<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!-- This file contains a list of Castor contributors -->
<document url="http://castor.codehaus.org/contributors.xml">
  <properties>
    <title>People who have supported the Castor project</title>
    <abstract>
       General information about the people that have supported the
	   Castor project over the time.
    </abstract>
    <status>Final</status>
  </properties>
  <body>
    <title>Committers, contributors et alias</title>
    <header>

		<p>This page lists all people who have gone the extra mile and
		   supported Castor in one way or the other, including committers,
		   contributors, people who have contributed to the projedt's
		   documentation and people who advanced the project by providing us
		   with valuable feedback.</p>

		<p>If you would like to get involved, the first step is to join the
		   <a href="lists.html">mailing lists</a>.</p>

		<p>We kindly ask to <b>not send us emails privately</b> (e.g. asking for
           support). We are non-paid volunteers who help out with the project and
           we do not necessarily have the time or energy to help people on an
           individual basis.</p>

		<p>Instead, we have setup <url href="lists.html">mailing lists</url> which
           often contain hundreds of individuals. The benefit of using mailing lists
           over private communication is that it is a shared resource, where others
           can also learn from your messages (whether problem description, advice,
		   or common mistakes), and as a community we all grow together.</p>

		<p>In addition, use of mailing lists enables us to maintain
		   searchable <a href="http://archive.castor.codehaus.org">archives</a>
		   of these mailing lists, that cover a vast range of questions and
		   answers related to the use of Castor. We simply cannot overstate
		   the importance of such archives.</p>

		<contributors>

  <!-- PLEASE KEEP THIS FILE ASSORTED ACCORDING TO SECTIONS -->

  <!-- ********** -->
  <!-- COMMITTERS -->
  <!-- ********** -->

  <!--
      PLEASE KEEP THIS SECTION (COMMITTERS) SORTED BY ORDER OF WHO COMMITS
      MOST FREQUENTLY. Quesitons are sent more often to those people at the top
      of this list.   -->


