Gordon Dickens is an instructor/mentor/consultant for Chariot Solutions chariotsolutions.com with experience in the IT consulting for over 15 years. Gordon"s background includes presenting at conferences and user groups on Spring, Groovy & Grails, with experience developing Spring, Hibernate, Grails, Roo and OSGi applications.

Gordon blogs at technophile.gordondickens.com and actively tweets open source tips at twitter.com/gdickens. Gordon is a contributor to Spring Roo in Action manning.com/rimple and very active in the Spring Framework, Roo, Spring Integration and Spring Batch projects. He currently teaches Maven and Spring as a Certified Spring Instructor by SpringSource.