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Joe Sam Shirah is a principal and developer at conceptGO, which provides software products as well as on site and remote consulting and development services. Areas of expertise include J2EE, the AS/400, RPG, finance, inventory, and logistics, among others. Joe Sam is a recipient of the Java Community Award and the author of Java Internationalization Basics at developerWorks and the JDBC 2.0 Fundamentals short course at the Java Developer Connection. He is the moderator of the developerWorks Java filter forum, and manager for jGuru's JDBC, I18N, and Java400 FAQs. Joe Sam has a B.B.A. in Economics and a Master's degree in International Management.

     This project is dedicated to Thomas Jefferson, who so aptly described everyone's dream, and to The Beatles and Todd Rundgren, who knew the answer all along.

     Acknowledgements

     Special thanks are due to

• Paul Tremblett
• Robert Spector
• Marilyn de Queiroz
• Dave Landers
• Kimberly Bobrow Jennery
• Aidon Jennery

     Additional thanks to Holley Davis for invaluable assistance in setting up our site to support the example applications.