  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Guttmann" given="Werner" />
    <email>werner.guttmann@gmx.net</email>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <company id="anecon" />
    <description>
       Current Castor project lead; JDO enhancements including distributed caches, 
       TransactionManagerFactory API, support for polymorphism, Spring integration,
       the API for JDBC parameters and much more.
    </description>
    <status>active</status>
    <since>
      <date>Oct. 2003</date>
    </since>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Visco" given="Keith"/>
    <email>keith@kvisco.com</email>
    <project>XML</project>
    <description>
      Intial Castor XML author and Castor Project Lead until 1.0.2.
      Responsible for all things wrong in Castor XML.
      Enhancements, bug fixes, documention, etc.
   </description>
   <status>active</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
     <name surname="Joachim" given="Ralf" />
     <email>ralf.joachim@syscon-world.de</email>
     <project>JDO</project>
     <company id="syscon"/>
     <description>
        Various bug fixes, enhancements and refactorings at almost all
		parts of JDO including major refactoring of JDO test framework.
     </description>
    <status>active</status>
    <since>
      <date>Dec. 2004</date>
    </since>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Fawcett" given="Andrew"/>
    <email>Andrew.Fawcett@coda.com</email>
    <company id="coda"/>
    <project>XML</project>
    <description>XML enhancements.</description>
    <status>inactive</status>
    <since>
      <date>Apr. 2005 (again)</date>
    </since>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Snyder" given="Bruce"/>
    <email>bruce DOT snyder AT gmail DOT com</email>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <description>
        Enhancements, bug fixes, documention, etc. (JDO project lead 
        from 0.9 to 0.9.5)
    </description>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Fuchs" given="Martin" />
    <email>martin-fuchs@gmx.net</email>
    <company id="mentopolis"/>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
    <description>
       JDO bug fixes and enhancements including JdoConfFactory;
       test cases; Oracle questions
    </description>
    <since>
      <date>Dec. 2004</date>
    </since>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Block" given="Gregory" />
    <email>gblock@ctoforaday.com</email>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
    <company id="ctoforaday"/>
    <description>
       Bugfixes/enhancements, stress testing, performance testing, tester of
       unusual 'runtime' environments, (Hashbelt) cache implementations et alias.
    </description>
    <since>
      <date>Dec. 2004</date>
    </since>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Hugubakken" given="Stein" />
    <email>dulci@start.no</email>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <description>
       Performance enhancements, core refactoring  and much more.
    </description>
    <status>inactive</status>
    <since>
      <date>Dec. 2004</date>
    </since>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Blandin" given="Arnaud"/>
    <email>blandin@intalio.com</email>
    <company id="intalio"/>
    <project>XML</project>
    <description>Responsible for all the boring stuff that Keith doesn't want to do anymore.
    Causes immense stress for the other contributors. Introduces bad franglish into the documentation.</description>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Yip" given="Thomas"/>
	<email>tomtactic-web@yahoo.com</email>
    <company id="leafsoft"/>    
    <project>JDO</project>
    <description>
      Lead developer of Castor JDO from late v.0.8 to early v.0.9.
      Enhancements to the lock model, LRU cache, lazy loading, multi-pk, m-n support, etc; bugs fixes, test cases, and documentation.
    </description>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Arkin" given="Assaf"/>
    <email>arkin@intalio.com</email>
    <company id="intalio"/>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <description>
       The initial author of Castor JDO.
       Formally responsible for all things wrong in JDO, and all bugs in Mapping API.
       (non-active)
    </description>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Gignoux" given="Sebastien"/>
    <email>gignoux@intalio.com</email>
    <description>XML Mapping enhancements, bug fixes, documentation and some testing.</description>
    <project>XML</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Thielen" given="Thorsten"/>
    <email>thorsten@ipcon.de</email>
    <description>Enhancements to OQL.</description>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Sahuc" given="Sebastien"/>
    <email>ssahuc@intalio.com</email>
    <company id="intalio"/>
    <description>Testing for Oracle and Castor XML.</description>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Wolpert" given="Ned"/>
    <email>wolpert@codeheadsystems.com</email>
    <company id="codehead"/>
    <description>JDO enhancements, refactoring and PostgreSQL integration.</description>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Guessant" given="Mickael"/>
    <email>mickael.guessant@fisystem.com</email>
    <description>JDO enhancements, help on the mailing list.</description>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Nitz" given="Oleg"/>
    <email>on@ibis.odessa.ua</email>
    <company id="ibis"/>
    <description>Key generators, stored procedures, Sybase 11/12 support and
     a variety of other design contributions.</description>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Maucherat" given="Remy"/>
    <email>remm@apache.org</email>
    <company id="sun"/>
    <description>XML enhancements, lots of testing.</description>
    <project>XML</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Karpenstein" given="Nissim"/>
    <email>nissim@nksystems.com</email>
    <company id="nksystems"/>
    <description>Develops the OQL query parser.</description>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Committer">
    <name surname="Fritz" given="Markus"/>
    <email>mfritz@justis.de</email>
    <company id="justis"/>
    <description>JDO bugfixes, enhancements.</description>
    <project>JDO</project>
    <status>inactive</status>
  </contributor>



  <!-- *********** -->
  <!-- CONTRIBUTOR -->
  <!-- *********** -->

  <!-- PLEASE KEEP THIS LIST SORTED ALPHABETICALLY
       It makes it easier to maintain.
  -->

