Source: http://www.mkyong.com/featured/top-8-java-people-you-should-know/
Here are the top 8 Java people, they’re created frameworks, products,
tools or books that contributed to the Java community, and changed the
way of coding Java.
P.S The order is based on my personal priority.
8. Tomcat & Ant Founder
James Duncan Davidson,
while he was software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997–2001), created
Tomcat Java-based web server, still widely use in most of the Java web
projects, and also Ant build tool, which uses XML to describe the build
process and its dependencies, which is still the de facto standard for
building Java-based Web applications.
7. Test Driven Development & JUnit Founder
Kent Beck,
creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software
development methodologies. Furthermore, he and Erich Gamma created
JUnit, a simple testing framework, which turn into the de facto standard
for testing Java-based Web applications. The combine of JUnit and Test
Driven Development makes a big changed on the way of coding Java, which
causes many Java developers are not willing to follow it.
6. Java Collections Framework
Joshua Bloch,
led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features,
including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java
Collections Framework. In June 2004 he left Sun and became Chief Java
Architect at Google. Furthermore, he won the prestigious Jolt Award from
Software Development Magazine for his book, “Effective Java”, which is
arguably a must read Java’s book.
5. JBoss Founder
Marc Fleury,
who founded JBoss in 2001, an open-source Java application server,
arguably the de facto standard for deploying Java-based Web
applications. Later he sold the JBoss to RedHat, and joined RedHat to
continue support on the JBoss development. On 9 February 2007, he
decided to leave Red Hat to pursue other personal interests, such as
teaching, research in biology, music and his family.
4. Struts Founder
Craig Mcclanahan,
creator of Struts, a popular open source MVC framework for building
Java-based web applications, which is arguably that every Java developer
know how to code Struts. With the huge success of Struts in early day,
it’s widely implemented in every single of the old Java web application
project.
3. Spring Founder
Rod Johnson,
is the founder of the Spring Framework, an open source application
framework for Java, Creator of Spring, CEO at SpringSource. Furthermore,
Rod’s best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002)
was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE.
2. Hibernate Founder
Gavin King,
is the founder of the Hibernate project, a popular object/relational
persistence solution for Java, and the creator of Seam, an application
framework for Java EE 5. Furthermore, he contributed heavily to the
design of EJB 3.0 and JPA.
1. Father of the Java programming language
James Gosling,
generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language in
1994. He created the original design of Java and implemented its
original compiler and virtual machine. For this achievement he was
elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. On April
2, 2010, he left Sun Microsystems which had recently been acquired by
the Oracle Corporation. Regarding why he left, Gosling wrote on his blog
that “Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest
would do more harm than good.”
