About the Author

Debu Panda is a Senior Principal Product Manager of the Oracle ApplicationServer development team focused primarily on EJB. He has more than 14 years ofexperience in the IT industry and has prepared numerous articles and conferencepresentations on Enterprise Java and EJB.Reza Rahman has been working with Java as a language and Java EE as a platformsince the mid-nineties. He has worked with Enterprise Java Beans, Spring andHibernate to develop commercial and enterprise software systems.Derek Lane is an Architect for Countrywide Financial Corporation. He is theFounder of both the Oklahoma City Java User Group and the Dallas/Fort Worth,Texas MicroJava User Group.