Ken Finnigan - GateIn Cookbook

Ken Finnigan is a Senior Software Engineer at Red Hat and Technical Lead of the JBoss Portlet Bridge project and a member of the GateIn Development team. As a Consultant and Engineer he has over 15 years of development experience with enterprises throughout the world using technologies that include Java EE frameworks (JSF, CDI, EJB3, Hibernate, Seam), Java testing frameworks (Arquillian, JUnit, TestNG), Maven, Ant, Arquillian, and a variety of others. In his spare time he is a Committer for Apache DeltaSpike, JBoss Seam 3, ShrinkWrap, and Arquillian.

I would like to thank my wife, Erin, and my family for all their support and understanding through the entire book development process.

Luca Stancapiano is a Consultant Expert in Java EE technologies since 2000. He started contributing to the JBoss Community at an early stage in his career. He contributed initially to Hibernate, JBoss AS, JBoss Portal, and JBoss Cache, and more recently to projects such as Seam, GateIn, ExoJCR, ModeShape, and Infinispan.

In 2005 he became a JBoss Advanced Consultant, and in 2006 he became the Project Leader of JBoss Forums.

In the Apache Community, he has contributed to Lucene and ManifoldCF, improving his knowledge on the search engines as a result.

He has also contributed for the OSGi Alliance, making products compliant with OSGi. He collaborates with Sourcesense as an open source ECM consultant and trainer.

I would like to thank the GateIn community team for their participation and Packt's team for the opportunity to write this book, and Monica for moral support.

Piergiorgio Lucidi is an open source ECM Specialist at Sourcesense. Sourcesense is a European open source systems integrator providing consultancy, support, and services around key open source technologies.

He works as Software Engineer, and he has 8 years of experience in the areas of Enterprise Content Management (ECM), system integrations, web, and mobile applications. He is an expert in integrating ECM solutions in web and portal applications.

He contributes as PMC member, Project Leader, and Committer at the Apache Software Foundation for the project Apache ManifoldCF; he also contributes on ECM connectors such as CMIS, Alfresco, and ElasticSearch. He is a Project Leader and Committer of the JBoss Community, and he contributes to some of the projects of the JBoss Portal platform.

He is a Speaker at conferences dedicated to ECM, Java, Spring Framework, and open source products and technologies.

He is an Author, Technical Reviewer, and Affiliate Partner at Packt Publishing, for whom he wrote the technical book Alfresco 3 Web Services . As Technical Reviewer, he contributed to both Alfresco 3 Cookbook and Alfresco Share . As Affiliate Partner, he writes and publishes book reviews on his website Open4Dev (http://www.open4dev.com/).

I would like to thank Packt Publishing for giving me this second opportunity to write a book about a very interesting open source project. I would also like to thank my company Sourcesense for giving me some time to spend on this project. Finally, I would like to thank my girlfriend Barbara, who encouraged me during the making of this book.

Antoine Herzog started with computers in 1981, with the ZX81, writing machine code for the CPU, and has never stopped programming since then. He started programming in Java in 2003 and he started building portals with JBoss Portal in 2005 (version 2.2), and followed on with GateIn. He contributes to the project, with debugging, jira, wiki, and forum posts. He is very pleased to contribute and help the community to develop and use this nice technology and its associated tools.

Since 2006, he works at Sysemo Sarl (www.sysemo.com), his own company, as an Expert in J2EE, JBoss AS, GateIn, JSF, RichFaces, EJB, and Hibernate.

He has helped many companies to build their portals, both at management level and the programming level.

He also founded www.presta-expert.com. He programs and runs this portal website, on a JBoss AS7 platform, with GateIn 3.4.0.

Antoine graduated from France's Ecole Nationale Superieure de Techniques Avances in 1991 (ENSTA, Concours des Mines), where he enjoyed pursuing knowledge of sciences and engineering alongside his self-taught skills.

Gurkan Erdogdu is CTO and Co-Founder of MechSoft. He has been involved with Java and Java EE technologies since 1999. Gurkan is also very active in the open source world and is a member of several open source foundations. Gurkan is a member of Apache Software Foundation and is a founder of the project Apache OpenWebBeans. Gurkan also gives training and special consultancies on Java and Java EE technologies. Gurkan holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University (METU). Gurkan lives in Ankara with his wife and little daughter. He can be reached at <>.

I owe thanks to my parents who provided encouragement, friendship, wisdom, and patience in my life. Without them, it would not have been possible to become the person I am now.

Rafael Liu has been working with Java for 7 years as a Developer, Architect, and Consultant. Focusing mainly on JEE and middleware solutions from mainstream vendors, he has worked in many mission-critical systems for the Government of Brazil, defining infrastructure architecture and doing pre-production support such as load tests, performance analysis, bottleneck diagnosis, and tuning of both applications and JVMs. He is currently Technical Account Manager at Red Hat, where he deals with Application Servers, SOA-related middleware solutions, portal, development frameworks, and basically most of the JBoss stack. Rafael is an open source enthusiast and a GNU/Linux fan. Speaking and writing about Java is one of his passions.