Speakers
Our presenters are not simply vendor representatives -- they are industry recognized subject matter experts. They are published authors. They are the people writing the software you use on a daily basis.
Andy Bosch - Independent consultant and trainer for JSF and Portlet technologies.
He wrote the first German book on JavaServer Faces and just lately published "Portlets and JSF".
Andy is responsible for the website www.jsf-forum.de, a
German portal for JSF related topics. He regularly publishes articles in Java magazines and teaches web programming at various conferences.
Andy is responsible for the website www.jsf-forum.de, a
German portal for JSF related topics. He regularly publishes articles in Java magazines and teaches web programming at various conferences.
Andy Schwartz - Consulting Member of Technical Staff for Oracle, JSR-314 representative
Andy Schwartz is a software engineer at Oracle, where he has spent the last 16 years designing and developing user interface frameworks. The latest of these is ADF Faces, a JSF-based, AJAX-enabled framework and component set. Andy also serves as Oracle's representative to the JSR-314 (JSF 2.0) expert group. Andy blogs about JSF and ADF Faces at http://andyschwartz.wordpress.com/.
Andy has presented at AjaxWorld, JavaOne, W-JAX and Devoxx on JSF-related topics.
Andy has presented at AjaxWorld, JavaOne, W-JAX and Devoxx on JSF-related topics.
Cagatay Civici - PrimeFaces Lead, Apache MyFaces PMC, Atmosphere Committer
Cagatay Civici is the founder and project lead of popular PrimeFaces Component Suite, PMC member of open source JSF implementation Apache MyFaces and committer of Atmosphere Ajax Push/Comet Framework. He's a recognized speaker in international conferences and many local events. He is also an author and technical reviewer of several books regarding web application development with Java and JSF. Cagatay is currently working as a freelancer consultant and instructor in the UK.
Dan Allen - Senior Software Engineer - JBoss by Red Hat, Author, Open Source Advocate
Dan Allen is a member of the Seam and Web Beans project teams at JBoss by Red Hat, author of Seam in Action and a frequent speaker at major industry conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, TSSJS, Jazoon and JSFOne. Dan is known for his passionate work, with nearly a decade of development experience using technologies that include Java frameworks (Seam, JSF, EJB3, Hibernate, Spring, Struts), testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG), JavaScript and DOM scripting, CSS and page layouts, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, and many others.
Quickly after graduating from college, Dan became captivated by the world of free and open source software (FOSS). His involvment in FOSS helped him transition into the software development industry. He soon discovered the combination of Linux and the Java EE platform to be the ideal blend on which to build his professional career. In his search for a robust Web framework, Dan discovered JBoss Seam, which was quickly granted this most coveted spot in his development toolbox. The rest, as they say, is history. Dan is also a dedicated open source and Linux advocate and blogs about his experiences regularly. You can keep up with his discoveries by subscribing to his blog at http://mojavelinux.com.
Quickly after graduating from college, Dan became captivated by the world of free and open source software (FOSS). His involvment in FOSS helped him transition into the software development industry. He soon discovered the combination of Linux and the Java EE platform to be the ideal blend on which to build his professional career. In his search for a robust Web framework, Dan discovered JBoss Seam, which was quickly granted this most coveted spot in his development toolbox. The rest, as they say, is history. Dan is also a dedicated open source and Linux advocate and blogs about his experiences regularly. You can keep up with his discoveries by subscribing to his blog at http://mojavelinux.com.
David Geary - Author of Graphic Java, co-author of Core JSF, member of the JSF Expert Group
David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java Swing was the best-selling Swing book, and is one of the best-selling Java books of all-time, and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and David is currently on the JSF 2 Expert Group, helping to vastly improve JSF in version 2.
Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and he has written questions for two of Sun's Certification Exams: Web Developer Certification and JavaServer Faces Certification. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to the Apache Shale project.
David has spoken at more than 100 NFJS symposiums since 2003, and he also speaks at other conferences such as TheServerSide Java Symposium, JavaOne, JavaPolis, and JAOO. David has taught at Java University for the past three years, and is a three-time JavaOne rock star.
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java Swing was the best-selling Swing book, and is one of the best-selling Java books of all-time, and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and David is currently on the JSF 2 Expert Group, helping to vastly improve JSF in version 2.
Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and he has written questions for two of Sun's Certification Exams: Web Developer Certification and JavaServer Faces Certification. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to the Apache Shale project.
David has spoken at more than 100 NFJS symposiums since 2003, and he also speaks at other conferences such as TheServerSide Java Symposium, JavaOne, JavaPolis, and JAOO. David has taught at Java University for the past three years, and is a three-time JavaOne rock star.
