Craig L. Russell (born January 6, 1949) is an American software architect and

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. He contributed to the book ''97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know.''

Biography

Early life and education

Craig L. Russell was born January 6, 1949, in

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. He attended

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and graduated in 1966. He graduated from

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in 1971 with a BA in Applied Mathematics.

Career

Craig joined

Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun for short) was an American technology company that sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services and created the Java programming language, the Solaris operating system, ZFS, the ...

to lead the development of

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. He initiated the creation of Java Data Objects, for which he was specification lead for JSR 12 and JSR 243. He was the architect responsible for developing the implementation of Container Managed Persistence for Sun's

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Enterprise Edition

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. Craig was the contributing editor for the

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Standard: 3.0 Java binding. He wrote "Bridging the Object-Relational Divide." Craig is a Director and Member of The

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and a member of the Apache Incubator project responsible for bringing projects into Apache. He served as Board Chair for the 2019-2020 term.

References

External links

*http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=12 JSR 12 *http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=243 JSR 243 {{DEFAULTSORT:Russell, Craig L. 1949 births Living people Glen Rock High School alumni Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences alumni Writers from New York City 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Mathematicians from New York (state)