EE technologies he primarily concentrates on Enterprise JavaBeans, JavaServer Faces, JMS/JCA, and Java XML & Web Services APIs. Furthermore, he keeps busy with performance analysis and optimization of complex Java EE architectures. As Sun Java Ambassador he is responsible for reporting to the Sun engineering organization.

Adam Bien is a freelance consultant and instructor for Enterprise Java. As an architect and software developer he has successfully contributed to many Java and Java EE projects. He has already developed with JDK 1.0, and he has published numerous books and trade press articles on distributed Java programming. Adam Bien is BEA Technical Director and Expert Group Member of the Java Community Process (JCP). He now focuses on Model Driven Architecture (MDA), EAI component architectures for Java EE and .NET, and works on a couple of publishing activities. More information is available at www.adam-bien.com

Erich Gamma is an IBM Distinguished Engineer. He is Eclipse Java Development Tools Project Lead and member of the Eclipse Project Management Committee. Erich Gamma is counted among the notorious "Gang of Four" known from the book "Design Patterns". With Kent Beck he has developed JUnit, and he has just recently published "Contributing to Eclipse Principles, Patterns, and Plug-ins".

Sebastian Meyen is editor-in-chief of the Java Magazin since its foundation in 1998 and of the Eclipse Magazin which was launched in 2004. He thus has accompanied the Java Community with journalistic activities almost from its beginnings. Before joining Software & Support Media he studied philosophy in Frankfurt. He was from the outset responsible for the conference programs of JAX, W-JAX, Enterprise Architektur Konferenz, and the Eclipse Forum Europe.

Bola Rotibi specialises in analysing the latest software development technologies and market trends, with a particular interest in e-business applications, wireless application development and middleware.
She heads up the Application Lifecycle practice covering the full range of development activities including requirements specification, design, programming, testing and configuration management.
A respected industry expert, Bola has an in-depth understanding of the companies that operate in these markets. Bola also uses this expertise on consulting assignments for clients.
She is regularly sought after to provide advice on emerging technologies such as web services, .NET, MDA and hosted development services, and is often quoted in the trade press.
Bola is a Chartered Engineer and has industry experience spanning the full software development lifecycle across a variety of industry sectors, encompassing network computing and application development.
Prior to joining Ovum, Bola worked for a number of years as a software developer for Reuters, focusing on implementing a new architecture strategy.