James Rhett Aultman

Contact Info

• All FOP-related email should go to raultman@fcci-group.com

• Personal correspondence or urgent inquiries should go to wlight@weatherlight.com

Professional Affiliations

• Developer of various XML-related technologies including the Jabber clients Swagger and JabberBots, both soon to be opensourced...until then they're available at http://www.weatherlight.com.

• Currently a developer of the FOP project, attempting to specialize in layout management with a focus on the resolution of over-constrained FO documents. Recent contributions to FOP include a system for breaking from infinite loops as a result of overconstrained FO documents, incorporated in FOP 0.20.5.
• Lurker of the jBoss development group...working on a memory profiling agent for jBoss that has, for the most part, been a backburner project.

• Industry partner for the Toyscouts (http://www.toyscouts.org), a student-run organization sposored by the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida.

• Employee of FCCI Insurance Group (http://www.fcci-group.com), serving as an applications software developer.

Recent Papers and Presentations

• "XML & IM: Instant Messaging in Jabber", XML Journal, Jul 2002.

• "Jini Distributed Network Services", Presented to the Suncoast Java Users' Group, Oct 2002.
• "Survey of AOP and the Interceptor Pattern", To be Presented to the Suncoast Java Users' Group, Jan 2003.
• "Runtime Performance Analysis With JVMPI" (Prospective Title), Java Developer's Journal, Feb 2003.

Hobbies and Side Interests

• I'm a fairly avid musician and have recorded a few samples as part of my experimenting with home recording. I'll include links when I have them posted online.
• I'm quite passionate about chess and do my best to keep current on the latest matches.
• I'm closely following the development of the GNU/Hurd kernel and am studying operating systems theory in general.
• Currently, much of my free time is spent trying to apply to graduate school in the hopes I can get some postgraduate education in operating systems.