Chad Davis Chad Davis, though currently a software developer, harbors a secret past life as an English major. He holds Master's degrees in both English Literature and Computer Science. In addition to this book, he is co-author of Strut 2 in Action by Mannng Publications. With his wife Mary Turner, he owns and works for Blackdog Software, Inc. Through working on this book has provided many satisfying moments, he has particularly enjoyed reading numerous specifications of the Java Community Process, as well as a variety of RFCs. While this might sound tedious to many, he is a devoted student of the more obscure forms of meticulous articulation that have arisen at the hands of those masters of terse precision-the engineers. Without them, the world would be vague. Read More Read Less