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)

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