Ed Burns is currently a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he leads a team of Web experts from across the industry in developing JavaServer Faces Technology through the Java Community Process and in open source. He is the author of two books for McGraw-Hill: Secrets of the Rock Star Programmers (2008) and JavaServer Faces: The Complete Reference (co-authored with Chris Schalk, 2006).
Before working on JavaServer Faces, Ed worked on a wide variety of client and server-side Web technologies since 1994, including NCSA Mosaic for X, Mozilla, the Sun Java Plug-in, Jakarta Tomcat, the Cosmo Create HTML authoring tool, and the Web transport layer in the Irix operating system.