John serves as the resident guru for a number of jGuru's community-driven FAQs [http://www.jguru.com/*] and is a popular Java columnist around the Internet. His latest books are Learn Java with JBuilder 6* (Apress, 2002), and Mastering Java 2: J2SE v. 1.4* (Sybex, 2002).

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