If your browser supported Java you'd be seeing me morph into a Rockhopper here!

Gene De Lisa

Caveat: To be honest I don't update these pages very often :(

I specialize in distributed Object Oriented software development, mentoring and training. I am currently the Chief Technology Officer with Rockhopper Technologies where I do a mixture of hands-on consulting (architecture, project management and programming), course development and training. My focus in on Enterprise Java (JEE aka J2EE). . I'm an internationally recognized expert on J2EE (really!). I've taught, consulted and mentored companies throughout North America, Europe, Australia and Asia (only 3 continents to go. I think it would be "cool" to work in Antarctica if anyone down there is looking for help). On a recent consulting assignment I traveled to Tokyo with the President and CTO (2 separate guys) of a wireless company to make presentations and demos (to potential customers) of using J2EE technologies serving Geocoded data to wireless devices. I've been building systems using Enterprise JavaBeans since early 1998. Before the books on J2EE came out I was the guy who taught EJB to the engineers of 4 of the top selling application servers!

I've been doing Object Oriented software development since 1986 in a variety of languages including C++, Smalltalk, Objective C, and since 1995, Java. I've used several different methods on various projects including Booch, OMT (Rumbaugh), and OOSE (Jacobson). More recently I've been involved with project that used RUP (more or less :) ), XP and more "agile" methods. Here is a photo of XP Pair Programming in action. My course material has used UML since 1996.

Since 1995 I've been doing Java development. I was the Java Manager at a well known J2EE application server vendor. For them I wrote several courses including the world's first (July, 1995!) "Java Programming" course, "Java GUI programming", "Advanced Java", a "Java Technical Briefing" and "Java Beans". They were still using these courses 5 years later! I have since written courses on many other advanced Java topics that have been licensed by several companies.

I had been doing a lot of development, mentoring, project management and training with Enterprise Java Beans (and the J2EE APIS) and using Java to create and parse/use XML/XSL documents. Actually I was teaching EJB in early 1998 before any books were released! I've been involved with a wide variety of projects involving the use of J2EE and XML with various Application servers such as BEA Weblogic, WebSphere, JBoss and the iPlanet appservers. Now I'm mostly using open source solutions such as the Spring Framework and Hibernate.I was also a frequent contributor to JavaWorld.

I have always had a special interest in distributed objects (CORBA initially) and the use of distributed Java. I have Sun's Java Certification for what that's worth.

If your browser is running the Applet on this page you may be interested to know that there are only 2 images loaded and it's written for Java 1.0.2. (This would have been a lot easier with Java 2) My Applet calculates the "in between" images at init time (using a PixelGrabber and some math) then does simple double buffering animation. You can click on the Applet to catch me somewhere between human and Rockhopper.

If you are looking for my ancient article on Motif drag and drop that was published in the now defunct "X Advisor", you can find a copy here.

I sometimes write to a blog. You can find it here

This page is written by hand in XHTML (using emacs) and also uses cascading style sheets. It looks good with IE5 and "just ok" with Navigator 4.x. In Netscape version 6.1 they finally got css right so it looks the same as with IE! I haven't tried the new Netscape. Mozilla works ok. If it looks awful on your browser please let me know!

Here is my hCard

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