Individuals

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)