Jason Hunter is Principal Technologist with Mark Logic and co-creator of MarkMail. He's probably best known as the author of Java Servlet Programming (O'Reilly Media). He's also an Apache Member and as Apache's representative on the Java Community Process Executive Committee he established a landmark agreement allowing open source Java. He's publisher of Servlets.com and X-Query.com, an original contributer to Apache Tomcat (and Apache Ant committer), the creator of the JDOM open source project, a member of the expert groups responsible for Servlet, JSP, JAXP, and XQJ API development, and was recently appointed Sun Java Champion. In 2003, he received the Oracle Magazine Author of the Year award. and in 2005, the JavaOne Outstanding Talk award. His largest audience was 15,000 at a JavaOne conference keynote.