Abe is a senior software architect at SolarMetric, and is the original author of Kodo JDO. He became interested in JDO while working in Research and Development at TechTrader, where he specialized in Object/Relational mapping, Object/XML mapping, and Java Enterprise technologies. Abe also has extensive experience with Java bytecode manipulation, and is the creator of the open source Serp Bytecode Toolkit. In the past, Abe was a founder of The Basement, a non-profit entity that creates web-based solutions for academia. Abe graduated with High Honors from Dartmouth College with a degree in Computer Science. Abe is a member of the JDO Expert Group, helping define the next version of the JDO specification. Abe is also a Luminary at JDOcentral.com, a consortium focused on supporting the JDO standard. Finally, Abe is the technical editor for a forthcoming book on Java Data Objects.