David Geary

A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces. David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF Expert Group that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework. Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and is currently an active contributor to Shale. David also provides consulting and training services for server-side Java and Ruby on Rails.