The Java Tutorial: A Short Course on the Basics, 4th Edition

Sharon Zakhour, the Java Tutorial team lead, has worked at Sun Microsystems as a senior technical writer for seven years. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in computer science and has worked as a programmer, developer support engineer, and technical writer for more than twenty years.

Scott Hommel is a technical writer on staff at Sun Microsystems, where he documents the Java Platform, Standard Edition. Since 1999, he has contributed to every major release of the JDK, mostly in the form of API spec clarifications and core release documentation.

Jacob Royal has an M.S. in IT and an M.B.A. in information systems. He has written administrator's guides, API references and programmer's guides, and has identified new tools and developed code and writing standards for various companies, including Lucent Technologies and Autodesk.

Isaac Rabinovitch is a freelance technical writer. He has written user manuals, programmer's guides, administrator's manuals, API references, release notes, and support documentation at Sun Microsystems, Borland, SGI, and many other companies.

Thomas Risser was educated in physics at Harvard (B.A.) and the University of California at Berkeley (Ph.D.). He has been a technical writer in the computer industry for fifteen years.

Mark Hoeber is a former senior technical writer at Sun Microsystems. He has worked as a technical writer for twelve years, focusing on documentation for software developers and system administrators.