About the Author

Xuekun Kou has been architecting, and developing enterprise Java applications since the early days of J2EE. He provides consulting services on Java and Java EE technology, and he also trains architects and developers on the Java technology, software engineering, and enterprise architecture. Xuekun has worked extensively with most of the well-known Java EE application server products, and his experience with GlassFish can be traced back to its ancestors – the iPlanet, Sun ONE, and Sun Java System Application Server series. He earned his Master's degrees from the Florida State University, and his Bachelor's degree from the University of Science and Technology of China.