About the Reviewers

Aristides Villarreal Bravo is a Java developer and a member of the NetBeans Dream Team and Java User Groups Leaders. He lives in Panama.

He has organized and participated in various national and international conferences and seminars related to Java, Java EE, NetBeans, NetBeans platform, free software, and mobile devices.

He writes tutorials and blogs about Java, NetBeans, and web developers. He has reviewed several books for Packt Publishing. He also develops plugins for NetBeans.

He specializes in JSE, JEE, JPA, Agile, and Continuous Integration. He shares his knowledge via his blog, which can be viewed at http://avbravo.blogspot.com. He is the CEO of JavScAz Software Developers.

Sebastian D'Agostino lives in Argentina. He earned his computer software engineer degree from the University of Buenos Aires (UBA). He has been developing with C, C++, and Java EE in a professional manner for 6 years. He worked for big multinational companies such as Oracle as well as participated in freelance work. He was involved in different projects pertaining to backend, middleware, frontend and even functional analysis. His frontend experience includes Struts, PrimeFaces, and AngularJS. Presently, he is working for Banco Industrial (Bind, Industrial Bank) and studying for master's in information technology and communications at Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE).

Daswanth Karuchola is currently working as a software developer with more than 8 years of relevant background in software development. He has knowledge of software development processes (such as Agile and Scrum) and practices (such as TDD), functional and object-oriented paradigms, the Java, C++, and C# programming languages, Java EE, and the Windows and Linux operating systems.

He is highly proficient in Java, JSF, PrimeFaces, and RichFaces. He would like to dabble in Hadoop and Cloud computing.

He has experience working with Java EE 1.4+ (JPA/JTA/JAXB/JSF/JSP/JDBC/JNDI/JMS/JAX-WS/JAX-RS/Servlets/Spring/Hibernate/Apache ActiveMQ/Apache CXF/Apache Lucene/Apache HBase/Infinispan/EhCache/Hazelcast/Websockets), MySQL, PostgreSQL, Eclipse, C++ Builder, MongoDB, Redis, and Oracle.

He specializes in software development, distributed systems, web applications, desktop application, rich Internet applications (RIA), cloud computing, databases, and NoSQL solutions.

Glauco Márdano is 24, has a degree in system analysis, and has been working with Java web development for about 3 years. His main interests are related to technology and finance. He likes to learn new subjects pertaining to his interests.

He is also the author of jMonkeyEngine 3.0 Cookbook, Learning Pentesting for Android Devices, and Learning Android Intents from Packt Publishing.

Daryl Mathison has been heavily involved in computers since he was in elementary school. He has been professionally developing software since 1998. He has used C, C++, Java, and Python to solve various software problems. He writes a blog about Java, which has been reposted in Java Coding Geeks several times. The subjects that he is current exploring are OSGi, Maven, and cloud computing.