  <!-- Last names begin with A-D -->

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Ackley" given="Keith"/>
    <email>keith.ackley@eds.com</email>
    <company id="eds"/>
    <description>Added support for marshalling the DOCTYPE to the marshaller.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Adamo" given="Vince" />
    <email>vadamo@vignette.com</email>
    <company id="Vignette" />
    <description>Contributed API to support cache flushing/eviction.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Arriaga" given="Santiago"/>
    <email>santiago@catnet.com.mx</email>
    <description>Added Informix and Hypersonic SQL to the list of supported databases.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Ballanger" given="Andrew" />
    <email>AWBALLAN@smumn.edu</email>
   <description>An improvement for generated SQL statement syntax</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Bate" given="Steve" />
    <email>mail@technoetic.com</email>
    <description>Fixes to JDO</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Bates" given="Simon" />
    <email>simon.bates@utoronto.ca</email>
    <description>Proposed patch for bug 1200</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Beauregard" given="Michael" />
    <email>michael_beauregard@transcanada.com</email>
    <description>Patch for Ant build descriptor to construct the CLASSPATH.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Bechtel" given="Patric" />
    <email>bechtel@ipcon.de</email>
    <description>A patch to JDO: the same-connection="false" mode of HIGH/LOW key generator didn't work</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Beloff" given="Rostislav"/>
    <email>ros@domainforfree.com</email>
    <description>
       Patch to prevent instropection of static methods.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Betteridge" given="Nick"/>
    <email>n.betteridge@syntactics.com</email>
    <description>
       Added setErrorHandler() to SchemaReader, added removeFacet() to SimpleType.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Bolwidt" given="Erwin"/>
    <email>erwin@klomp.org</email>
    <description>Patches for cleanup of docs</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Braeuchi" given="Jakob"/>
    <email>jbraeuchi@hotmail.com</email>
    <description>Submitted a patch to enable readonly field support</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Brosius" given="Dave"/>
    <email>dbrosius@qis.net</email>
    <description>
        Submitted small improvements to build.bat and various java files.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Bueno" given="Leonardo"/>
    <email>leonardo@itera.com.br</email>
    <description>Contributed MySQL driver.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Bygrave" given="Graham"/>
    <email>Graham.Bygrave@BarclaysGlobal.com</email>
    <description>Offered a fix an unprotected call on a potentially null object in <tt>OQLQueryImpl#bind()</tt></description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Causevic" given="Emir"/>
    <email>emircaus@bih.net.ba</email>
    <description>
        Contributed several patches for SapDb driver and fixed compilation problems with 
		Java5. Currently involved in JPA 3.0 implementation and extension of Castor JDO
		to meet new feature requests.
    </description>
    <status>active</status>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Child" given="Terry"/>
    <email>tmchild@gmx.net</email>
    <description>Contributed Interbase driver.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Chin" given="Stephen"/>
    <email>schin@qrs.com</email>
    <description>Proposed patch for bug 1530</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Christmann" given="Paul"/>
    <email>paul@priorartisans.com</email>
    <description>Provided UnmarshalListener feature</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Coleman" given="Alan"/>
    <email>alan@kenamea.com</email>
    <company id="kenamea"/>
    <description>Contributions to Castor XML (patch for bugs 1319, 1322)</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Cumberland" given="David"/>
    <email>dcumberl@truelink.com</email>
    <description>Patch for DateTimeValidator.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="De Smedt" given="Thomas"/>
    <email>thomas.de.smedt@pandora.be</email>
    <description>Patch for bug 1530</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Deichmann" given="Bernd"/>
    <email>bernd.deichmann@poet.de</email>
    <company id="poet"/>
    <description>
       Updates for ODMG 3.0 collection support.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Detlefsen" given="August"/>
    <email>augustd@codemagi.com</email>
    <description>
        Fixed issue with bad dates being persisted in Oracle 9.2.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with E-H -->

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Eliassen" given="Stein"/>
    <email>stein.m.eliassen@start.no</email>
    <description>
       Fix for but 1313, count-limited cache type is 30 not 100.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="La Ferla" given="Robert"/>
    <email>robertlaferla@comcast.net</email>
    <description>Conributed EnumeratedTypeaccess interface..</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Gaillard" given="Gilles"/>
    <email>gillesGaillard@compuserve.com</email>
    <description>
       various bug fixes and patches for Castor XML
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Giordano" given="Chris"/>
    <email>giordano@more.net</email>
    <description>
       Patch for bug 1658
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Green" given="Nathan"/>
    <email>nsgreen@thazar.com</email>
    <description>
       Enhancements to ConsoleDialog and SourceGenerator to allow
       "all" option via command line utility.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Guillemot" given="Marc" />
    <email>mguillemot@yahoo.fr</email>
    <description>Contributed a fix for bug 1452.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Guerin" given="Thierry" />
    <email>thierry.guerin@prima-solutions.com</email>
    <description>Added WeblogicXMLSerializerFactory.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Hafner" given="Ulli"/>
    <email>hafner@sdm.de</email>
    <description>Patch for bug 1632</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Hall" given="John"/>
    <email>jhall@solant.com</email>
    <company id="avolent"/>
    <description>Patch to upgrade Mapping.xsd to latest XML Schema draft</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Higgins" given="Patrick"/>
    <email>phiggins@transzap.com</email>
    <description>
        Enhancements to the javasource classes to fix support for abstract
        methods. Some changes for Java 2 types compatibiliy.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Hogge" given="Rick"/>
    <email>rhogge@austin.rr.com</email>
    <description>
       Added patch to source generator to prevent conflicts with java.lang.Object
       when the XML Schema contains an element name of "object" or "Object".
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with I-L -->

