About the Authors

Mark Denne is the Global Business Development Manager for Sun Microsystems' Java Centers. Prior to this he was the manager of the Java Center in New York City, responsible for a team of Java architects working with financial services, media, and retail clients. He was Sun's chief architect for Citibank Online, voted the world's best online banking site by Forbes Magazine in Spring 2001 and by Yahoo magazine in Spring 2002.

Dr. Jane Cleland- Huang is an Assistant Professor at DePaul University's School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems. Her research interests include Object-Oriented design and Requirements Engineering.