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 The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley). He co-leads the RT PMC and is a member of the Eclipse Project PMC, the Tools Project PMC, and the Eclipse Architecture Council and 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 metalevel architectures; and getting a Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo.

Paul VanderLei is a partner at Band XI International. He has more than twenty-five years of software engineering experience with an emphasis on object-oriented design and agile practices. He is well known for his innovative yet straightforward engineering solutions to complex problems. After earning his M.S. in computer science from Arizona State University, he joined Object Technology International and worked on a wide range of Smalltalk-based systems. After OTI’s acquisition by IBM, Paul developed embedded Java applications and user interfaces for the automotive and medical industries as a founding member of IBM’s Embedded Java Enablement Team. He has been using OSGi in commercial applications for over ten years. He lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with his wife and four children.

Simon Archer has more than sixteen years of software engineering experience with an emphasis on object-oriented design, agile practices, and software quality. After earning his B.Sc. in computer science from the University of Portsmouth, UK, he worked as a Smalltalk developer at Knowledge System Corporation and later at Object Technology International. While at OTI in 2000, Simon began working with and teaching OSGi in areas such as telematics and RFID. Today he works for IBM Rational, using OSGi to build collaborative development tools for the Jazz Foundation project. He lives in Cary, North Carolina, with his wife and two children.