Thomas Smits has a degree in business administration and economics with a focus on business informationtechnology. His first contact with Java was 8 years ago. Since then, he's been eating, sleeping, and drinking Java. He did development projects for German Rail (Die Bahn), Brenntag, and other companies. Thomas authored a course on Java Web technology for Sun Microsystems and has done a lot of customer-specific training on Java. Since 2002 he is a development architect in the SAP NetWeaver team.
Developers using Java on
clients or in small
projects may not believe
that there is a
fundamental problem with
Java's robustness. People
working with huge
applications and
application servers
written in Java know
about the problem but may
doubt that it's possible ...