Luca Masini was born in Florence in 1971. He is a senior software engineer and
web architect. He has been heavily involved from the first days in the Java world as
a consultant for the major Italian banks and firms, developing integration software,
and as technical leader in many of the flagship projects. He worked for adoption of
Sun's J2EE standard in an envinroment where COBOL was the leading language,
and then he shifted his eyes toward open source, in particular IoC containers, ORM
tools, and UI frameworks. As such he adopted early products like Spring, Hibernate,
and Struts, giving customers a technlogical advantage. During last year he fell in love
with GWT (of course !!) and he had to master a new project all done with Oracle's
ADF Faces and JDeveloper as Visual IDE