Ed Burns is currently a Consulting Member of the Technical Staff at Oracle America, Inc. At Oracle, Ed is the specification lead for JavaServer Faces, the standard Web Application Framework for Java EE. Ed contined in this role from his work at Sun Microsystems, Inc. In this role, Ed leads a team of web experts from across the industry in developing JavaServer Faces Technology through the Java Community Process and in open source. His areas of professional interests include web application frameworks, AJAX, reducing complexity, test driven development, requirements gathering, and computer supported collaborative work. Before working on JavaServer Faces, Ed worked on a wide variety of client and server side web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plugin, Jakarta Tomcat, the Cosmo Create HTML authoring tool, and the web transport layer in the Irix operating system from Silicon Graphics. Ed has a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. While at UIUC, Ed took a minor in Germanic Studies and worked for IBM in the co-op program, where he first acquired a fondness for computer history by working on System 370 Office Software. Ed is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences, having presented many times at Oracle's JavaOneSM conference, given keynote addresses at the JAX conference in Mainz, the W-JAX conference in Munich, Germany and the Globalcode Developer's Conference in S?o Paulo, Brazil, and the JSFDays conference in Vienna Austria. In addition to keynotes, Ed has given technical sessions atnumerous international Java conferences including Javapolis, Jazoon, JAX-India, TheServerSide.com Java Symposium, No Fluff Just Stuff, the Ajax Experience, JAOO, and others, and also has spoken at many Java User Group meetings. A complete list of Ed's conference speaking experience is available at Further information and blogs may be found at .

Hazem Saleh has eight years of experience in JEE and open source technologies. He is an Apache MyFaces committer and the founder of GMaps4JSF, Mashups4JSF, and MapMySocial. Beside being a book author, Hazem is also an author of many technical articles, a developerWorks contributing author and a technical speaker in both local and international conferences such as the IBM Regional Technical Exchange and JavaOne. Hazem is now working for IBM Egypt as a staff engineer. He is a Web 2.0 / WebSphere Portal SME.

Michael is a senior software developer at IRIAN Solutions in Vienna, Austria. There, his main focus lies in developing JSF and JEE applications for customers. Additionally, he is also doing JSF trainings and functions as an Apache MyFaces committer. Besides his work as software developer he also likes to write about JSF-related topics. In November 2009 his first book "JavaServer Faces 2.0" was published at the dpunkt.verlag. Furthermore, he is responsible for the contents of the online JSF tutorial JSF@Work provided by Irian.

Gerhard Petracek is Apache MyFaces committer and PMC chair, Apache OpenWebBeans committer and PMC member, Apache DeltaSpike committer, PPMC member and mentor, Apache member, Bean-Validation expert group member and co-founder of Apache MyFaces Extensions Validator, Apache MyFaces CODI and Apache DeltaSpike. At IRIAN Solutions Gerhard is responsible for Java-EE trainings and the development of modern web-applications for customers such as Credit-Suisse. Furthermore, he holds lectures at an Austrian University of Applied Sciences and is the author of several articles on JSF and Java-EE.

Mark Struberg is a software architect with over 20 years of programming experience. He has been working with Java since 1996 and is actively involved in open source projects in the Java and Linux area. He is Apache Software Foundation member and serves as PMC and Committer for OpenWebBeans, MyFaces, Mave, OpenJPA, BVal and other projects. Mark also is Java Expert Group Member for CDI.

Juergen Hoeller is co-founder of the Spring Framework project and Principal Engineer at SpringSource, a division of VMware, where he continues to lead the development of the core framework. Juergen is an experienced software architect and consultant with outstanding expertise in transaction management, O/R mapping technologies and enterprise messaging. Juergen is co-author of the bestselling book "Expert 1-on-1 J2EE Development without EJB" and regularly speaks at international technology conferences.

Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSFCentral ( www.jsfcentral.com) and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Mann is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua, specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Peter Niederwieser is a computer language enthusiast from Linz, Austria. Having used Java since 1997, he nowadays prefers to work with more flexible languages - in particular Groovy, Scala, and Clojure. Peter is the creator of Spock and a Groovy committer. Apart from hacking code, Peter enjoys to speak at JUGs and conferences such as Devoxx, Gr8Conf, and SpringOne 2GX. In his day job, Peter is a Principal Engineer at Gradleware.

Michael works as a Principal Architect for Senacor Technolgies AG in Germany. For many years he has been consulting various companies on software architectures and -development. Michael is specialized on Persistence, Apache Wicket and Presentation Techniques. He is an author for Java Magazin and a regular speaker on various national and international conferences.

Kai Wähner works as an IT-Consultant at MaibornWolff et al in Munich, Germany. His main area of expertise lies within the fields of JEE, EAI, SOA and Cloud Computing. He is speaker at international IT conferences such as Jazoon or Confess, writes articles for professional journals, and shares his experiences with new technologies on his blog (www.kai-waehner.de/blog). Contact: kai.waehner@mwea.de or Twitter: @KaiWaehner.

Leonardo is a software engineer at IRIAN Solutions in Vienna, Austria. He is an Apache MyFaces committer and PMC member and since 5 years he is an active committer of MyFaces related projects like MyFaces Core, MyFaces Tomahawk, MyFaces Commons, MyFaces Test and MyFaces Orchestra.

