Rod Johnson - Creator of Spring & Best Selling Author of J2EE without EJB

Rod Johnson is an enterprise Java architect with extensive experience in the insurance, dot-com, and financial industries. He was the J2EE architect of one of Europe's largest web portals, and he has worked as a consultant on a wide range of projects.

Rod has an arts degree majoring in music and computer science from the University of Sydney. He obtained a Ph.D. in musicology before returning to software development. He has been working with both Java and J2EE since their release and is actively involved in the Java Community Process as a member of the JSR-154 (Servlet 2.4) and JDO 2.0 Expert Groups. He is the author of several best-selling books, like "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development" (Wrox, 2002) and has contributed to several other books on J2EE since 2000. As founder of the Spring Framework (www.springframework.org), he speaks frequently at leading industry conferences.

Rod is currently the CEO of the Interface21, the international company behind leading enterprise open source products like the Spring Framework, AspectJ and Spring Web Flow and is currently based at the London office of Interface21.