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ThoughtWorks Inc.
 Neal Ford is an senior application architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, courseware, video/DVD presentations, and author of the books Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques, JBuilder 3 Unleashed, and Art of Java Web Development. He is also the editor and a contributor to No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology : The 2006 Edition and No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology Volume 2: The 2007 Edition. His primary consulting focus is the building of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developers conferences worldwide.
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Chris is an Eclipse committer at IBM Lotus who focuses on OSGi-related development. His primary focus these days is improving Eclipse\'s Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) and spreading the Eclipse love inside of IBM\'s Lotus organization. Chris lives and breathes Eclipse through evangelizing about Eclipse in his blog (and various other publications). He also regularly attends conferences and universities to give presentations about Eclipse. He is a committer on three Eclipse projects: PDE, ECF, EMFT. In the Eclipse community, Chris is responsible for maintaining the public forum known as PlanetEclipse and growing Eclipse's IRC presence.
Thilo Frotscher is a software architect specialized in Enterprise Java, Web services and XML. Working as a freelancer, Thilo spends most of the year contributing to the projects of his international clients, as an architect, senior developer and consultant. He also delivers training, teaching both Java and Web Service technology. Thilo is a frequent speaker at international technical conferences, and has written numerous articles for software development magazines. He is one of four authors of the German book "Java Web Services with Apache Axis" and is currently working on a new book on Apache Axis2.