Scott Oaks is an architect at Oracle Corporation, where he works on the performance of Oracle s middleware software. Prior to joining Oracle, he worked for years at Sun Microsystems, specializing in many disparate technologies from the SunOS kernel to network programming and RPCs to windows systems and the OPEN LOOK Virtual Window Manager. In 1996, Scott became a Java evangelist for Sun and in 2001 joined their Java Performance group--which has been his primary focus ever since. Scott also authored O Reilly s Java Security, Java Threads, JXTA in a Nutshell, and Jini in a Nutshell titles.