Rahul Sharma is the lead architect of the J2EE Connector architecture and a Senior Staff Engineer at the Java Software division of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Presently, he is the lead architect of the JAX-RPC (Java APIs for XML based RPC) 1.0. Rahul has been with Sun for the last five years. Rahul holds a computer engineering degree from the Delhi University, India, and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, UC Berkeley. Beth Stearns is the principal partner of ComputerEase Publishing, a computer consulting firm she founded in 1982. Among her publications are Java Native Interface in "The Java T...