About the Author
Peter A. Pilgrim is the 91st Oracle Java Champion, an independent contractor, a
professional software developer and designer. Peter is an honors degree graduate of
London South Bank University in 1990. He had already secured a Master's degree
course for September 1991, but then instead elected to live and work in Germany for
a few years in order to beat off the then, economic recession. He spent productive
years at a joint-venture company developing spectroscopic scientic software in
Fortran 77, C, Solaris, and X Windows.
After four years abroad Peter returned to London and continued his career in the
industry with more C, C++, and UNIX development. He then leapt at a chance to
get into investment banking with Deutsche Bank in 1998. It was at Deutsche Bank
a week after joining them that Peter discovered Java was the next best thing since
sliced bread, when a colleague dropped out of a programming Java training course.
As the substitute person, Peter realized this peculiar Java language and platform was
the future and the answer. Peter applied his studies to his day job and learnt Java
applets, then Java Swing and switched over to the server side with Java Servlets with
web applications involving the Struts framework.
In 2004, Peter created the JAVAWUG user group in London for the burgeoning
development community who were interested in web development on the Java EE.
What started as the Struts Networking Users Group in London quickly expanded to
lot of other areas. The JAVAWUG ran for six years until 2010. He built a reputation
for travelling to Java technology conferences in the US and Europe and being heavily
involved in the wider community. He spoke at several developer conferences
including QCon London, ACCU, Devoxx, Devoxx UK, and JavaOne. In 2007, Peter
was elected to the Sun Microsystems' Java Champions program.
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