Ed Burns is currently a consulting member of the technical staff at Oracle America Inc., where he leads a team of Web experts from across the industry in developing Enterprise Java through the Java Community Process and in open source. He is the author of four books for McGraw-Hill: Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers (2008), JavaServerFaces: The Complete Reference (co-authored with Chris Schalk, 2006), JavaServer Faces 2.0: The Complete Reference (co-authored with Chris Schalk and Neil Griffin, 2009), and Hudson Continuous Integration inPractice (co-authored with Winston Prakash, 2013). Ed loves speaking at IT conferences and has been doing so around the world since 2005.