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Here's a list of people associated with Java & related technologies:
- Christian Merenda - founder of OOMEGA, a company providing model-driven software engineering and transparent persistency for Java.
- Dion Almaer - TheServerSide?.com editor, founder of Adigio
- Ken Arnold? - creator of Jini, JavaSpaces, Curses, and Rogue
- Calvin Austin? - J2SE 1.5 specification lead, co-author Advanced Programming for the Java 2 platform
- Tom Ball - Jackpot lead, early JDK engineer, AWT and Swing lead, and Sun Labs researcher
- Cedric Beust - now at Google, (ex-BEA, Weblogic Container Architect)
- Joshua Bloch - now at Google, author of "Effective Java" and spec lead of Assertions, Metadata, Enumerations, Autoboxing, Enhanced for loops, Static Import, Class File Specification and the Java Language Specification.
- John (jbob) Bobowicz - Java.net CTO, founder, and original Community Manager
- Gilad Bracha? - Spec lead of Generics, Enumerations, Autoboxing, Enhanced for loops and Static Import
- Mike Cannon-Brookes? - founder of Atlassian, creator of JIRA and java.blogs
- Patrick Chan? - developer at the original Java platform project and author of many Quick Reference books
- Bill Day? - Java Technology Evangelist (focus on wireless), writing about software development for numerous publications
- Bruce Eckel - author of "Thinking In Java"
- David Epstein? - Founder of PublicStaticVoidMain?, creator of JJ, facilitator of the JJ Dream Team supporting Advanced Placement (AP) CS teachers
- Scott Ferguson? - Programmed Caucho Resin, Amber, Hessian, XTP and Burlap
- Marc Fleury? - Creator of JBoss
- Amy Fowler? - Spec lead of JavaServer Faces
- John Fowler? - CTO of Sun (Software group)
- Martin Fowler? - author of UML Distilled, Analysis Patterns and Refactoring and others
- Neal Gafter - designer and implementor for JDK5 language features, author of Java Puzzlers, and spec lead for adding Closures to Java.
- John Gage? - Chief Researcher and Director of the Science Office
- Felipe Gaucho? - a surfer, a teacher and a software designer
- Rog Gingell? - VP and Chief Engineer of Sun
- Gene Gleyzer - Founder of Tangosol and Chief Architect of Coherence, member of the JSR 236-237 expert groups
- James Gosling? - co-author of Java Language Specification and VP of Sun
- Richard Green? - VP of Sun (developer tools)
- Graham Hamilton? - VP of Sun and spec lead of the Logging API. Contributed to CORBA support, JDBC API, JavaBeans, Java Plug-in, RMI-IIOP, JAX-RPC and others. He was the spec lead to Java 1.3 and 1.4 and one of the designers of the JCP program
- Mark Hapner? - Spec lead of J2EE 1.4
- Navin Boddu? - Spec Lead of Java Card API
- Guilherme Hazan? - Creator of SuperWaba, the most complete JVM for PalmOS and WinCE
- Gregor Hohpe - design patterns author
- Jason Hunter? - author of Java Servlet Programming and writer at JavaWorld, creator of Tomcat, representative of the Apache Software Foundation on JCP, being a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet/JSP and JAXP API development.
- Reggie Hutcherson? - manager of the Java evangelists
- Dean Jacobs? - (ex-BEA, Architect)
- Frank Jennings? - Author of JDJ Industry Newsletter column "Frank's Java Code Stack" and the creator of cross platform BAR Archiver
- Rod Johnson? - author of "J2EE Design and Development" and the Spring framework
- Bill Joy? - co-author of Java Language Specification and Chief Scientist and Corporate Executive Officer of Sun.
- Heinz Kabutz - author of a popular technical Java newsletter
- Unnsse Khan - Freelance Consultant. Fortune 100 clients included Phantom Works (Boeing's R&D Unit).
