About the Authors

Sharon Biocca Zakhour is a principal technical writer on staff at Oracle Corporation and was formerly at Sun Microsystems. She has contributed to Java SE platform documentation for more than twelve years, including The Java™ Tutorial, Fourth Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2007), and The JFC Swing Tutorial, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley, 2004). She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, with a B.A. in computer science and has worked as a programmer, developer support engineer, and technical writer for thirty years.

Sowmya Kannan was previously a principal technical writer at Oracle Corporation and Sun Microsystems. She is currently the manager of the Java SE documentation team and has more than fifteen years of experience ...

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