Open Source Live!

I HEAR and I FORGET. I SEE and I REMEMBER. I DO and I UNDERSTAND.

Attendee Feedback:

"It's a great course to attend and I recommend it to lead/architects/individual contractors before they start any new project and decide on technologies"

-Srinivas Peri, Adobe

"We have plans to implement JSF/Spring/Hibernate in our future projects, and attending the Open Source Live! practicum has given us more insights in those topics."

-Parda Akalamkm, TransAmerica

Instructor Bio:

Chris Richardson, developer, architect and author, POJO in Action
Kito Mann, developer, enterprise architect, author, Java Server Faces in Action
P. Vilas Tulachan, J2EE architect, Business Rules consultant, pen source proponent, founder of Open Source
Max Katz, senior systems engineer at Exadel, conducts JSF training.

Chris Richardson (chris@chrisrichardson.net) is a developer and architect with over 20 years of experience. He is the author of POJOs in Action, which describes how to build enterprise Java applications with POJOs and lightweight frameworks. Chris runs a consulting company that specializes in helping companies build better software faster. He has been a technical leader at Insignia, BEA, and elsewhere. Chris has a computer science degree from the University of Cambridge in England and lives in Oakland, CA. Website and blog: www.chrisrichardson.net.

Kito D. Mann is editor-in-chief of JSF Central (www.jsfcentral.com) and the author of JavaServer Faces in Action (Manning). He is a member of several Java Community Process expert groups (including JSF and Portlets), and an internationally recognized speaker. Kito is also the Principal Consultant at Virtua, Inc., specializing in enterprise application architecture, training, development, mentoring, and JSF product strategy. He holds a BA in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University.

P. Vilas Tulachan is a long time open source proponent and the founder of Open Source Live! He is a J2EE architect and a business rule consultant/trainer and has over 15 years of technology experience. He's an author of Developing EJB 2.0 Component book published by Sun Press and he has delivered J2EE training as an indepdent trainer for Netscape and Sun Microsystem in the past. He has given several technical talks at JavaOne conference and at Java Users groups in the Bay Area. Prior to consulting and training in the Bay Area, he worked at Neural Network Labs at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena.

Max Katz is a senior systems engineer at Exadel, responsible for technical support, training and customer care for the Exadel product line. He also conducts online and onsite JavaServer Faces training. With more than seven years of IT experience, he brings a wide array of skills and experiences from his technical and managerial positions. Mr. Katz holds a B.S. in computer science from the University of California at Davis.