Tim Ward is a design and development lead for IBM s OSGi Applications support in WebSphere Application Server. He participates in the OSGi Alliance Core Platform and Enterprise Expert Groups, building specifications describing the use of enterprise technologies in an OSGi framework. Tim is also a member of the Project Management Committee for the Apache Aries project, and can often be found extolling the virtues of Enterprise OSGi at conferences like EclipseCon, Devoxx and Jazoon.