About the Author
Bilal Siddiqui is an Electronics Engineer, an XML consultant, and the founder of XML4Java.
com, a company focused on simplifying e-business. After graduating in 1995 with a degree in
electronics engineering from the University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore, he began
designing software solutions for industrial control systems. Later, he turned to XML and used
his programming experience in C++ to build web- and WAP-based XML processing tools,
server-side parsing solutions, and service applications. Bilal is a technology evangelist and
a frequently published technical author.
Bilal has been focusing exclusively on Java and XML-based open source tools and solutions
since 2006. He has extensively used popular open source products such as JasperReports,
ADempiere, Openbravo, and Eclipse. Bilal is a strong advocate of open source tools and is
engaged not only in designing solutions based on open source tools but also collaborating
with local universities in Lahore to train software and IT personnel in using open
source technologies.
Special thanks to my wife's patience, which was often put to the test while
I was working on this book. I'm also thankful for the support of Rainer
Maier—my friend and business partner, who was quite convinced that I
should just work on this book and sleep instead of working on our mutual
projects. Finally, I am also thankful to my colleagues, Tariq and Zia, for their
ideas to make this book more interesting and useful.
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