Dan Allen is a member of the Seam and Weld project teams at JBoss by Red Hat, member of the JSR-314 Expert Group (JSF 2.0), author of Seam in Action and a speaker at major industry conferences such as JavaOne, Devoxx, TSSJS, Jazoon and JSF Summit. His presentation at JavaOne 2009 earned him the JavaOne Rock Star award. But he's best known by colleagues for his passionate work using technologies that include Java frameworks (Seam, CDI, Weld, JSF, EJB 3, JPA, Hibernate, Spring), testing frameworks (JUnit, TestNG, Selenium), JavaScript and DOM scripting, CSS and page layouts, Maven 2, Ant, Groovy, and many others.