About the Technical Editor

Brian Leonard is a principal software engineer at Oracle, where he currently focuses on Oracle Solaris technologies. Prior to joining the Solaris team, Leonard spent four years evangelizing the NetBeans IDE. During that time the NetBeans community grew from thousands to hundreds of thousands of users, and Brian falls to sleep at night assuming he played some small part in fueling that growth.

Leonard began his career working as a systems engineer with EDS at Enron, but claims no responsibility for Enron’s ultimate demise. Always wanting to experience California, he moved from Houston to Silicon Valley in 1991, just in time to ride the dot-com wave. In 1997 Leonard joined the startup NetDynamics, which was pushing a new concept called an application server. In 1998 NetDynamics was acquired by Sun, and soon after, J2EE (now Java EE) was born. Leonard then spent the rest of his career working in the application server space before his boss suggested he consider joining the then left-for-dead NetBeans team. The rest, of course, is history. Leonard can be contacted at [email protected].

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