Craig L. Russell (born January 6, 1949) is an American software architect and author. 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 New York City. He attended Glen Rock High School and graduated in 1966. He graduated from Harvard University 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

Object Relational Mapping Object may refer to: General meanings * Object (philosophy), a thing, being, or concept ** Object (abstract), an object which does not exist at any particular time or place ** Physical object, an identifiable collection of matter * Goal, an ai ...

. He initiated the creation of Java Data Objects, for which he was specification lead for

JSR 12 Java Data Objects (JDO) is a specification of Java object persistence. One of its features is a transparency of the persistence services to the domain model. JDO persistent objects are ordinary Java programming language classes ( POJOs); there ...

and

JSR 243 Java Data Objects (JDO) is a specification of Java object persistence. One of its features is a transparency of the persistence services to the domain model. JDO persistent objects are ordinary Java programming language classes ( POJOs); there ...

. He was the architect responsible for developing the implementation of Container Managed Persistence for Sun's Java Enterprise Edition

Application Server An application server is a server that hosts applications or software that delivers a business application through a communication protocol. An application server framework is a service layer model. It includes software components available to a ...

. Craig was the contributing editor for the Object Data Management Group Standard: 3.0 Java binding. He wrote "Bridging the Object-Relational Divide." Craig is a Director and Member of The

Apache Software Foundation The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is an American nonprofit corporation (classified as a 501(c)(3) organization in the United States) to support a number of open source software projects. The ASF was formed from a group of developers of the A ...

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)