John Bacon has been a journalist for more than 20 years, the last 17 as an editor and writer at USA Today.

Phil Bartholo is an Internet Systems Consultant specializing in Java Technologies for WaterWare Internet Services. He has written for Dot-Com Builder, java.sun.com, and developer.iplanet.com. His web page is at www.bartholo.com.

Jon Byous has been writing about technology -- from chips to mainframes -- for twenty years, working for Sun, Cisco, Oracle, Netscape, Quantum, and dozens of smaller tech firms.

Jane Christophersen specializes in explaining things that people have a tough time swallowing -- whether it's an endoscopic tube, corporate restructuring or technology. Based in Northern California, she's spent years translating the work of engineers and researchers into information that employees, customers and patients can digest easily. Topics she's covered range from anterior cruciate ligament rehab to Java technology to veterinary nutriceuticals. Contact her through her Web site: www.christophersen.com.

Heidi Dailey left her post as a high school English teacher to enter the realm of high technology. She has written numerous technical specification documents and developed courseware for Silicon Valley businesses and is now exploring the world of Java technology as a staff writer for java.sun.com.

Robert Eckstein has worked with Java since its first release. In a previous life, he has been an editor for O'Reilly Media, Inc. and a programmer for Motorola's cellular technology division. He has written or edited a number of books, including Java Swing, Java Enterprise Best Practices, Using Samba, XML Pocket Reference, and Webmaster in a Nutshell. In his spare time he has been known to tinker with filmmaking and digital photography, as well as collecting vintage video game consoles. He currently lives in Austin, Texas with his wife Michelle, his daughter Lauren, and their talking dog Ginger.

Kam Hay Fung has been a Java Consultant at the Sun Java Center, Australia since 2000. He is Sun certified on both the Java 2 Platform at the Developer level, and the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition at the Web Component Developer level. He has been developing applications using Java technology for more than 5 years. Prior to working at the Center, he spent more than 10 years on developing many types of applications, including e-business applications, distributed information systems, real-time embedded systems and CORBA based applications, using many programming languages.

Martin Hardee is "manager emeritus" of the java.sun.com Web site, and writes occasional features about consumer and enterprise technologies.

Janice J. Heiss, in addition to exploring the world of Java technology as a staff writer for Sun Microsystems Inc., is a published writer of poetry, fiction and memoir, and has written and performed for the stage, including stand-up comedy.

Anil Hemrajani is the Chief Technology Officer at iSavvix, a technology services firm for full-service Java and Internet Technology solutions. He can be reached at anil@isavvix.com.

Kammie Kayl has written about and worked in the trenches of the Web since the early nineties. With a degree in Journalism she has published stories in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and some small Bay Area broadband industry magazines such as Cue and Me!dea magazine.

John Kirkley is a writer and editor located in Mill Valley, Calif. His more than 40 years experience in the computer and communications industries includes editing Datamation magazine for over a dozen years and heading up his own marketing communications company for the past 15 years.

Rich Levin has been involved in the personal computer industry since 1979, as a software developer, reseller, consultant, journalist, and broadcaster. He has appeared, been profiled in, or written for CBS Radio, CMP Media, Dorling Kindersley, EarthWeb, Fawcette Publications, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, Penton Media, BusinessWeek, Byte, Compute!, PC/Computing, PC Magazine, PC Week, PC World, Popular Science, and many other leading industry periodicals and Webzines.

Norbert Lindenberg is the technical lead for Java Internationalization in Sun Microsystems' Java Web Services group. Before joining Sun, he worked on a variety of internationalization projects at General Magic and Apple Computer. He holds an M.S. degree in Computer Science from Universität Karlsruhe, Germany.

