Craig L. Russell


Craig L. Russell 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 to lead the development of Object Relational Mapping. 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 Java Enterprise Edition Application Server.
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 member and officer of The Apache Software Foundation and a member of the Apache Incubator project responsible for bringing projects into Apache.

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