- Gregor Kiczales? - leader of the PARC project, that developed aspect-oriented programming and AspectJ
- Gavin King - founder of the Hibernate project
- Doug Lea? - author of "Concurrent Programming in Java", spec lead of Concurrency Utilities and member of the expert group of Java Memory Model and Thread Specification Revision; currently involved with JSR 236+237
- Tim Lindholm? - CTO of Sun, architect of J2ME platform and the JVM, and spec lead of Java Memory Model and Thread Revision
- Patrick Linskey? - Founder and CTO of Solarmetric, now BEA
- Doug Locke? - Spec lead of Real Time Java
- Floyd Marinescu? - founder of InfoQ?.com, former director of TheServerSide and author of some EJB books
- Craig McClanahan - creator of Struts and primary architect of the Catalina servlet container. He is responsible for the web tier of the J2EE platform
- Scott McNealy? - co-founder and CEO of Sun
- Audrius Meškauskas - The main author of the GNU Classpath CORBA and RMI-IIOP packages.
- Richard Monson? - author of the books "Enterprise JavaBeans" and "Java Message Service", architect of OpenEJB and member of the expert groups of J2EE 1.4, JDO and EJB 2.1
- Kia Mousavi - co-founder and CTO of Protecode, a technology company that focuses on software Intellectual Property (IP) determination and software Bill of Materials (BOM) management.
- Rickard Oberg - developer of JBoss, XDoclet and other open source J2EE projects. Author of "Mastering RMI"
- Joseph Ottinger - Editor of TheServerSide?.com
- Joe Palrang? - creator of Duke
- Kirk Pepperdine? - Java Performance Tuning, more recently editor at TheServerSide?.com
- Simon Phipps? - Chief Technology Evangelist at Sun
- Cameron Purdy - Founder and CEO of Tangosol, spec lead for JSR 107 and member of JSR 236-237 EG
- Ed Roman? - formerly the founder and CEO of TheServerSide and The Middleware Company
- Rick Ross? - Founder of Javalobby.org
- Sam Ruby? - VP of the Apache Software Foundation, former chairman of the Apache Jakarta project. Developer on the Apache Soap and Bean Scripting Framework projects
- Craig Russell? - Spec lead of JDO
- Matt Schmidt? - Technology director of Javalobby.org, lead developer of JLCP
- Jonathan Schwartz? - Executive Vice President of Sun (Software group); CEO of Sun MicroSystems?
- Jack Shirazi? - author of Java Performance Tuning and senior editor at JavaPerformanceTuning?.com
- Mike Slinn? - founder of Zamples
- John Ferguson Smart - J2EE Architect and author of Java Power Tools
- Mike Spille - Author of NIO-based EmberIO?, Pyrasun blog
- Raghavan Srinivas? - one of the main Java evangelists. Can be identified by his cowboy hat
- Daniel Steinberg? - Editor-in-Chief of Java.net
- Guy Steele? - Co-author of Java Language Specification
- Balakris Subramaniam - J2EE Architect and Java evangelist-at-large
- Hani Suleiman - The "Bile Blogger" and member of the JCP Executive Committee
- Jon Tirsen? - creator of Nanning Aspects
- Tom Tromey? - RedHat? hacker working on the GNU Java Compiler and the free runtime libraries - GNU Classpath -http://www.fosdem.org/2004/index/interviews/interviews_tromey
- Bill Venners? - President of Artima, author of "Inside the Java Virtual Machine" and writer at JavaWorld magazine
- Jim Waldo? - developer of Jini
- Joe Walker? - creator of DWR
- Alan Williamson? - former Editor-in-Chief of Java Developers Journal, co-author of Ant Developers Handbook, and others.
- Klaus Wuestefeld? - creator of Prevayler
- Billy Newport - WebSphere High Availability Architect and WebSphere XD ObjectGrid architect.
Discussion about Individuals
- eventually we may want to categorize people
- we might also want to include guidelines on how to decide if someone should be mentioned at all -- or everyone who even looked funny in Java's direction once may wind up on this list (for example: Bill Gates: Chief Wizard of the Anti-Java Society)
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