Dr. Qusay H. Mahmoud is a developer, author, and trainer who has presented technical tutorials at international conferences worldwide. His publications (two books; Distributed Programming with Java, and Learning Wireless Java, in addition to dozens of technical articles) have been translated into several languages including Korean, Czech, Japanes, Chinese, Italian, and Russian. He holds a B.Sc. in Data Analysis and a Masters degree in Computer Science, both from the University of New Brunswick in Canada, and a Ph.D in Computer Science from Middlesex University in England. Qusay can be reached at qmahmoud@javacourses.com

David Marks is an enterprise Java application architect based in Valley Forge, PA. He has worked with Java technology since the beta release of 1.0, and integrating personal computing with enterprise systems since 1984. You can reach David by writing to DavidMarks2000@Hotmail.com.

Susan Mitchell relishes interviewing sources in Silicon Valley and far beyond to make high-tech stories relevant to consumers and executives around the globe. She also writes for nurses on topics such as the international outbreak of meningococcal disease spread from the annual pilgrimage to Mecca in 2000. Susan's readers can contact her at iComProse@onemain.com.

Steven Meloan has covered the Web and the Internet for such publications as Wired, Rolling Stone, Playboy, and the San Francisco Examiner. He has also written for American Cybercast's award winning Web Episodic, "The Pyramid."

Kieron Murphy is the editorial manager of EarthWeb and a freelance writer in New York City. He has written for Developer.com, Gamelan, JARS, JavaWorld, SunWorld, the Java Report, and several other technical publications, including IEEE Potentials. And he really knows how to enjoy a good meal.

Dana Nourie is a Sun Microsystems staff writer. She enjoys exploring the Java platform, especially creating interactive web applications using servlets and JavaServer Pages technologies, such as the Learning Paths page and the Building an Application tutorial in the New to Java Programming Center. She is also a certified scuba diver, amateur astronomer, and a photographer.

Rodrigo Oliveira is a software engineer currently working for Propertyware. He specializes in J2EE application design and development. He has worked on several J2EE applications for clients such as Sun Microsystems, Leapfrog, MobileWorkforce, and the James Irvine Foundation.

Mark Roth is a member of the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition team. He is currently a co-lead for the JavaServer Pages specification version 2.0, and was the primary implementor of Portable Interceptors in the Java technology and CORBA Reference Implementation.

Madhu Siddalingaiah is a founding principle of SEA Corporation, a consulting and development firm. He has published numerous articles and books about Java technology and speaks at technology conferences around the world. Outside of work, Madhu can be found flying helicopters and playing drums, but not at the same time. Madhu can be reached at madhu@madhu.com.

Mary Smaragdis is a marketing gal at Sun. She was hired to do PR for the Java platform back before there was such things as J2EE, J2SE and J2ME. She's held various jobs at Sun including executive speechwriting (she thinks Gosling may have actually considered some of her ideas before discarding), front page editor of java.sun.com and all sorts of other odd jobs. She's thrilled to contribute as a writer for java.sun.com from time-to-time.

Daniel Steinberg is a recovering academic who now enjoys spending his time as a developer using Java technology. He is also a trainer and an author. He covers Java technology on the Macintosh for the O'Reilly Network, and for JavaWorld magazine and also writes for developerWorks. He is the co-author of the Java 2 Bible and the Java 2 Bible Enterprise Edition from Hungry Minds. Daniel contributed to Wrox publications on WebObjects and on Mac OS X for the Java platform and is co-author of a book to be published by Prentice Hall on Extreme Programming. When he is not writing, he loves pushing his two daughters on their "non-JFC swingset" in the back yard. Currently Daniel is working with Dim Sum Thinking, Inc. as its director of Java offerings and can be reached at daniel@dimsumthinking.com.

Laura Geele Wang writes about new developments in Java technology, the printing industry, computer software, and network security from her office, which is in the left corner of the Silicon Valley. You can reach her at lgeelew@pacbell.net.

John Zukowski conducts strategic Java consulting with JZ Ventures, Inc., offers technical support through AnswerSquad.com, and is working with SavaJe Technologies to develop a next-generation mobile phone platform. His latest books are Mastering Java 2, J2SE 1.4 (Sybex, April 2002) and Learn Java with JBuilder 6 (Apress, March 2002). Contact John at jaz@zukowski.net.