Biography: Josh Long

Josh Long is the Spring developer advocate. Josh is the lead author on Apress’ Spring Recipes, 2nd Edition, O'Reilly's "Getting Started with Spring Roo," and Manning's "Cloud Foundry in Action." and a SpringSource committer and contributor. When he's not hacking on code for (Spring Integration, Spring Batch, Spring MVC, Activiti, and much more), he can be found at the local Java User Group or at the local coffee shop. Josh has been a speaker at numerous conferences, worldwide, including JFokus, JAX, SpringOne2GX, OSCON, JavaZone, Geecon, Java2Days, Vaadin and Mongo Dev Days, and numerous others. Josh likes solutions that push the boundaries of the technologies that enable them. His interests include scalability, BPM, grid processing, mobile computing and so-called "smart" systems. He blogs at springsource.org, blog.springsource.org or joshlong.com.