Gary specializes in building enterprise applications on technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, JPA, JSF, Portlet, AJAX, and OSGi. He has been using the Spring framework in his projects for five years, since Spring version 1.0. Gary has been an instructor of courses on enterprise Java, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, and agile development. He has written a series of Spring and Hibernate tutorials as course materials, parts of which are open to the public, and they're gaining popularity in the Java community. In his spare time, he enjoys playing tennis and watching tennis competitions.

In his function as the Spring Developer Advocate for SpringSource, he focuses on growing and enriching the community around the Spring platform.

Josh lives in sunny southern California with his wife Richelle. He maintains a blog at www.joshlong.com and can be reached via e-mail at [email protected].

Additionally, he writes articles on emerging technologies for various content networks in this same space, which include Oracle Technology Network, DZone, and his own blog at www.WebForefront.com.