Lou Miranda is a consultant specializing in J2EE technologies and Web services. He is owner and lead consultant for MirandaCorp.com, Inc., and has worked at major insurance, medical device, and manufacturing corporations. He has also worked through large consulting companies such as PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG Consulting. His Java and WebLogic experience has included architecting membership, payment, production line, and insurance systems, as well as a Web services proof of concept. Other writing assignments have included a stint as a Contributing Editor at PC World magazine, and articles for several programming magazines. He also holds a Masters degree in Molecular Biology. Lou recently started a series of WebLogic training videos on DVD (www.GeekSpeakPress.com).

Joe Zuffoletto is a system architect specializing in application servers and their integration with other host systems. After receiving a computer science degree from Princeton in 1987, he began working with application servers in 1990, when he wrote a number of them for clients in the financial services and technology industries. These servers were based on a C++ framework he developed and enhanced over a five-year span, and they provided serverside execution of business logic, as well as access to embedded and separate relational database systems.
Joe has since left the hard work of writing application servers to others, such as BEA and Sun. He is currently president and co-owner of ZeeWare, Inc. (www.zeeware.com), a systems integration firm focused on building J2EE solutions with WebLogic Server. He lives with his wife in Sausalito, California.