About: Bruce Snyder is a veteran of enterprise software development and a recognized leader in open source software. Bruce has experience in a wide range of middleware technologies including Java EE, Event Driven Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture and Enterprise Service Buses. In addition to his role as a Principal Engineer for IONA Technologies, Bruce is also an Apache Member, a founding member of Apache Geronimo and a developer for Apache ActiveMQ, Apache Camel, Apache ServiceMix and Castor among other things.
Bruce serves as a member of various JCP expert groups and is a co-author of Professional Apache Geronimo and a co-author of Beginning Spring Framework 2 both for Wrox Press. Bruce is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences including the Colorado Software Summit, TheServerSide Java Symposium, Java in Action, JavaOne, ApacheCon, JAOO, SOA Web Services Edge, No Fluff Just Stuff and various Java Users Groups. Bruce lives in beautiful Boulder, Colorado with his family.