Jason Brittain

Jason Brittain is a Senior Principal Software Engineer for Orbital Sciences Corporation, working at NASA's Ames Research Center on theKepler Space Telescope mission (http: //kepler.nasa.gov).

Jason is a co-author of Tomcat: The DefinitiveGuide, now in itssecond edition, and has written some web articles for O'Reilly'sOnJava.com web site.

Before joining the team on the Kepler mission, Jason was a SeniorSoftware Engineer at Symantec Corporation working on the BrightmailAntiSpam appliance product line's control center web application.

Jason's specialties include Java software development, Tomcat webapplication development and deployment, scalability and faulttolerance, and Apache Ant build systems, and Linux systemadministration. He has contributed to many Apache Jakarta projects, and has been an active open source software developer for severalyears.