Know Top 8 People of Java

8.James Duncan Davidson
Founder and Inventor of Tomcat and Ant
During 1997–2001 he worked as Software engineer at Sun Microsystems.
during his time at Sun He created Tomcat Server.
It is still widely use in majorly of the Java based web applications,
He also created the Ant build tool.

 
 






7.Kent Beckn
JUnit and Test Driven development founder.
JUnit is simple and  easy testing framework, which is turned to de facto standard in testing Java-based applications. 
The JUnit and Test Driven Development has changed the way of coding Java and Testing the code.

 
 







6.Joshua Bloch
Creator of Java Collections Framework.
He has contributed lot in Java language features, including JDK 5.0 enhancements. 
Mainly know for the Collection Framework enhancements.
Best sellling book : Effective Java

 
 







5. Marc Fleury
Founder of JBOSS Server (2001)
It is an open source Java Web Application server, 
It is the de facto standard for Java-based Web applications deployement. 
He sold the JBoss to RedHat.

 







4. Craig Mcclanahan
Founder of Struts Framework.
Struts is a MVC pattern based framework for building a Web Application.
Struts was the most successful framework and was used in majorly all web applicaiton in early days.

 







3. Rod Johnson
Spring Framework Founder.
CEO of Spring Source.
(2002)Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development is his best selling book.

 
 







2. Gavin King
Hibernate Framework founder.
He has contributed a lot in the EJB 3.0 and JPA also.
He started to develop hibernate with colleagues in Cirrus Technologies as an alternative to EJB2-style beans or Entities.

 
 





1. James Gosling
Inventor of Java Language.
Originally he come with the idea of Java language and he created the Compiler and JVM for the Java language.