ApacheCon US 2008 Speaker

Craig L. Russell


Craig Russell is a senior staff engineer at Sun Microsystems. He is specification lead for Java Data Objects (JSR 12 and 243) and leads the implementation team for its reference implementation and technology compatibility kit. He is the architect of the Container Managed Persistence component of the J2EE Reference Implementation and Sun Java System Application Server. Craig is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, the chair of the Apache OpenJPA Project Management Committee, and a member of the Apache Incubator project responsible for bringing projects into Apache.