David Geary
BIO
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman (the co-author of Core Java), is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces. David has also written books on Advanced JSP, the JSP Standard Tag Library, and the Google Web Toolkit.
David is a member of the JSF 2 Expert Group, helping to define the next generation of JavaServer Faces. David was on the original JSF 1 Expert Group after working at Sun in the mid 1990s. Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, and was the 2nd Struts committer.
David is a professional speaker and presenter who spends more than 200 hours/year speaking at conferences, including the No Fluff Just Stuff tour (about 20 symposiums per year), Javapolis, The ServerSide Symposium, QCon, and JavaOne. David is a charismatic and enthusiastic speaker who gives presentations with style, flair, and is well-known for his sense of humor. Not only does David do a masterful job of making complicated technical topics easily understood, but his presentations are full of technical nuggets, sizzling demos, and are great fun to attend.
David has been nominated a JavaOne Rock Star three times, for his presentations in 2005, 2006, and 2009.
