Biographical sketches of authors

Christina Lau   IBM Canada, Toronto Laboratory, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario L6G 1C7, Canada (electronic mail: clau@ca.ibm.com). Ms. Lau is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM Toronto Laboratory and is the development manager for the XML tools in WebSphere Studio Application Developer. Prior to working on XML tools, she worked on ObjectBuilder for the IBM Component Broker. Ms. Lau is a recognized expert in distributed object development and is the author of Object-Oriented Programming Using SOM and DSOM, Van Nostrand Reinhold Publishing Company, New York (1994).

Arthur Ryman   IBM Canada, Toronto Laboratory, 8200 Warden Avenue, Markham, Ontario L6G 1C7, Canada (electronic mail: ryman@ca.ibm.com). Dr. Ryman is a Senior Technical Staff Member at the IBM Toronto Laboratory and is the architect for the Web services tools in WebSphere Studio Application Developer. Before his work on Web services, he was the architect for VisualAge® for Java, focusing on servlets, JavaServer Pages, and the WebSphere Test Environment. Dr. Ryman is a member of the IBM Academy of Technology and an adjunct professor of computer science in the Faculty of Graduate Studies at York University in Toronto.