About the Authors
Masoud Kalali has been working on software development projects since 1998,
which gives him a broad perspective on software development in general and
changes in the software development landscape in the past 1.5 decades. Masoud
has experience with a variety of technologies (.NET, J2EE, CORBA, and COM+)
on diverse platforms (Solaris, Linux, and Windows). He has a masters degree in
Information Systems with a bachelor degree in Software Engineering.
Masoud has authored a fair number of articles and other types of material,
including several articles at Java.net and Dzone. He is the author of multiple
refcardz, published by Dzone, including but not limited to Using XML in Java
(
http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/using-xml-java) and Security
and GlassFish v3 (http://refcardz.dzone.com/refcardz/getting-started-
glassfish
) refcardz. Masoud is one of the founding members of NetBeans Dream
Team (http://wiki.netbeans.org/NetBeansDreamTeam) and a GlassFish
community spotlighted developer (https://glassfish.java.net/public/
developers.html
). Masoud is the author of GlassFish Security (http://www.
packtpub.com/glassfish-security/book
) that was published in 2010,
covering GlassFish v3 security and Java EE 6 security.
Masoud's main area of research and interest includes service-oriented architecture
and large-scale systems development and deployment. In his spare time he enjoys
photography, mountaineering, and climbing.
Masoud's Twitter handle is
@MasoudKalali if you want to know what he is up to.
I should acknowledge my family's support and encouragement as
well as Bhakti's patience with me during the course of developing this
book. Reviewers, including Anthony Dahanne, Jitendra Kotamraju,
and Arvind Maheshwari, played a vital role in developing this book
and deserve special thanks. At the end I should acknowledge the role
that the Packt Publishing team, including but not limited to Amey
Sawant, Sharvari Tawde, and Parita Khedekar, played in concluding
this project.
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