Ram Kulkarni - Java EE Development with Eclipse - Second Edition

Ram Kulkarni has more than two decades of experience in developing software. He has architected and developed many enterprise web applications, client-server and desktop applications, application servers, IDE, and mobile applications. Also, he is the author of Eclipse 4 RCP Development How-to published by Packt Publishing. He blogs at ramkulkarni.com.

I would like to thank Kevin Colaco and Nikhil Potdukhe of Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book and helping me decide the content and format.

Writing this book has been a long process, and it would not have been possible without the support and patience of my family.

I would like to thank my parents, my wife, Vandana, and son, Akash, for their continuous love and support. This book is dedicated to Vandana and Akash.

Aristides Villarreal Bravo is a Java developer and a member of the NetBeans Dream Team and Java User Groups leaders. He lives in Panam.

He has organized and participated in various national as well as international conferences and seminars related to Java, JavaEE, NetBeans, NetBeans Platform, free software, and mobile devices. He has been a writer of tutorials and blogs on Java, NetBeans, and web developers.

He has participated in several interviews on sites such as NetBeans, NetBeans DZone, and javaHispano. Also, he has been a developer of plugins for NetBeans. He has written technical reviews of many books on PrimeFaces, that includes Primefaces BluePrints , Packt Publising .

He is also the CEO of Javscaz Software Developers.

I would like to dedicate this to Oris in the sky.

Jeff Maury is currently working as the technical lead of the Java team at SysperTec Communication, a French ISV that offers mainframe integration tools.

Prior to SysperTec Communication, in 1996, he was a cofounder of a French ISV called SCORT, a precursor to the application server concept that offered J2EE-based integration tools.

He started his career in 1988 at Marben Products, a French integration company that specialized in telecommunication protocols. At Marben Products, he started as a software developer and left as an X.400 team technical lead and Internet division strategist.

I would like to dedicate my work to Jean-Pierre ANSART, my mentor, and thank my wife, Julia, for her patience, and my three sons, Robinson, Paul, and Ugo.

Phil Wilkins has spent over 25 years in the software industry working for both multinationals and software startups. He started out as a developer and worked his way up through technical and developmental leadership roles, primarily in Java-based environments. Currently, he is working as an enterprise technical architect in the IT group of a global optical healthcare manufacturer and retailer using Oracle middleware, cloud, and Red Hat JBoss technologies.

Outside his work commitments, he has contributed his technical capabilities to supporting others in a wide range of activities that include developing community websites, providing input and support to people authoring books, developing software ideas and businesses, and reviewing a range of technical books for Packt and other publishers. Also, he is a blogger and a participant in the Oracle middleware community.

When not immersed in work and technology, he spends his downtime pursuing his passion for music and with his wife and two boys.

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank my wife, Catherine, and our two sons, Christopher and Aaron, for their tolerance for the innumerable hours that I've spent in front of a computer contributing to activities for both my employer and other IT-related activities that I've supported over the years.