About the Authors

SIMON LAWS is a committer for the Apache Tuscany project focused on building the Java runtime for the Service Component Architecture. He’s been working in commercial software development for 23 years and has a general interest in distributed component-based technology. In the past he’s worked on both PHP and C++ runtimes for SCA. He’s a member of the IBM Open Source SOA project team and lives and works in Hampshire in the UK.

MARK COMBELLACK graduated with a degree in computer science in 1994 and has been using the Java programming language since JDK 1.0.1 in 1996. Mark is currently working as a software developer specializing in the development of Java application servers for the telecommunication industry. Previously, he has developed software for interactive television and video on demand as well as other telecommunication projects for British Telecommunications. He is a committer and a member of the Project Management Committee of the Apache Tuscany project. For two years, he was co-chair of the SCA-J OASIS Open CSA technical committee standardizing SCA in the Java programming language.