Bill McCarty, Ph.D., is a professor of MIS and computer science at Azusa Pacific University. He has spent over 20 years developing distributed computing applications, and 7 years teaching advanced programming to graduate students. Dr. McCarty is also co-author of the well-received Object-Oriented Programming in Java, (see attached reader reviews). Luke Cassady-Dorion is a professional programmer with 8 years of experience developing commercial distributed computing applications, and specializes in Java/CORBA programming.