Rahul Sharma is the lead architect of the J2EE Connector architecture and a Senior Staff Engineer at the Java Software division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Presently, he is the lead architect of the JAX-RPC (Java APIs for XML based RPC) 1.0. Rahul has been with Sun for the last five years. Rahul holds a computer engineering degree from the Delhi University, India, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Beth Stearns is the principal partner of ComputerEase Publishing, a computer consulting firm she founded in 1982. Among her publications are Java Native Interface in "The Java Tutorial Continued" (Addison-Wesley), “ The EJB Programming Guide” for Inprise Corporation, and “ Understanding EDT, ” a guide to Digital Equipment Corporation's text editor.

Tony Ng is a Staff Engineer with Sun Microsystems. He is currently the project lead of the J2EE SDK and Reference Implementation. He has designed and implemented a number of Java technologies, including the J2EE Connector Architecture, the Java Transaction Service, and the J2EE Blueprints. Tony has a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and a S.M. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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