Speakers

We're gathering project and spec leads, go-to bloggers, best-selling authors and industry insiders for 3 days of information sharing. Here are the first 9 expert speakers confirmed to present:

Robert Brewin David Chappell Jeremy Deane David Geary Ryan Heaton

Eben Hewitt Josh Long Reza Rahman Matt Raible

Meet the Experts:

Robert Brewin, CTO and Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems
Presenting a Keynote: Topic: The Future of Enterprise Java

Robert Brewin is a Sun Distinguished Engineer and CTO for Software at Sun Microsystems. His responsibilities include technical leadership for developer products and application platforms, including the Java platform, mobility, enterprise software and business integration products. His key areas of responsibility include Sun's expanding role in the development of Web 2.0 technologies, improving the developer experience, and alignment and integration of Sun platforms, technologies and tools.

Bob brings his extensive customer and developer-focused experience to bear as prior to taking on this new role, he was the chief architect for Sun's developer tools portfolio, where he was a principal driver behind a number of key initiatives and projects. These included strategic enhancements to the award-winning NetBeans IDE, architectural changes and alignment of the Studio family of tools and add-ons with NetBeans and as the visionary behind the design, creation and delivery of the revolutionary Java Studio Creator product.

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David Chappell, Vice President and Chief Technologist for SOA, Oracle Corporation
Presenting a Keynote: Topic: Moving Forward with SOA

David Chappell is Vice President and Chief Technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. He is well known worldwide for his writings and public lectures on the subjects of Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards. As author of the O’Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, he has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. Dave has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. His experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.

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Jeremy Deane, Technical Architect, Collaborative Consulting
Presenting: Resource-Oriented Enterprise Service Bus

Jeremy Deane is a Technical Architect at Collaborative Consulting with over 12 years of software engineering experience in leadership positions. His areas of expertise include Resource-Oriented Architecture, Performance Engineering and Software Process Improvement. In addition, he is an accomplished speaker and frequent contributor to the SOA Institute Bulletin.

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David Geary, Author, Graphic Java Swing, Core JSF and more

Presenting: GWT fu: Going places with the Google Web Toolkit and Streamline Web Application Development with JSF2.0

David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF), and Google Web Toolkit (GWT). A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all-time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.

David served on the JSTL, JSF 1.0, and JSF 2.0 Expert Groups at Sun, and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He was the second Struts committer and invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments.

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Ryan Heaton, Lead Developer, Enunciate, OAuth and OFX4J
Presenting: Practical Web Service Design and Development

Ryan Heaton is a senior software engineer at FamilySearch.org where he is responsible for the design and development of Web service APIs. Ryan is the lead developer of a number of open source Web service projects, including Enunciate, OAuth for Spring Security, and OFX4J.

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Eben Hewitt, Author, Java SOA Cookbook
Presenting: Creating an Event Driven SOA

Eben Hewitt is the author of five technical books, including O’Reilly’s Java SOA Cookbook, and a contributor to 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know. He has spoken on SOA at conferences such as JavaOne and was an invited speaker to the Business Technology Summit in Bangalore. He has been interviewed on SOA by InfoQ, is a TOGAF 8 Certified Architect, a certified Scum Master, and holds several Java certifications.

Hewitt is a software architect at a multi-billion dollar retail company, where he is charged with driving their SOA initiative and architecting large-scale, event-driven applications.

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Josh Long, Senior Software Engineer, Wells Fargo
Presenting: Getting Started with jBPM4 and Spring and Getting Started with Spring Integration

Josh Long is as a senior software engineer and architect specializing in Java integration and development. Josh has been working on computers for most of his life, and still pursues them avidly. Josh is an author, open source enthusiast, contributor and blogger. He contributed to the Apache Tapestry project, helped create a Maven archetype for J2ME, and maintains a project on Google Code. John actively participates in the Phoenix Java User Group.

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Reza Rahman, Author, EJB 3 in Action; Member, Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups
Presenting: Java EE 6 Overview and Using EJB3 on Tomcat

Reza Rahman is an independent consultant currently focused on the Resin EJB 3.1 Lite/Java EE 6 Web Profile implementation. He is the author of EJB 3 in Action and a member of the Java EE 6 and EJB 3.1 expert groups. Reza is a frequent speaker at seminars, conferences and Java user groups as well as an avid contributor to TheServerSide.com.

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Matt Raible, UI Consultant, Open Source Web Frameworks
Presenting: The Future of Web Frameworks

Matt Raible is a consultant specializing in open source Java frameworks and Ajax development. He is the author of Spring Live and Pro JSP, Third Edition, and an active Java open-source contributor and blogger on http://raibledesigns.com. He is the founder of AppFuse, a project which allows you to get started quickly with Java frameworks, as well as a committer on the Apache Roller project.