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Kelly" given="Shaun" />
    <email>shaun.kelly@bigpond.com</email>
    <description>
    Fix for OQLQueryImpl.java for multiple occurrences of the 'AS' keyword.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Kleppinger" given="Don"/>
    <email>Don.Kleppinger@Den.Galileo.com</email>
    <description>
       Enhancement to Marshaller to support BigDecimal as a primitive type.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Lavandowska" given="Lance"/>
    <email>lance@aptura.com</email>
    <description>Mapping GUI, LIMIT and OFFSET keywords for HSQL, MySQL and PostgreSQL</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Layes" given="Jonathan"/>
    <email>jlayes@zaplet.com</email>
    <company id="zaplet"/>
    <description>Some bug fixes to XML Unmarshaller</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Liebner" given="Stefan"/>
    <email>MailLiebner@gmx.ne</email>
    <description>Submitted code for generating mapping file from existing SQL database.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Lin" given="Peter"/>
    <email>woolfel@yahoo.com</email>
    <description>Provided patch for bug 1272 (fix for bound properties)</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Low" given="Heng Sin"/>
    <email>lowhs@comline.com.my</email>
    <description>Gives helps fellow users on the mailing list</description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with M-P -->

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Maria" given="Damon" />
    <email>damon@mahu-ika.com</email>
   <description>Bug reports and bug fixes for readonly locking mode in Castor JDO</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Martin" given="Margaret"/>
    <email>mmartin@vignette.com</email>
    <description>
        Contributions to the mailing list to help others in the community; contributed a workaround for the lack of self-referential relationships.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Matz" given="Oliver"/>
    <email>oliver.matz@ppi.de</email>
    <description>Fix for rollback of fields of type primitive long.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Mauch" given="Thorsten"/>
    <email>mauch@imkenberg.de</email>
    <description>OQL Query tool, bug fixing for OQL.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="May" given="Andrew"/>
    <email>amay@ingenta.com</email>
    <description>Fixed Castor being unable to find FieldDescriptor when using auto-naming with location.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
     <name surname="McKinley" given="Will"/>
     <email>willowmck@yahoo.com</email>
     <description>
        Provided a patch to source generator that allows case insensitive lookups for enumerated type values.
     </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
     <name surname="Murray" given="Tom"/>
     <email>tmurray@cup.hp.com</email>
     <description>Provided a patch concerning the reading of AnyNode.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Moallemi" given="Ciamac" />
    <email>ciamac@neogenesis.com</email>
    <description>A patch to OQL parser: retrieving fields from a superclass</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Nemeshazy" given="David" />
    <email>dnemeshazy@odyssey-group.com</email>
    <description>Provided a fix for making the HIGH/LOW key generator name pass XML
    schema and DTD validation.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Nielsen" given="Glenn"/>
    <email>glenn@voyager.apg.more.net</email>
    <description>Some patches for Castor XML, JakartaOroEvaluator</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Okamoto" given="Takashi"/>
    <email>toraneko@kun.ne.jp</email>
    <description>Contributed XercesRegExpEvaluator implementation</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Oines" given="Leif"/>
    <email>leif.oines@calebtech.com</email>
    <description>Some bug fixes for DateFieldHandler</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Olausson" given="Thomas"/>
    <email>thomas.olausson@home.se</email>
    <description>Contributed a patch for DB2 and identity columns</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Ostermueller" given="Erik"/>
    <email>Erik.Ostermueller@alltel.com</email>
    <description>Contributions to the mailing list to help others in the community</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Ozyurt" given="Burak"/>
    <email>bozyurt@san.rr.com</email>
    <description>Added InstantDB to the list of supported databases.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Paradis" given="Jackie"/>
    <email>jackie_paradis@yahoo.ca</email>
    <description>Patch for bug 1474</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Parent" given="Marc-Antoine"/>
    <email>Marc-Antoine_Parent@mitel.com</email>
    <description>Enhancements to the Castor DSML and bug fixing.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Pelchat" given="Stéphane"/>
    <email>stephane@ofoto.com</email>
    <description>Patches to enum and date field handlers to support "nillable" fields.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Picasso" given="Brent"/>
    <email>brentpicasso@yahoo.com</email>
    <description>Some patches for Castor XML</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Pinel" given="Phil"/>
    <email>geek@quack.org.uk</email>
    <description>TimeZone bug fix for DateFieldHandler</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Post" given="Ulrich"/>
    <email>Ulrich.Post@softwareag.com</email>
    <description>
        Allowed restricting an complexType with complexContent to complexType with simpleContent.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Prechtl" given="Barbara"/>
    <email>bprechtl@nortel.com</email>
    <description>Fixed unmarshaller error with generated code when using groups.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Purnhagen" given="Ralf" />
    <email>purnhar@gmx.net</email>
    <description>A patch to JDO which fixed a ClassNotFoundException ocurring in a multiple ClassLoader environment</description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with Q-S -->

