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About the authors

Frank Sommers is a Senior Editor with Artima Developer. He also serves as chief editor of ClusterComputing.org, the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing's newsletter, and is an elected member of the Jini Community's Technical Oversight Committee. Frank is also founder and president of Autospaces, a company dedicated to delivering rich-client Java enterprise solutions to small and medium-size businesses. Prior to joining Artima, Frank wrote the Jiniology and Web services columns for JavaWorld.

Bill Venners is president of Artima Software, Inc. and editor-in-chief of Artima.com. He is author of the book, Inside the Java Virtual Machine, a programmer-oriented survey of the Java platform's architecture and internals. His popular columns in JavaWorld magazine covered Java internals, object-oriented design, and Jini. Bill has been active in the Jini Community since its inception. He led the Jini Community's ServiceUI project that produced the ServiceUI API. The ServiceUI became the de facto standard way to associate user interfaces to Jini services, and was the first Jini community standard approved via the Jini Decision Process. Bill also serves as an elected member of the Jini Community's initial Technical Oversight Committee (TOC), and in this role helped to define the governance process for the community. He currently devotes most of his energy to building Artima.com into an ever more useful resource for developers.