About the Authors

CLINTON BEGIN is a Senior Developer and Agile Mentor for ThoughtWorks Canada. He has been building enterprise applications for nine years based on platforms such as Java and .NET. Clinton has extensive experience with agile methodologies, persistence frameworks, and relational databases. He is the original creator of the iBATIS persistence framework, which he designed in response to the challenges faced by object-oriented developers dealing with enterprise relational databases. Clinton is an experienced speaker, having delivered formal presentations, tutorials, and training sessions from San Francisco to New York City.

BRANDON GOODIN is an independent consultant who has been developing enterprise applications for over seven years, utilizing a varied set of languages and technologies. His industry experience spans manufacturing, health care, e-commerce, real estate, and recreation. He has been contributing to the iBATIS project since 2003.

LARRY MEADORS is an independent consultant offering development, support, and training services. He has been building enterprise web applications with multiple databases and multiple languages since the late ’90s, and became involved with the iBATIS project back in the 1.x days.