About the Author

Anghel Leonard is a senior Java developer with more than 12 years of experience in Java SE, Java EE, and the related frameworks. He wrote and published more than 20 articles about Java technologies and more than 100 tips and tricks. Also, he wrote two books about XML and Java (one for beginners and one for advanced). In this time, he developed web applications using the latest technologies on the market. In the past two years he has been focused on developing RIA projects for GIS fields. He is interested to bring onto the Web as much desktop as possible, therefore GIS applications represent a real challenge for him.