Dan Allen

TetraTech, Inc. | Manning | JBoss Committer

Presentations:

• (4300) It's evolution, baby! Bijection deplaces dependency injection
• (4302) Stacking the deck by integrating Spring beans and Seam components

Short bio

Dan Allen is a software consultant, author, and open source advocate. After 
graduating from Cornell University with a degree in Materials Science and 
Engineering in 2000, Dan became captivated by open source software and web 
development. He spent the first couple of years dabbling in PHP, but later 
discovered Linux and Java EE to be the ideal combination on which to build his 
professional career.

While logging his many years of experience with enterprise Java, Dan kept his 
eyes open for a robust web-application framework, the most coveted spot in a 
developer's toolbox. Upon reading about JBoss Seam, Dan immediately recognized 
its potential and selected it to fill this void, where it joined the numerous 
other Java technologies that Dan has mastered, including EJB 3, JSF (Facelets), 
Spring, JPA, Hibernate, Ant, Maven 2, and Groovy.

Excited about Seam, Dan decided to share his thoughts with the world. He is the 
author of Seam in Action, published by Manning Publications, a project which he 
picked up immediately after completing his three part series on Seam for IBM 
developerWorks. Dan is also a committer on the Seam project, an active 
participant in the Seam community, and a Java blogger.

Dan's continued success would not be possible without immense support from his 
wife, Sarah, with whom he lives in Laurel, MD (USA). You can keep up with Dan's 
development experiences by subscribing to his blog at www.mojavelinux.com.