Edward Burns

Ed Burns is currently a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems where he leads a team of experts from across the industry in developing JavaServer Faces Technology through the Java Community Process and in open source. He is the author of two books for McGraw-Hill: Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers (2008) and JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference (co-authored with Chris Schalk, 2006). Before working on JavaServer Faces, Ed worked on a wide variety of client and server-side Web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic for X, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plug-in, Jakarta Tomcat, the Cosmo Create HTML authoring tool, and the Web transport layer in the Irix operating system from Silicon Graphics. Ed is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences, having presented many times at Sun’s JavaOne conference, given keynote addresses at the W-JAX conference in Munich, Germany, the Globalcode Developer’s Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the JSF Days Conference in Vienna, Austria, and also has spoken at numerous Java User Group meetings and the No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium. Further information and blogs may be found at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/.