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Rader" given="Todd" />
    <description>A patch for RelationCollection to fix incorrect iteration deleted items are present.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Randall" given="Brett" />
    <email>brett_s_r@hotmail.com</email>
    <description>Patch for bug 1272 (fix for bound properties)</description>
  </contributor>


  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Rehor" given="Petr" />
    <email>petr.rehor@decros.cz</email>
    <description>Patches to Castor OQL. Includes the support of 1:M N:M query.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Renner" given="Martin" />
    <email>m.renner@exxcellent.de</email>
    <description>Fixes for rollback() destroying lazy loading collections,
      PreparedStatement not closed in SQLEngine.delete,
      Exception during db.rollback() when db.update() fails,
      Time limited cache is expiring too fast</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Revie" given="Jon" />
    <email>revie@rhinointernet.com</email>
    <description>Bug fixes for logging statements.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Rhodes" given="Phillip" />
    <email>rhodespc@telerama.com</email>
    <description>Fixed JDO bug: non-null columns sometimes were returned as null</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Riege" given="Christian" />
    <email>criege@riege.com</email>
    <description>
       Patch for JInterface to prevent illegal cast when adding a method that uses
       a JInterface as a parameter type
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Rotman" given="Stefan" />
    <email>srotman@factotummedia.nl</email>
    <description>Fix bug at CastorException</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Rousse" given="Guillaume" />
    <email>Guillaume.Rousse@univ-reunion.fr</email>
   <description>Mapping extension and other important feebback</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Roytenberg" given="David" />
    <email>droytenberg@yahoo.com</email>
    <company id="nsri"/>
   <description>
      Enhancements to DateFieldHandler to allow different date formats than
      that which is defined in XML Schema.
   </description>
  </contributor>


