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About the Authors 

Andreas Schaefer, was born in Liestal, Switzerland in 1964. He started as laboratory 

assistance for Norvartis, went back to high school and studied theoretical physics in Basel, 

Switzerland, where he graduated with a B.S. After working for over 10 years as software 

engineer he immigrated to Los Angeles, CA. Andreas currently serves as Senior Software 

Engineer for the JBoss Group LLC. 

Scott Stark , Ph.D., was born in Washington State of the U.S. in 1964. He started out as a 

chemical engineer and graduated with a B.S. from the University of Washington, and later a 

PhD from the University of Delaware. While at Delaware it became apparent that 

computers and programming were to be his passion and so he made the study of applying 

massively parallel computers to difficult chemical engineering problems the subject of his 

PhD research. It has been all about distributed programming ever since. Scott currently 

serves as the Chief Technology Officer of the JBoss Group, LLC. 

Marc Fleury, Ph.D., was born in Paris in 1968. Marc started in Sales at Sun Microsystems 

France. A graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, France s top engineering school, and an ex 

Lieutenant in the paratroopers, he has a master in Theoretical Physics from the ENS ULM 

and a PhD in Physics for work he did as a visiting scientist at MIT (X Ray Lasers). Marc 

currently serves as the President of the JBoss Group, LLC; an elite services company based 

out of Atlanta, GA. 

Bill Burke is one of the core developers of JBoss Clustering and gives regular talks at JBoss 

training courses and seminars on the subject.   Bill has over 9 years experience 

implementing and using middleware in the industry.  He was one of the primary developers 

of Iona Technology's, Orbix 2000 CORBA product and has also designed and implemented 

J2EE applications at Mercantec, Dow Jones, and Eigner Corporation.    

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