About the Author

Anghel Leonard is a senior Java developer with more than 12 years of experience in Java SE, Java EE, and related frameworks. He has written and published more than 50 articles about Java technologies and more than 500 tips and tricks for JavaBoutique, O’Reilly, DevX, Developer and InformIT. In addition, he wrote two books about XML and Java (one for beginners and one for advanced developers) for Albastra, a Romanian publisher; three books for Packt: JBoss Tools 3 Developer Guide, JSF 2.0 Cookbook, and JSF 2.0 Cookbook LITE; and two books for Apress: Pro Java 7 NIO 2, and Pro Hibernate and MongoDB. Currently, he’s developing web applications using the latest Java technologies (EJB 3.0, CDI, Spring, JSF, Struts, Hibernate, and so on). For the past two years, he has focused on developing rich Internet applications for geographic information systems.