  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Salwinski" given="Lukasz"/>
    <email>lukasz@mbi.ucla.edu</email>
    <description>
       Helped tracked down issue causing bug CASTOR-1216
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Shea" given="Gary"/>
    <email>shea@gtsdesign.com</email>
    <description>
       Enhancements to the org.exolab.javasource package.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Shishakov" given="Vitaly"/>
    <email>vitaly.shishakov@novalumen.com</email>
    <description>Contributed "trigger" mode for SEQUENCE key generator.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Sibilev" given="Kesha"/>
    <email>ksibilev@powernetinc.com</email>
    <description>Patches to JDO</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Simon" given="Eric"/>
    <email>ESimon@spss.com</email>
    <description>Fixed thread safe issue with mapping files</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Skopp" given="Martin"/>
    <email>skopp@riege.de</email>
    <description>
       Enhancements to the org.exolab.javasource package.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Small" given="Matt"/>
    <email>msmall@clickability.com</email>
    <description>Some patches for Castor XML Schema Writer,
       tracked down issue for bug CASTOR-1216
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Smith" given="Ron"/>
    <email>rsmith7209@yahoo.com</email>
    <description>Patch to make 'Map' collection really generic.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Snowsill" given="David" />
    <email>david.snowsill@calibreft.com.au</email>
   <description>JDO bugfixes</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Stewart" given="George"/>
    <email>georgestewartiv@yahoo.com</email>
    <description>
       Enhancement to give mapping loader higher priority than compiled descriptors
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Sutphin" given="Rhett"/>
    <email>rhett-sutphin@uiowa.edu</email>
    <description>
       Fixes for mapping.xsd (the schema for the mapping object model) and the initial
       contribution of the binding file for the mapping schema. Patch for bug 1245.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with T-Z -->

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Telcik" given="Tim"/>
    <email>ttelcik@hbf.com.au</email>
    <description>
       Patch for bug 1916 and 1917
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Thal" given="David"/>
    <email>dthal@combimatrix.com</email>
    <description>
       Patch for bug 1666
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Thelen" given="Frank"/>
    <email>Frank.Thelen@poet.de</email>
    <company id="poet"/>
    <description>
       Submitted code for allowing subclassing of the special types used
       by the Source Generator, and for supporting ODMG 3.0 collections.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Thyen" given="Michael"/>
    <email>mthyen@excite.com</email>
    <description>Patch to fix introspection of addXxx() method.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Tinker" given="David" />
    <email>david@hemtech.co.za</email>
    <description>Add support of Identity Key generator for Informix</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Tsichevski" given="Vladimir"/>
    <email>wowa@jet.msk.su</email>
    <description>Some patches for Castor XML + Castor JDO</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Ulrich" given="Lutz"/>
    <email>ulrich@optimal-systems.de</email>
    <description>Patch for Castor XML bug 1416</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Valchkov" given="Stoil" />
    <email>svalchkov@gmail.com</email>
    <description>Fixed NPE in case of extension of union</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="van Kann" given="Patrick" />
    <email>patrick.vankann@fortune-cookie.com</email>
    <description>Ported SQL for Castor JDO tests to SQL Server; updates for docs; helping others on the mailing list</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="van der Kuil" given="Roy" />
    <email>roy@vanderkuil.nl</email>
    <description>Patch for bug 1730; helping others on the mailing list</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="van Voorthujsen" given="Henk" />
    <email>voorth@xs4all.nl</email>
    <description>Fixed lots of compiler warnings</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Verlet" given="Stephane" />
    <email>stephane@mminternet.com</email>
    <description>Patch for High/Low key generator problem in multi DB environement</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Weir" given="John"/>
    <email>weirja@btinternet.com</email>
    <description>
        enhancement to allow extra non-matched elements to simply be ignored.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Westbay" given="Michael"/>
    <email>westbay@users.sourceforge.net</email>
    <description>
        Patch for bug CASTOR-1132 (JIRA)
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Wichoski" given="Clóvis"/>
    <email>clovis.wichoski@gmail.com</email>
    <company id="supridatta"/>
    <description>
        Contributed patch for SapDbQueryExpression and CASTOR-1207 (JIRA).
        Also improved coverage of CTF tests for SapDB.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Wise" given="Nic"/>
    <email>nicw@xerxes.co.nz</email>
    <description>Contributed SEQUENCE key generator for Interbase.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Contributor">
    <name surname="Woon" given="Mark" />
    <email>morpheus@SMI.Stanford.EDU</email> <description>
        Contributed patches for java.lang.Long&lt;-&gt;java.util.Date
        type convertors and some patches to clean up docs
    </description>
  </contributor>


  <!-- ******** -->
  <!-- FEEDBACK -->
  <!-- ******** -->

  <!-- PLEASE KEEP THIS LIST SORTED ALPHABETICALLY
      It makes it easier to maintain
  -->

