About the Authors

About the Authors

Jim D'Anjou is a Senior Software Engineer and a certified IT Specialist located at the IBM Silicon Valley Lab in San Jose, California. He has a degree in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Jim has over 25 years of industry experience at IBM and elsewhere. He has held a variety of technical and management positions developing products for relational databases, database tools, application repositories, and application development tools. He holds two U.S. patents for work in software process automation. In March 2001 he joined the Eclipse Jumpstart team and serves as an instructor and industry consultant.

Scott Fairbrother is an Advisory Software Engineer at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Scott is a software developer with over 20 years of experience. He has developed object-oriented application frameworks for business process management. He has written specifications for IBM middleware on Windows 2000 and has also written about Microsoft Visual Studio .NET. Most recently, Scott joined the Eclipse Jumpstart team in February 2001. Scott is an Eclipse instructor and continues to consult with IBM and ISVs to help create commercial offerings based on Eclipse.

Dan Kehn is a Senior Software Engineer at IBM in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. His interest in object-oriented programming goes back to 1985, long before it enjoyed the acceptance it has today. He has a broad range of software experience, having worked on development tools like VisualAge for Smalltalk, operating system performance and memory analysis, and user interface design. Dan worked as a consultant for object-oriented development projects throughout the United States as well as for four years in Europe. His recent interests include object-oriented analysis/design, application development tools, and Web programming with the WebSphere Application Server. He is currently concentrating on performance analysis and tuning of IBM Eclipse-based products.

John Kellerman joined IBM in 1984 with a computer science degree from Purdue University. He has since completed graduate degrees in Computer Engineering at North Carolina State and Business Administration at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has spent the majority of his 20 years at IBM in the development and management of application development tool products, including ISPF/PDF, VisualAge Smalltalk, VisualAge Generator, and Eclipse. John was a founding member of the Eclipse Project, which got under way in late 1999. He is currently IBM Product Manager of Eclipse. His responsibilities include working closely on behalf of IBM with eclipse.org, the Eclipse Foundation, and the member companies to help grow the Eclipse community of contributors and commercial offerings.

Pat McCarthy, a Senior Software Engineer at IBM, is a specialist in the use and management of development technologies on a variety of runtime platforms. Pat's IBM career has included hands-on development of business application systems in Poughkeepsie, New York, and 12 years of project management for the development of IBM Redbooks and education offerings in San Jose, California. He has spent the last several years in Raleigh, North Carolina, focused on supporting the use of Eclipse technology in IBM application development products. Pat has a B.S. from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an M.S. from Marist College. He is the co-author of more than 20 IBM Redbooks.