Ed Burns - Spec Lead for JSF; author of JSF 2.0: The Complete Reference
Ed Burns is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. At Sun, Ed leads a team of web experts from across the industry in developing JavaServer™ Faces Technology through the Java Community Process and in open source. His areas of professional interests include web application frameworks, AJAX, reducing complexity, test driven development, requirements gathering, and computer supported collaborative work. Before working on JavaServer Faces, Ed worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat, the Cosmo Create HTML authoring tool, and the web transport layer in the Irix operating system from Silicon Graphics.
Ed has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. While at UIUC, Ed took a minor in Germanic Studies and worked for IBM in the co-op program, where he first aquired a fondness for computer history by working on System 370 Office Software.
Ed has presented many times at Sun's JavaOne conference, given a keynote address at the W-JAX conference in Munich, Germany, and also has spoken at numerous Java User Group meetings. Further information and blogs may be found at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/.
Ed has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. While at UIUC, Ed took a minor in Germanic Studies and worked for IBM in the co-op program, where he first aquired a fondness for computer history by working on System 370 Office Software.
Ed has presented many times at Sun's JavaOne conference, given a keynote address at the W-JAX conference in Munich, Germany, and also has spoken at numerous Java User Group meetings. Further information and blogs may be found at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/.
Ian Hlavats - JSF software developer, consultant, and Java instructor
An experienced software developer, consultant, and instructor specializing in Enterprise Java development. With more than ten years in the Web design industry and five as a professional programmer, Ian has gained proficiency in the areas of Web user interface design and Java application development. Ian holds a Bachelor of Humanities degree from Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and certificates in Enterprise Java Development and Web Design from Algonquin College, also in Ottawa.
As president of Tarantula Consulting Inc., Ian occupies the roles of senior developer and product manager. In May of 2006, Tarantula successfully launched JSFToolbox, a new line of Java developer tools for the Dreamweaver platform targeting JavaServer Faces UI design. The extension has been downloaded extensively and Tarantula's international customer base is growing steadily. The company has subsequently released a line of related products to support JSF development in Dreamweaver using Facelets, Tomahawk and Trinidad.
When Ian isn't working on products, consulting, or teaching Java courses, he plays flamenco guitar and enjoys cross-country trips on his Harley.
As president of Tarantula Consulting Inc., Ian occupies the roles of senior developer and product manager. In May of 2006, Tarantula successfully launched JSFToolbox, a new line of Java developer tools for the Dreamweaver platform targeting JavaServer Faces UI design. The extension has been downloaded extensively and Tarantula's international customer base is growing steadily. The company has subsequently released a line of related products to support JSF development in Dreamweaver using Facelets, Tomahawk and Trinidad.
When Ian isn't working on products, consulting, or teaching Java courses, he plays flamenco guitar and enjoys cross-country trips on his Harley.
Jay Balunas - A core developer at JBoss, and the RichFaces project lead.
Jay has been architecting and developing enterprise applications for over ten years, specializing in web tier frameworks, UI design, and integration. He is now focused on AJAX, JSF and other client side technologies. When possible Jay assists with other projects such as Seam, JBoss Tools, and Weld. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Union College. Jay blogs about RichFaces, JSF, JBoss and other topics at http://in.relation.to/Bloggers/Jay
Keith Donald - SpringSource Principal & Founding Partner
Keith Donald is a principal and founding partner at SpringSource, the company behind Spring and a division of VMware. At SpringSource, Keith is a full-time member of the Spring development team focusing on web application development productivity. He is also the architect behind SpringSource's state-of-the-art training curriculum, which has provided practical Spring training to over 10,000 students worldwide.
Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Over his career, Keith, an experienced enterprise software developer and mentor, has built business applications for customers spanning a diverse set of industries including banking, network management, information assurance, education, retail, and healthcare. He is particularly skilled at translating business requirements into technical solutions.
Kito Mann - Editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JSF in Action
Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.
Lincoln Baxter III - Founder of OcpSoft
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.
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.
Martin Marinschek - Committer and PMC member of Apache MyFaces, Trinidad and Tobago
Martin Marinschek is a Committer and PMC member of Apache MyFaces,
Trinidad and Tobago, as well as member of the expert
groups for JSF 2.0, JSF Metadata, the JSF portlet bridge and WebBeans.
As a consultant of IRIAN he has successfully aided in developing
web-applications for customers in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and
the US. He lectures web- and software-development at universities in
Vienna and writes books on JSF (JSF@Work, Pro Apache MyFaces) GWT
(Google Webtoolkit) and Rails, and articles for the german Java
magazine. At national and international conferences (JavaOne,
Javapolis, JAX, W-JAX, Webinale, ApacheCon US and Europe) he presents
on JSF, MyFaces, AJAX and the highly dynamic and interactive web of
the future.
http://www.irian.at
Trinidad and Tobago, as well as member of the expert
groups for JSF 2.0, JSF Metadata, the JSF portlet bridge and WebBeans.