  <!-- Last names begin with A-D -->

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Arias" given="Luis"/>
    <email>luis@elysia.com</email>
    <description>XML Schema related issues</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Balsoy" given="Ozgur"/>
    <email>ozgur@csit.fsu.edu</email>
    <description>Castor XML feedback</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Cabrera" given="Alan"/>
    <email>adc@multex.com</email>
    <description>Patch to add InstanceFactory support</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Christopherson" given="Dan"/>
    <email>danch@nvisia.com</email>
    <description>Patch for wildcard introspection bug</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Dankert" given="Edwin"/>
    <email>edankert@cladonia.com</email>
    <description>
       Patch to org.exolab.castor.xml.schema.util.DatatypeHandler to
       allow empty strings to be handled properly and prevent an
       exception when "guessing" the type.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with E-H -->

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Goetter" given="Stephan"/>
    <email>stephan.goetter@newtron.net</email>
    <description>Castor XML feedback</description>
  </contributor>


  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Goldstein" given="Peter"/>
    <email>pgoldstein@triu.com</email>
    <description>Suggested improvement in generated source for booleans (bug 1527)</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Haghani" given="Sasha"/>
    <email>shaghani@activience.com</email>
    <description>Reported bug with 1-1 Related Objects and autoStore</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Hoyle" given="Duncan"/>
    <email>duncanh@granada-learning.com</email>
    <description>Castor XML feedback</description>
  </contributor>


  <!-- Last names begin with I-L -->

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Judd" given="Struan"/>
    <email>struan@motorweb.co.nz</email>
    <description>Castor XML feedback</description>
  </contributor>


  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Kleser" given="Gerald"/>
    <email>gerald@neofonie.de</email>
    <description>Addition feedback and proposed workaround for bug 1449</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Kovacs" given="Zsolt"/>
    <email>Zsolt.Kovacs@cern.ch</email>
    <description>NullPointerException fix in XMLInstance2SchemaHandler</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="La Ferla" given="Robert"/>
    <email>robertlaferla@comcast.net</email>
    <description>Castor XML feedback</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Leng" given="Bill"/>
    <email>wleng@metatomix.com</email>
    <description>Bug Reports / Castor XML feedback</description>
  </contributor>


  <!-- Last names begin with M-P -->

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Ohlrogge" given="Joakim"/>
    <email>j_ohlrogge@hotmail.com</email>
    <description>Patch for bug 1449</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Paradies" given="Thomas"/>
    <email>paradies@transit-online.de</email>
    <description>
       Bug report and patch for default Serializer configuration with respect
       to UTF-8 encoding.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with Q-S -->

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Rimac" given="Ivica"/>
    <email>ivica.rimac@KOM.tu-darmstadt.de</email>
    <description>A lot of bug reports, feature requrests, feedbacks and testing for Castor JDO</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Sadinoff" given="Daniel"/>
    <email>daniel.sadinoff@gs.com</email>
    <description>Fixed some typos in the origins document</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Schneider" given="Georg"/>
    <email>h8825037@obelix.wu-wien.ac.at</email>
    <description>Found an ArrayOutOfBoundsException and fixed it.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Skolnik" given="Radovan"/>
    <email>rskolnik@inmail.sk</email>
    <description>
       Testing/Feedback on mapping file usage related to Castor XML
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Soysa" given="Manjuka"/>
    <email>manjuka@visto.com</email>
    <description>Feedback on generated enumerations,
         suggested adding the "enumerate" method.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Suez" given="Eitan"/>
    <email>eitan@uptodata.com</email>
    <description>Various bug reports.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Sundaranatha" given="Venkatakrishnan"/>
    <email>ssvk@msn.com</email>
    <description>Testing for Oracle and type conversion for Oracle JDBC driver.</description>
  </contributor>

  <!-- Last names begin with T-Z -->


  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Van vlerken" given="Johan"/>
    <email>johan.vanvlerken@b-rail.be</email>
    <description>Castor XML feedback - patch for bug 1461</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Vaughan" given="Steve"/>
    <email>snmvaughan92@yahoo.com</email>
    <description>Castor XML feedback</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Viet" given="Julien"/>
    <email>julien.viet@int-evry.fr</email>
    <description>
          Reported bug in CollectionInfoJ2 with respect to unbounded collections
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Wescott" given="Jeffrey"/>
    <email>jeff@saltare.com</email>
    <description></description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Feedback">
    <name surname="Zamler" given="Eldad"/>
    <email>eldad314@netvision.net.il</email>
    <description>Found and reported bugs in ClassMolder, ObjectLock and SQLEngine</description>
  </contributor>


