BILL DUDNEY is a Java architect who s been building J2EE applications for five years and distributed computing solutions for 14. He is co-author of Jakarta Pitfalls (Wiley).

STEPHEN ASBURY is co-author of Developing Java™ Enterprise Applications and author of Enterprise Linux at Work (both from Wiley), as well as four other books on development technology.

JOSEPH K. KROZAK is Vice President of Technology Development for Krozak Information Technologies, Inc., a supplier of advanced software solutions to Fortune 500 and mid-market companies.

KEVIN WITTKOPF has been a software architect and developer for more than seventeen years. He focuses on enterprise integration, Web services, messaging, and service-based architecture.