Joe Pluta has designed distributed architectures for the midrange platform for over twenty years. Joe's company, Pluta Brothers Design, develops tools that allow iSeries users to incorporate emerging technologies seamlessly into their legacy systems, providing a direct path to new architectures. Joe moderates the JAVA400-L mailing list and is a member of IBM's JTOpen Core Team. You can find Joe's Weaving WebSphere column at www.mcpressonline.com, and he is a regular participant in mailing lists and newgroups on a wide range of topics surrounding the iSeries platform and Java in general.
Since Eclipse was introduced as the new tooling for the next generation of business applications, Joe has been using the product in a real application environment, performing testing and reporting bugs up to the release of the most recent version of the software. In this capacity, Joe has had close contact with Eclipse developers.
