Tom Purcell's 19-year IT journey has tracked the course of the industry from the glass house of the 80's, to the client-server of the 90's and on to the J2EE Enterprise applications of the new millennium. He has designed and developed applications on numerous platforms and has worked with Java technology extensively since he installed the first IBM mainframe JVM in 1997. Recently, he has helped engineer several successful J2EE applications in the accounting and travel industries. Tom leads the Delaware Valley BEA Users Group, has been published in Weblogic Developer's Journal and was a speaker at last year's JavaOne.