This page contains informations about the current Batik developers and the features they are working on at the moment.

The following people are active Batik developers and are the project's commiters:

Thomas DeWeese (TD) -

Thomas.DeWeese@Kodak.com
Thomas DeWeese is a Senior Software Engineer at Eastman Kodak Company, in Rochester New York where he has worked for the Image Science Division's, image application development group since 1994. Thomas has made contributions to the imaging portions of the Java2D API, and was a major contributor to the Java Advanced Image API (version 1.0). Since then he has participated in the Jini Printing Working group and has recently become a member of Kodak's SVG Working Group team.

Bill Haneman (BH) -

bill.haneman@ireland.sun.com
Bill Haneman works for Sun Microsystems' Desktop Enabling Middleware group in Dublin, Ireland. His current technical focus is on 2D APIs and in printing and transcoding technologies, though he maintains an interest in the fate of the world as a whole. A twenty-year veteran of scientific programming and application development, he is a US expatriate who plays traditional music on the uilleann pipes.

Vincent Hardy (VH) -

vincent.hardy@eng.sun.com
Vincent is one of the founders of the SVG Batik project at Apache and he represents Sun in the W3C's SVG Working Group (his daytime job is to be a member of Sun's XML Technology Center). Vincent is the author of papers and a book on the Java 2D API. When he is not working on the Batik code, test or documentation, Vincent loves to write new sample files for the project because.... SVG is really, really, really fun: try it, you'll love it!

Stephane Hillion (SH) -

hillion@apache.org
Stephane is a research engineer at ILOG. His main interests are in programming languages and web standards. He wrote DynamicJava, a Java source interpreter, and the Apache Batik's DOM and CSS modules.

Dean Jackson (DJ) -

dean.jackson@cmis.csiro.au

Christophe Jolif (CJ) -

cjolif@ilog.fr Christophe Jolif is an R&D Software Engineer mainly working on the ILOG JViews Component Suite, the ILOG Java vizualisation framework. He has been working for ILOG since 1997, and is representing the company at the Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) W3C Working Group. He has implemented the SVG import and export features in ILOG JViews and is now working on the SVG Batik project at Apache.

Thierry Kormann (TK) -

tkormann@apache.org
Thierry is a research software engineer, at ILOG in Sophia Antipolis, France. Thierry has developed an SVG engine presented at the SVG BOF session at JavaOne 2000. Since then, he co-founded the Apache Batik project. His work is focused on the Graphics Vector Toolkit and the DOM bridge engine. Thierry has been programming in Java since the end of year 1996.

Emmanuel Tissandier (ET) -

tissandi@ilog.fr
Emmanuel Tissandier has been working for 10 years as a software engineer in object oriented environments. He started with the development of CASE tools at Rank Xerox and joined the visualization R&D team of ILOG in 1995. Since 1997, he has been the R&D Project Manager for the ILOG JViews Component Suite, a product for delivering two-dimensional structured graphics, cartography, diagrams, and Gantt charts in Java.

In addition, James Davidson and Stefano Mazzochi two Apache veterans who helped the Batik team start the project at Apache, also have commit access to the CVS repository.

The following people have contributed to Batik:

• Nicholas Talian - Contributed on gradients.
• Sheng Pei - Contributed on filters and the Regard tool.

The following table summarizes the areas of expertise of each commiter. It allows better coordination of both internal and external development efforts.