Eclipse Persistence Services (EclipseLink) BoF
Doug Clarke (Oracle Canada), Tom Ware (Oracle), Gordon Yorke (Oracle), Shaun Smith (Oracle)
Java · Birds Of A Feather
Tuesday, 19:30, 1 hour 15 minutes | Grand Ballroom E | 
Doug Clarke
Tom Ware
Gordon Yorke
Shaun Smith
Doug Clarke is a Director of Product Management for Oracle Application Server's Java Persistence solutions and the co-lead of the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink). Doug has extensive enterprise development, consulting, and educational field experience in the areas of object-relational persistence, data access, and systems integration. He brings together concrete experiences from projects of various sizes and industries with a practical approach to design, testing, and performance tuning.
Session and Keynote Speaking experience includes:
- Java One and Sun Tech Days
- Oracle Open World and Oracle Developer Days
- The Server Side: Symposium and Java In Action
- JAOO
- Java Forum, Stuttgart
- JAX
- SpringOne
- Colorado Software Summit
- EclipseWorld
Tom Ware is a Committer and Architecture Council member of Eclipse Persistence Services (EclipseLink). He is also one of the technical leads on the TopLink Essentials Project in Sun's GlassFish open-source project and a Technical Lead on Oracle TopLink. He has been working on Persistence related projects for 7 1/2 years. Prior to that, worked in a research group at a telecommunications company focusing on topics such as agent-based systems and integration of speech recognition technology into the product portfolio
Gordon Yorke currently a JPA 2.0 Expert group member, EclipseLink Architecture Committee member, a JPA RI TopLink Essentials technical lead and a lead on Oracle TopLink. Gordon has many years of front line experience in the ORM space.
Shaun Smith is Ecosystem Development Lead for the Eclipse Persistence Services Project (EclipseLink), a committer on the Eclipse Dali Java Persistence Tools and EMFT Teneo projects, and a product manager for Oracle TopLink. He's been building systems using object-relational mapping technologies for a decade in both Java and Smalltalk in the banking, telecommunications, and energy industries. Shaun's a frequent conference presenter on the topic of Java persistence.