As a consultant of IRIAN he has successfully aided in developing
web-applications for customers in Austria, Germany, Switzerland and
the US. He lectures web- and software-development at universities in
Vienna and writes books on JSF (JSF@Work, Pro Apache MyFaces) GWT
(Google Webtoolkit) and Rails, and articles for the german Java
magazine. At national and international conferences (JavaOne,
Javapolis, JAX, W-JAX, Webinale, ApacheCon US and Europe) he presents
on JSF, MyFaces, AJAX and the highly dynamic and interactive web of
the future.
http://www.irian.at
Max Katz - Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel
Max Katz is a Senior Systems Engineer at Exadel. He has been helping customers jump-start their RIA development as well as providing mentoring, consulting, and training. Max is a recognized subject matter expert in the JSF developer community. He has provided JSF/RichFaces training for the past three years, presented at many conferences, and written several published articles on JSF-related topics. Max also leads Exadel's RIA strategy and writes about RIA technologies in his blog, http://mkblog.exadel.com. He is an author of "Practical RichFaces" book (Apress). Max holds a BS in computer science from the University of California, Davis.
Micha Kiener - Head of Research and Innovation at Mimacom AG
Micha Keiner is responsible for Research and Innovation at Mimacom AG. Mimacom AG specializes in Java and open source technology utilizing agile methods. Micha is also the founder and main committer of the open source framework edoras and a committer on the Spring, ICEfaces, and Liferay projects.
After his diploma thesis in artificial intelligence, he focused on Java, especially in light-weight, model and process-driven architecture and framework development.
After his diploma thesis in artificial intelligence, he focused on Java, especially in light-weight, model and process-driven architecture and framework development.
Michael Freedman - Specification Lead for JSR 301 and JSR 329.
Michael Freedman is a developer in Oracle Corporation's ADF Portal team. He is specification lead for JSR 301: Portlet 1.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2 and JSR 329: Portlet 2.0 Bridge for JavaServer Faces 1.2. In the recent past he has represented Oracle on related standards committees including JSR 168 and JSR 286 (the Java Portlet APIs), Oasis WSRP technical committee, and JSR 314. Prior to working on Portals/Portlets, he has had a broad and varied technical background over his 25 year career working in some of Silicon Valley's premier companies on projects including graphical data tools and toolkits, pen based application development environments, multimedia application development environments and tools, and mobile technologies.
Neil Griffin - Senior Software Architect for Liferay, Inc
Neil Griffin is a Liferay project committer and represents Liferay on the JSR 314 (JSF 2.0) expert group. He has 16 years of professional experience in software engineering and serves as a consultant for clients implementing JSF and ICEfaces portlets. Neil is the co-founder of the PortletFaces project which makes it easier to develop JSF portlets that run within Liferay Portal. He has authored JSF and ICEfaces training for Liferay and ICEsoft and has been a speaker at conferences in North America and Europe.
Neil recently finished working on the 2nd Edition of the JSF Complete Reference with Ed Burns in which he helped bring the book up-to-date for JSF 2.0 and contributed an Appendix on JSF Portlets and PortletFaces.
Neil recently finished working on the 2nd Edition of the JSF Complete Reference with Ed Burns in which he helped bring the book up-to-date for JSF 2.0 and contributed an Appendix on JSF Portlets and PortletFaces.
Stan Silvert - JBoss Core Developer with over 20 years of industry experience
Stan Silvert is a JBoss Core Developer with over 20 years of industry experience. He is the project lead on the JSFUnit open source project.
JSFUnit is an integration test framework for JSF applications. It is designed to allow complete integration testing and debugging of JSF applications and JSF AJAX components. Stan is also responsible for JavaServer Faces and Seam integration on the JBoss Application Server.
He has represented JBoss/Red Hat on several JSF-related JSRs in the Java Community Process. These include the JSF core specification and the JSF Portlet Bridge specification.
JSFUnit is an integration test framework for JSF applications. It is designed to allow complete integration testing and debugging of JSF applications and JSF AJAX components. Stan is also responsible for JavaServer Faces and Seam integration on the JBoss Application Server.
He has represented JBoss/Red Hat on several JSF-related JSRs in the Java Community Process. These include the JSF core specification and the JSF Portlet Bridge specification.
Ted Goddard - Senior Architect at ICEsoft
Ted Goddard is a Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and is the technical lead for the JavaServer Faces Ajax framework, ICEfaces. Following a PhD in Mathematics from Emory University that answered open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, he proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and web-based collaborative technologies. He has held positions at Sun Microsystems, AudeSi Technologies, and Wind River Systems, and currently particpates in the Servlet and JavaServer Faces expert groups.
