Stuart Dabbs Halloway is the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor (http://www.develop.com). Stuart is the author of Component Development for the Java Platform, part of the DevelopMentor book series and due to be published by Addison-Wesley in December 2001. From January 2000 to July 2001, Stuart wrote a monthly Tech Tips column for the Java Developer Connection. He has also written for JavaPro magazine. Stuart regularly speaks at industry events such as JavaOne. Prior to DevelopMentor, Stuart worked as a lead engineer and project manager, shipping successful projects for Prentice Hall, National Geographic, and Duke University's Humanities Computing Facility. He received his B.S. and M.P.P. from Duke University in 1990 and 1994, respectively.