Kent Ka Iok Tong is the manager of the IT department of the Macau Productivity and Technology Transfer Center. With a master's degree in computer science from the New South Wales University, Sydney, Australia, and having won the "Macao Programming Competition (Open Category)" in 1992, Kent has been involved in professional software development, training, and project management since 1993. He is the author of several popular books on web technologies including Essential JSF, Facelets and Seam, Enjoying Web Development with Tapestry, Enjoying Web Development with Wicket, and Developing Web Services with Apache Axis 2.