Sameer Tyagi

SAMEER TYAGI is Enterprise Java Architect at Sun Microsystems' Java Center in Burlington, MA. He co-authored Professional JSP, Professional JSP-J2EE Edition, and Professional Java Server Programming-J2EE Edition, and writes regularly for Java Pro, JavaWorld, and Java Developers Journal.

MICHAEL VORBURGER is Chief Software Architect for Vertical*I, a firm providing enterprise software solutions to the life sciences industries. He has implemented large-scale persistence systems inspired by the JDO standard.

KEIRON MCCAMMON, CTO, Versant Corporation, responsible for product strategy and direction, has worked with finance and telecom customers to develop and deploy large scale Java/J2EE distributed object solutions. A member of the JDO expert group, he presents regularly on JDO at leading events.

HEIKO BOBZIN, also a member of the JDO expert group, led JDO and ODMG 3.0 implementation at Poet Software.