Patrick Niemeyer (pat@pat.net) became involved with Oak while working at Southwestern Bell Technology Resources and experimenting with executable content in the TkWWW Web browser. He is currently a consultant in the areas of networking and distributed applications. Most recently, Pat developed components for the client/server migration at Edward Jones & Co. With the book done, Pat plans to spend the summer catching up on his life, working on his '66 Triumph Spitfire, and occasionally slipping into his alter-ego to fight crime and battle cartoonish super villainy. Joshua Peck (jbpeck@ooi.com) has worked as a World Wide Web designer and consultant. He is a founder of Open Object, Inc., a company that specializes in Java consulting, training, and development. Josh holds a degree in engineering from Washington University in St. Louis.