James Strachan is a partner at Core Developers Network and has been writing enterprise software for over 20 years now with expertise in C, C++, Smalltalk, JavaTM, and, more recently, Groovy.
James is an Apache Member and one of the founders of the Apache Geronimo project (Apache's J2EETM container) as well as a founder of other open-source projects like Groovy, dom4j and Jaxen. He works on a variety of other open-source projects like PicoContainer, Axion, drools, Maven and Jakarta Commons.