Biographical sketches of authors

Joel A. Farrell   IBM Software Group, One Charles Park, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 (electronic mail: joelf@us.ibm.com). Mr. Farrell is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Emerging Technologies group of the IBM Software Group. He joined IBM in 1981 in Endicott, New York, and has worked on large-scale operating systems, parallel and distributed computing, and formal methods in software development. Recently he has been involved in Internet technologies and is a member of IBM's core XML technology team. He is currently a member of the IBM Web Services architecture team. Mr. Farrell received his B.S. degree in computer science from Kansas State University in 1980 and his M.S. degree in 1985 from Syracuse University, also in computer science.

Heather Kreger   IBM Software Group, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Road, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (electronic mail: kreger@us.ibm.com). Ms. Kreger is a senior architect in the Emerging Technologies area of the IBM Software Group. She represented IBM as a member of the Java Management eXtensions (JSR0009) Expert Group. Her years in lead positions in network management, combined with her experience on the IBM Web server and WebSphere Application Server products, gives her unique insight into the problems and solutions for managing applications and e-business. She has contributed to the specification, reference implementation, and compatibility test suites for the JMX Reference Implementation and authored “Java Management Extensions for application management” in Vol. 40, No. 1, 2001, of the IBM Systems Journal. She was also involved in management issues with other standards bodies, including: The Open Group Management Program, the DMTF (Distributed Management Task Force) Application Management Work Group Chair, and WBEM (Web-Based Enterprise Management) JSR (Java Specification Request) Expert Group. Ms. Kreger is currently the lead architect for Web Services in Emerging Technologies, and recently authored the document, “Web Services Conceptual Architecture.” She chairs the IBM Web services architecture team, holds an associate position on the IBM AIM Architecture Board, and is the Specification Editor for JSR109: Implementing Web Services in the Enterprise being led by IBM.