Tom Marrs, a 25 year veteran in the software industry, is an Architect who specializes in Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). He designs and implements mission-critical business applications using the latest SOA, Java/EE, Ruby on Rails, AJAX, and Open Source technologies. Tom also spends a lot of time evaluating architecture, and training and mentoring developers on his projects.
Tom is the co-author of JBoss At Work: A Practical Guide (O’Reilly, 2005), has been published in java.net, Java Developers’ Journal, and has authored and co-authored several technical training courses. Tom speaks regularly at software conferences such as No Fluff Just Stuff about Open Source, SOA, Java/EE, a