William GrossoWilliam Grosso is a well-known speaker, Java SIG chair, and software architect currently residing in the San Francisco Bay area. He's been working with distributed systems since 1995, lectures for the University of California Berkeley Extension on Enerprise APIs, and is the principal engineer at Hipbone Inc. A former mathematician, he got into programming because it seemed like easy money. He got into distributed computing because he noticed that client-server gurus got the big bucks. And then he started programming in Java because he figured that's where the REAL money was. Having learned the error of his ways, he decided to write a book instead. When not programming or writing, he spends most of his time hiking, drumming, and trying to remember that it was he was about to say. Read More Read Less