Richard Monson-Haefel is a Sr. Analyst for Burton Group a technical analyst company. He has been consulting in enterprise Java since 1996.Before working at Burton Group, Richard served on the JCP Executive Committee which oversees the JSRs (specifications) developed for the J2SE and J2EE platforms. He also served on the J2EE 1.4 (JSR-151) and EJB 2.1 (JSR-153) and EJB 3.0 (JSR 220) expert groups for the Java Community Process.
Richard was a founder of the Apache J2EE Application Server Project (Geronimo) and the OpenEJB project - an open source EJB container. Richard's proudest achievement was instigating JSR-241, The Groovy Language Specification.