About the Authors

DEBU PANDA is a seasoned product manager, technologist, and community leader. He has authored more than 50 articles on Enterprise Java, Cloud, and SOA technologies and two books on Enterprise middleware. Follow Debu on Twitter @debupanda.

REZA RAHMAN is a former long-time independent consultant and is now officially a Java EE/GlassFish evangelist at Oracle. Reza is a frequent speaker at Java user groups and conferences worldwide. He is an avid contributor to industry journals like JavaLobby/DZone and TheServerSide. Reza has been a member of the Java EE, EJB, and JMS expert groups. He implemented the EJB container for the Resin open source Java EE application server.

RYAN CUPRAK is an e-formulation analyst at Dassault Systèmes (DS), author of the NetBeans Certification Guide from McGraw-Hill, and president of the Connecticut Java Users Group since 2003. He’s also a JavaOne 2011 Rockstar Presenter. At DS he’s focused on developing data integrations to convert clients’ data, as well as user interface development. Prior to joining DS, he worked for a startup distributed-computing company, TurboWorx, and Eastman Kodak’s Molecular Imaging Systems group, now part of Carestream Health. At TurboWorx he was a Java developer and a technical sales engineer supporting both presales and professional services. Cuprak earned a BS in computer science and biology from Loyola University Chicago. He is a Sun-certified NetBeans IDE specialist.