Richard Monson-Haefel is the author of Enterprise JavaBeans, 3rd Edition, Java Message Service and one of the world's leading experts and book authors on Enterprise Java. He is the lead architect of OpenEJB, an open source EJB container used in Apple Computer's WebObjects plateform, and has consulted as an architect on J2EE, CORBA, Java RMI and other distributed computing projects over the past several years.