About the Reviewers

Wendy Smoak is a member of The Apache Software Foundation and a committer on several open source projects, where she focuses on user support, documentation, and infrastructure. By day she is a Solutions Architect with G2iX, where her work centers around enterprise adoption of Apache Maven and related technologies.

Emmanuel Venisse has been developing and architecting J2EE applications for eleven years for bank, government, and holiday company projects. For the past three years, he's been working for Mergere/Devzuz with some other Maven contributors, like Brett and Deng, around a packaged Maven/Continuum/Archiva product Maestro. He has been working freelance for five years. For the last six years, he's been working, in his spare time, on Maven, Continuum, and Archiva projects as a core developer, and he's the Continuum project chair. He has contributed too to Maven: A Developer's Notebook (O'Reilly) and Better build with Maven (Exist). He lives in Versailles, France, with his wife Florence and two children.

I would first like to thank my wife, Florence, without whose love and support, my work on Apache projects and this book wouldn't have been possible. I'd also like to thank my children who have to see their dad working on his laptop instead of playing with them. Finally, I'd like to thank Brett and Deng for letting me help them on this book.

Carsten Ziegeler is senior developer and software architect for JEE and portal applications at Day Software. He is a member of the Apache Software Foundation and has been participating in several open source projects for more than fifteen years. Carsten is a member of several Apache communities and project management committees such as Cocoon, Felix, Sling, Excalibur, and Portals. In addition to this, Carsten frequently writes artcles, reviews books, and can be found presenting at various conferences.