Leif Frenzel is Senior Architect at Innoopract, a specialist in Eclipse distribution and visual web application development tools. Currently his focus is on Yoxos, the Eclipse distribution. Leif is a recognized speaker at conferences and has published numerous articles related to Eclipse plug-in development. He has also contributed to Open Source projects that develop language support for functional programming languages and Team support for distributed revision control.

Sebastian Meyen ist Chefredakteur des Java Magazins seit dessen Gründung Anfang 1998 und des 2004 neu lancierten Eclipse Magazins. Er begleitet so die Java-Community journalistisch schon fast seit ihren Anfängen. Bevor er zum Software & Support Verlag kam, studierte er Philosophie in Frankfurt. Er ist zudem von Anfang für das Programm der JAX, W-JAX, Enterprise Architektur Konferenz und des Eclipse Forum verantwortlich.

Since September 2005 Ralph Müller represents the Eclipse Foundation in Europe. He is working to support the European Eclipse Eco-System, with a special interest in the Automotive and Embedded industry. Ralph has worked in the software industry as a computer scientist for over 20 years. After working for Object Technology International, Ralph's last position was with IBM where he spent 5 years as Solutions Architect for the European Automotive industry. Ralph lives close to Darmstadt, Germany.

Based in the worldwide development centre in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Edwin Schumacher is responsible for the technical direction of Compuware’s application development and integration products, including Compuware OptimalJ, an enterprise application development and integration environment that helps organizations adopting J2EE standards increase both developer productivity and Java application quality. An expert on Model-Driven, Pattern-Based Development, he is a respected speaker on the topics of Java and J2EE development, Web Services and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), business process automation (BPA) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA). He has worked for Compuware for almost 14 years in a variety of roles. Prior to that, Schumacher worked as an ERP product consultant and as a software developer for the Netherlands' largest market research organisation (TNO). Schumacher holds a software engineering degree. He can be reached at edwin.schumacher@compuware.com.

Dilip Thomas is Executive Director of S&S Media (India), an IT Media Services and Software Development Company, located in Bangalore, India. S&S Media (India) is the Indian subsidiary of Software & Support Verlag GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany. Dilip leads a team of motivated professionals involved in developing code, content, conferences and online portal solutions for clients looking to move their business up the value chain. Dilip is an avid FOSS and open standards enthusiast, working alongside the editorial teams of International PHP Magazine, JAX Magazine, SDA Asia Magazine, and SDA India Magazine. You can contact him at dthomas@software-support.biz.