About the Author

Vartan Piroumian is an independent consultant in his native California. He has 16 years of professional software engineering experience. He first started learning about object-oriented programming in 1980 using Lisp.

Vartan specializes in object-oriented technology, Java, and internationalization. He works with various companies in the San Francisco Bay and the Los Angeles areas. He works frequently with Sun Microsystems' Solaris and Java Software divisions, where he created the first Japanese localized version of the Hot Java Views MailView application.

Vartan also teaches object-oriented technology and Java courses for the University of California Santa Cruz in the Santa Clara Valley.

In his free time he enjoys athletics, photography, ...

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