Andy Bosch is an independent consultant and trainer for JSF and Portal technologies. He wrote several books about JavaServer Faces and the combination with Portlets. Andy is an expert group member of JSR-301, JSR-329 and JSR-344. He regularly publishes articles in Java magazines and teaches web programming at various conferences. He also offers online tutorials on his website www.jsf-academy.com.

Christian is a software engineer and architect at Porsche Informatik in Salzburg, Austria. He develops Java applications for the web and the enterprise since 1999. Christian's focus is on web development, large scale applications and enterprise integration.

Andres is a Java/Groovy developer and Java Champion, with more than 11 years of experience in software design and development. He has been involved in web and desktop application developments since the early days of Java. He has also been teacher of computer science courses in the most prestigious education institute in Mexico. His current interests include Groovy, Scala and Swing. He is a true believer of open source and has participated in popular projects like Groovy, Griffon, JMatter and DbUnit, as well as starting his own projects (Json-lib, EZMorph, GraphicsBuilder, JideBuilder). Founding member and current project lead of the Griffon framework. He blogs periodically at http://jroller.com/aalmiray. You can find him on twitter too as @aalmiray. He likes to spend time with his beloved wife, Ixchel, when not hacking around.

David is a freelance software developer and architect sind 2006 and is also doing Wicket trainings. In his spare time he co-created the web framework "JSXP" and has created a climbing community blog using it. He is also interested in agile software development and currently helps a client to build an agile team while also working on that team.

As a young man Jörg Friedrich studied meteorology and has a degree in meteorology. Since 1994, he is managing director of INDAL GmbH & Co.KG, a company in Munster developing custom software. He also studied philosophy and is now Master of Arts in Philosophy. He writes philosophical articles for various Web journals. In the summer of 2012 his book on philopsophical aspects of the Internet world will be released.

Lukas Fryc is Software Engineer at JBoss by Red Hat, working as RichFaces core developer. He is focusing on simplicity of JSF development and on rapid test development tools which makes test-driven development a breeze. He is also a founder of Arquillian's Ajocado and RushEye extensions, and a Drone extension contributor. Lukas has Bachelor of Applied Informatics degree from Masaryk Univesity, Brno. He blogs on http://rik-ansikter.blogspot.com/ and tweets via @lfryc.

Jakob currently works as a software engineer at IRIAN Solutions in Vienna, Austria. In addition, he is currently studying Software and Information Engineering at Vienna University of Technology. He is an Apache MyFaces committer and PMC member as well as a JSF 2.2 expert group member. Thus his main concern is web development, especially JSF and Java EE. However, he is also very interested in IT security, compilers and large scale distributed systems. Jakob was a member of the winning team (We_0wn_Y0u from iSecLab at TU Vienna) of the 2011 UCSB international capture the flag contest. He blogs on http://www.jakobk.com and tweets via @jakobkorherr.

Software Engineer and JRebel Product Lead at ZeroTurnaround. Java junkie, vim fan and IntelliJ addict. Professional interests include programming laguages, middleware and tooling. Anton is also the Estonian JUG (www.jug.ee) leader and co-organizer of the larger developer community in Tallinn - Devclub.eu. Blogging at http://arhipov.blogspot.com. You can follow Anton at Twitter - @antonarhipov

Cagatay Civici is a member of JavaServer Faces Expert Group, the founder and project lead of popular PrimeFaces Component Suite and PMC member of open source JSF implementation Apache MyFaces. He’s a recognized speaker in international conferences such as SpringOne, JAX, Jazoon, JSFSummit and many local events such as JUGs. Cagatay is also an author and technical reviewer of couple of books regarding web application development with Java and JSF. As an experienced trainer, he has trained over 300 developers on Java EE technologies mainly JSF, Spring, EJB 3.x and JPA. Cagatay is currently working as a consultant, mentor and instructor for Prime Teknoloji in Turkey.

Martin is a software engineer at IRIAN Solutions in Vienna, Austria. He has been developing Java software for clients like T-Systems, OeKB and Credit-Suisse for years. His focus lies on on web development, JEE, security and encryption. As QuickRTAN product lead he develops core components, is responsible for cryptography and coordinates the implementation on various mobile platforms. Besides technology he is interested in travelling, natural sciences, theatre and music.

Stefan Schuster is IRIAN Solutions leading software developer in the area of Web 2.0 technologies. He's expert in JavaScript and CSS and responsible for trainings and consulting in client side projects for customers such as Credit Suisse. Working on IRIANs internal and consumer projects like QuickRTAN, Mind42 and Spaaze he's also very interested in and working with agile server technologies like Python, Node.js, NoSQL and recently added iOS application development to his portfolio. Also he was co-author of one of the first german books about Ruby on Rails, published by dpunkt.verlag in 2006.

Dominik is software developer at IRIAN Solutions. He has developed the JSFDays and Con-FESS Webpages from the last years. He is working on IRIANs internal products like QuickRTAN and for customers like Credit Suisse. His focus lies on developing JSF and JEE applications, JSF portlets (portletfaces for example) and Android stuff.

Freelancer for +10 years with focus on Grails and Neo4j Comitter to grails-data-mapping Maintainer of various grails plugins passionate volunteer firefighter

Andrei Glazunov works as a software engineer on Tiggzi (tiggzi.com), a cloud-based builder for HTML5 and native mobile apps created by Exadel. Earlier he was involved in front-end development of Tiggzi platform, and currently he is creating demo projects that leverage interaction with various third-party APIs to help developers feel more comfortable with Tiggzi. Apart from technology, Andrei is interested in photography, design, hiking and cycling.