C. E. Sharp (Chris)  IBM Software Group, Hursley Park, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 2JN, UK (sharpc@uk.ibm.com). Mr. Sharp is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the WebSphere organization within Software Group; he is a Master Inventor and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He works as a software architect on WebSphere product support for Web services and has extensive experience in business integration technologies and issues. For his work in the field of Web services, he received an IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement award in 2004. He led the team that developed the Business Integration for Games middleware, a prototype technology that integrates online games and e-business and that is available on the alphaWorks^® Web site. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

Martin Rowe  IBM Software Group, Hursley Park, Winchester, Hampshire, SO21 2JN, UK (mrowe@uk.ibm.com). Mr. Rowe is a software engineer at IBM's Hursley Laboratory and is currently working on the SCORE project, a document management system that supports compliance with governmental regulations in the life sciences. Prior to this he worked on the IBM Business Integration for Games project, in which he was responsible for developing the client-side APIs and the client connector and supporting Quake II™ integration efforts.