What a wild ride – My journey through OpenSource / JSF

Posted by: Lincoln Baxter III on 12/19/2009
It was about one year prior to this article that I wrote “JSF2 is in good hands”, in which I spoke about the upcoming release of JavaServer™ Faces 2, and how the community had changed immensely in the few years I’d been using the tool. There were changes I wanted to make, and started making [...]
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About Lincoln Baxter III

Lincoln Baxter III

Creator of PrettyFaces - Url Rewriting for JSF, PrettyTime - Social-style date & time formatting for Java, and a community contributor to the JSF2 Expert Group; his latest project is ScrumShark, an open-source agile project management tool.

Beginning his career in C, C++ development for hardware signal testing automation, Lincoln soon moved on to Perl, dynamic programming languages, artificial intelligence and, more recently - web application frameworks such as Java Server Faces and Groovy on Grails for financial and small business solutions.

When he is not swimming, running, or playing Ultimate Frisbee, Lincoln is focused on improving the openness of Java, the Java Community Process(JCP), and bringing the J2EE platform to small businesses and freelancers.

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