Biographical note

Richard M. Reese holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Texas A & M University and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering and Physics at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas. In addition to his experience in academia, Richard has over 17 years experience in industry including operating system development at GTE Automatic Electric Labs and at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, where he supervised a tool development group and oversaw various research and development projects. Prior to his industrial experience he served four years in the United States Air Force. Richard has been involved with Java since 1996 and is a certified Java SE 7 Associate Programmer. He has worked as consultant/instructor of software languages in private and public classes providing him with a variety of insight into industry applications. He has published numerous papers and has developed courseware for a variety of topics including advanced Java technologies. He has also written the EJB 3.1 Cookbook and Java 7 New Features Cookbook for Packt Publishing.