Jon Mountjoy
Jon Mountjoy has worked with J2EE technologies since their inception and has worked with WebLogic in particular for a number of years. He is employed as a product development manager at a firm specializing in risk management, and also holds posts training and consulting in J2EE and WebLogic technologies. His inter-ests lie in applying enterprise Java technologies, semantics, and the behavior of languages and virtual machines
Avinash Chugh
Avinash Chugh is presently working as technical lead for a California-based start-up building working-capital management software for leading component, contract, systems manufacturing, and distribution companies. He has over three years experi-ence with J2EE technologies, primarily on WebLogic Server. Avinash holds a post-graduate degree in computer applications from Delhi University.
The images on the cover of WebLogic: The Definitive Guide are sand stars. The sand star is a starfish whose main defining feature is the spines that cover the sides of its legs, which differ from the suction cups that most starfish have. The sand star uses these spines to travel. It is chiefly nocturnal and tends to bury itself in sand in daylight hours. Its spines are helpful for allowing it to burrow into and move quickly throughout this sandy environment. The sand star swallows its food whole. Its diet consists of snails, sea urchins, seaweed, other starfish and sand stars, and any dead fish it can find.It often feeds off other creatures it finds buried in the sand alongside it.