Top 8 Java People You Should Know
Here are the top 8 Java people, they’re created frameworks, products, tools or books that contributed to the Java community, and changed the way of coding Java.
P.S The order is based on my personal priority.
8. Tomcat & Ant Founder
James Duncan Davidson, while he was software engineer at Sun Microsystems (1997–2001), created Tomcat Java-based web server, still widely use in most of the Java web projects, and also Ant build tool, which uses XML to describe the build process and its dependencies, which is still the de facto standard for building Java-based Web applications.
Related Links
- James Duncan Davidson Twitter
- James Duncan Davidson Wiki
- James Duncan Davidson personal blog
- Apache Ant
- Apache Tomcat
7. Test Driven Development & JUnit Founder
Kent Beck, creator of the Extreme Programming and Test Driven Development software development methodologies. Furthermore, he and Erich Gamma created JUnit, a simple testing framework, which turn into the de facto standard for testing Java-based Web applications. The combine of JUnit and Test Driven Development makes a big changed on the way of coding Java, which causes many Java developers are not willing to follow it.
Related Links
- Kent Beck Twitter
- Kent Beck Wiki
- Kent Beck Blog
- JUnit Testing Framework
- Extreme Programming Wiki
- Test Driven Development Wiki
News & Interviews
- Kent Beck: “We thought we were just programming on an airplane”
- Interview with Kent Beck and Martin Fowler
- eXtreme Programming An interview with Kent Beck
Kent Beck Books
- Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition)
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
- JUnit Pocket Guide
6. Java Collections Framework
Joshua Bloch, led the design and implementation of numerous Java platform features, including JDK 5.0 language enhancements and the award-winning Java Collections Framework. In June 2004 he left Sun and became Chief Java Architect at Google. Furthermore, he won the prestigious Jolt Award from Software Development Magazine for his book, “Effective Java”, which is arguably a must read Java’s book.
Related Links
News & Interviews
Joshua Bloch Books
5. JBoss Founder
Marc Fleury, who founded JBoss in 2001, an open-source Java application server, arguably the de facto standard for deploying Java-based Web applications. Later he sold the JBoss to RedHat, and joined RedHat to continue support on the JBoss development. On 9 February 2007, he decided to leave Red Hat to pursue other personal interests, such as teaching, research in biology, music and his family.
Related Links
News & Interviews
- Could Red Hat lose JBoss founder?
- JBoss founder Marc Fleury leaves Red Hat, now what?
- JBoss’s Marc Fleury on SOA, ESB and OSS
- Resurrecting Marc Fleury
4. Struts Founder
Craig Mcclanahan, creator of Struts, a popular open source MVC framework for building Java-based web applications, which is arguably that every Java developer know how to code Struts. With the huge success of Struts in early day, it’s widely implemented in every single of the old Java web application project.
Related Links
News & Interviews
3. Spring Founder
Rod Johnson, is the founder of the Spring Framework, an open source application framework for Java, Creator of Spring, CEO at SpringSource. Furthermore, Rod’s best-selling Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (2002) was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE.
Related Links
News & Interviews
- VMware.com : VMware to acquire SpringSource
- Rod Johnson : VMware to acquire SpringSource
- Interview with Rod Johnson – CEO – Interface21
- Q&A with Rod Johnson over Spring’s maintenance policy changes
- Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development: Interview with Rod Johnson
Rod Johnson Books
- Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development (Programmer to Programmer)
- Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB
2. Hibernate Founder
Gavin King, is the founder of the Hibernate project, a popular object/relational persistence solution for Java, and the creator of Seam, an application framework for Java EE 5. Furthermore, he contributed heavily to the design of EJB 3.0 and JPA.
Related Links
News & Interviews
- Tech Chat: Gavin King on Contexts and Dependency Injection, Weld, Java EE 6
- JPT : The Interview: Gavin King, Hibernate
- JavaFree : Interview with Gavin King, founder of Hibernate
- Seam in Depth with Gavin King
Gavin King Books
1. Father of the Java programming language
James Gosling, generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language in 1994. He created the original design of Java and implemented its original compiler and virtual machine. For this achievement he was elected to the United States National Academy of Engineering. On April 2, 2010, he left Sun Microsystems which had recently been acquired by the Oracle Corporation. Regarding why he left, Gosling wrote on his blog that “Just about anything I could say that would be accurate and honest would do more harm than good.”
Related Links
News & Interviews
- Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling
- Interview: James Gosling, ‘the Father of Java’
- Developer Interview: James Gosling
Please feel free to share your personal opinion.
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Nice to see these great people who contributed the Java what we have today.. Its very motivating to know these people. I am still in the begging stage of learning this great language. Please guide me to be a great Java programmer. And you are also great man and i mean it >>! Thanks
Gavin King is really cool..
One Day my photo will be posted in top-9 list…
surely ill assure….
Look forward it
HI Mkyong, thanks for showcasing Gods of Java Programming in a great article.
A different kind of blog post but I like it . glad to know about these greats though I was familiar with most of them its good to get all links together, in my opinion James Gosling should be in 1st rather than 10 if you are talking about java.
Where you saw the #10 people
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Is the order right? IMHO James Duncan Davidson deserves better spot than 8, and certainly before say Gavin or Kent.
Hi everybody,
They are Top 8 Most wanted People in the world,
Pls Find and kill them.
¯\_(?)_/¯
good work friend………………………
I too want to be in this list
Gavin King – CDI !
Also whoever invented maven should be held on the same grounds as whoever invented ant. Avoid these guys in all cases
You are missing two people. One is Doug Lea (who wrote Java Concurrency Package) and a new rising star, kohsuke kawaguchi, Hudson inventor.
Thanks for the Doug Lea, i do not know he wrote the concurrency package. Hudson, a great CI… indeed need to be noted as well, will update the list soon…
You forgot Neal Gafter
ya, he is a great guy as well, “co-designed and implemented the Java language features in releases 1.4 through 5.0″.
Great list BUT :
- ANT is not limited to building WEB applications
- same thing for JUnit which is not limited to WEB applications testing
- “award-winning Java Collections Framework” : are you sure the collection framework won awards ?
- “[Struts is] widely implemented in every single of the old Java web application project” : this is wrong, I know many OLD java web applications which directly use JSP & servlets.
- “James Gosling, generally credited as the inventor of the Java programming language” : “generally credited” ? Does this mean someone else claims to have invented the language ?
Hi, thanks for your suggestion,
Q : Are you sure the collection framework won awards ?
A : I didn’t attend the award ceremony, but it’s widely published in many articles, for example,
http://java.sun.com/developer/Books/effectivejava/
Q : This is wrong, I know many OLD java web applications which directly use JSP & servlets.
Ya, indeed, some ancient projects are pure JSP & servlets, but the Struts is still the most implemented framework in the world.
Q : Does this mean someone else claims to have invented the language ?
A : At least the statement is widely acceptable in the world wide.
Sometime, we have to accept the perfect imperfection.
I will benext one in the list
Really !. All the best. Hurray
#2 Martin Fowler
Eric Evans
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