About the Authors

Jeff McAffer co-leads the Eclipse RCP and Equinox OSGi projects and is CTO and cofounder of EclipseSource. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a coauthor of OSGi and Equinox (Addison-Wesley). He co-leads the RT PMC; is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC, the Tools Project PMC, and the Eclipse Architecture Council; and is a former member of the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Jeff is currently interested in all aspects of Eclipse components, from developing and building bundles to deploying, installing, and ultimately running them. Previous lives include being a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM; being a team lead at Object Technology International covering work in Smalltalk, distributed/parallel OO computing, expert systems, and meta-level architectures; and getting a PhD from the University of Tokyo. You can follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/jeffmcaffer.

Jean-Michel Lemieux has been a lead architect and developer on the Jazz project (jazz.net) since 1995, which has allowed him to put his RCP experience to work on a large-scale client-server application. On Jazz he is the SCM component lead. Jean-Michel has been a committer on the Eclipse Team and CVS components since their inception.

Chris Aniszczyk is the co-lead of the Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment (PDE) project and a Senior Software Engineer at EclipseSource. Chris tends to be all over the place inside the Eclipse community by committing on various Eclipse projects. He sits on the Eclipse Architecture Council, Planning Council, and the Eclipse Foundation Board of Directors. Chris’s passions are modularity, community management, tooling, and anything Eclipse. He’s always available to discuss open-source or Eclipse over a frosty beverage. You can read his blog at http://aniszczyk.org and follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/caniszczyk.