He has been working with Java since 1997, and has more than 15 years experience in the IT industry. Ajit has served as JDJ's J2EE editor, was the founding editor of XML-Journal, and has been a frequent speaker at SYS-CON's Web Services Edge series of conferences. He is a frequent speaker at conferences. Most recently he has spoken at SOA China 2005 and at Web Services Edge 2005 East. He has published more than 75 articles.