Lloyd H. Meinholz - Hudson 3 Essentials

Lloyd H. Meinholz is currently a senior developer and an architect at a mid-sized company, building enterprise applications. He has been building web applications using Linux, Java, and many other technologies for more than 13 years. Lloyd has mostly focused on server-side development, and often deals with topics around build and deployment. Lloyd has been programming for over 25 years.

It's hard to understand how much effort is involved in writing a book until you've done it. Completion of this book would have been impossible without the support of my family. I would like to thank Katarina, my wife, partner, and friend, for all her encouragement. I also want to thank my children, Thomas and Maria, for inspiring me.

Additionally, I would also like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me the opportunity to write this book, and for their support and guidance in the difficult task of writing this book.

Jrme Leleu is a software architect living in Paris, France. A consultant for 7 years, he has worked in many different companies, fields, and with many different people. He has participated in many IT projects as a Developer, Technical Lead, and Projects Manager, mostly in J2EE technology. Now working in a French telecom company, he is the Software Architect of the web SSO, which supports very high traffic from millions of authentications and users every day. He is involved in open source development as the CAS (web SSO) Chairman. For more information, visit http://www.jasig.org/cas. Interested in security/protocol issues, he has developed several libraries, one of which is, http://www.pac4j.org to implement client support for protocols such as CAS, OAuth, and OpenID.

Simone Renzo is a 19-year-old student of Computer Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca, located in Milan (Italy). He is mainly skilled in advanced C and Java programming, especially on the Android and Linux side. He works as an Android Apps programmer in various companies around the world, and likes to maintain his own Android custom kernel on several devices as well. Since he was a child, he has showed a great interest towards computer studies and PC hardware. He started working on Java and Android in 2010, and since then, he has improved his skills until being noticed by many companies and communities. Now he is also working as a Redactor for a blog named ChimeraRevo.com.

I would like to thank my dad who has always supported and stimulated me to improve myself and my skills. I would also like to thank my Redaction that helped me in many ways.

Dan Watling is a professional software developer for a major education software company with over a decade of experience. He has built many projects from the ground-up using a "test-first" approach. His software is continuously integrated with Hudson from the get-go. Throughout his career, he has always focused on delivering high quality products using a variety of different technologies on various platforms. When he isn't glued to a computer, he is busy playing with his kids Edward and Luca.

I'd like to thank my wife, Gabriella, for her continued support.