Ed Burns is currently a consulting member of the technical staff atOracle America Inc., where he leads a team of Web experts from acrossthe industry in developing JavaServer Faces Technology through the JavaCommunity Process and in open source. He is the author of four books forMcGraw-Hill: Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers (2008), JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (co-authored with Chris Schalk, 2006),JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference (co-authored with ChrisSchalk and Neil Griffin, 2009), and Hudson Continuous Integration inPractice (co-authored with Winston Prakash, 2013).Before working on JavaServer Faces, Ed worked on a wide variety ofclient and server-side Web technologies since 1994, including NCSAMosaic for X, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plug-in, Jakarta Tomcat, the CosmoCreate HTML authoring tool, and the Web transport layer in the Irixoperating system from Silicon Graphics.Ed is a frequent speaker at international industry conferences, havingpresented many times at Oracle's JavaOne conference, given keynoteaddresses at the W-JAX and JAX conferences in Germany, the GlobalcodeDeveloper's Conference in Sao Paulo, Brazil, the JSF Days and CONFESSConferences in Vienna, Austria, the DOAG Conference in Nuremberg,Germany, and also has spoken at numerous Java User Group meetings andthe No Fluff Just Stuff Java Symposium. Further information and blogsmay be found at http://purl.oclc.org/NET/edburns/.