  <!-- ********** -->
  <!-- DOCUMENTOR -->
  <!-- ********** -->

  <!-- PLEASE KEEP THIS LIST SORTED ALPHABETICALLY
      It makes it easier to maintain
  -->


  <contributor type="Documentor">
    <name surname="Gilmartin" given="Andrew"/>
    <email>andrew.gilmartin@ingenta.com</email>
    <description>
       Provided examples and docs Blob support via OID with
       PostgreSQL.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Documentor">
    <name surname="Horowitz" given="Rick"/>
    <email>rickhoro@yahoo.com</email>
    <description>Improve the documentation of Castor JDO. Also, bug reports and feedback.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Documentor">
    <name surname="Secoske" given="Matt"/>
    <email>secoskem@gmail.com</email>
    <description>HOW-TO Unmarshal raw XML segments into arbitrary types.</description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Documentor">
    <name surname="Suez" given="Eitan"/>
    <email>eitan@uptodata.com</email>
    <description>
        Clean-up of <i>xml-mapping</i> documentation and documentation on xsi:type.
        The create-method addition to the <i>tip &amp; tricks</i> page.
    </description>
  </contributor>

  <contributor type="Documentor">
    <name surname="Tanner" given="Dan"/>
    <email>Dan.B.Tanner@wellsfargo.com</email>
    <description>
       Contribution to the Castor XML FAQ.
    </description>
  </contributor>


  <!-- ******************** -->
  <!-- COMPANY INFORMATION  -->
  <!-- ******************** -->
  <!--
      Company Information, so we don't have to duplicate it for
      mulitple contributors of the same company
  -->
  <!-- PLEASE KEEP THIS LIST SORTED ALPHABETICALLY
      It makes it easier to maintain
  -->

  <!-- Company Names (A-D) -->

  <company id="anecon">
    <name>Anecon Softwaredesign und Beratung Ltd.</name>
    <url>www.anecon.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="apache">
    <name>Apache Software Foundation</name>
    <url>www.apache.org</url>
  </company>

  <company id="avolent">
    <name>Avolent, Inc.</name>
    <url>www.avolent.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="coda">
    <name>CODA</name>
    <url>www.coda.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="codehead">
    <name>CodeHead Systems</name>
    <url>www.codeheadsystems.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="ctoforaday">
    <name>CTO for a day</name>
    <url>www.ctoforaday.com</url>
  </company>


  <!-- Company Names (E-H) -->

  <company id="eds">
    <name>EDS (Electronic Data Systems)</name>
    <url>www.eds.com</url>
  </company>

  <!-- Company Names (I-L) -->

  <company id="ibis">
    <name>Integrated Banking Information Systems</name>
    <url></url>
  </company>

  <company id="intalio">
    <name>Intalio, Inc.</name>
    <url>www.intalio.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="kenamea">
    <name>Kenamea, Inc.</name>
    <url>www.kenamea.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="leafsoft">
    <name>Leafsoft.com</name>
    <url>leafsoft.com/aboutus.html</url>
  </company>

  <!-- Company Names (M-P) -->

  <company id="mentopolis">
    <name>Mentopolis</name>
    <url>www.mentopolis.de/index.htm</url>
  </company>

  <company id="nksystems">
    <name>NK Systems</name>
    <url>www.nksystems.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="nsri">
    <name>NSRI Inc.</name>
    <url>http://www.nykline.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="poet">
    <name>Poet Software</name>
    <url>www.poet.com</url>
  </company>

  <!-- Company Names (Q-S) -->

  <company id="sun">
    <name>Sun Microsystems</name>
    <url>www.sun.com</url>
  </company>

  <company id="supridatta">
     <name>Supridatta</name>
     <url>www.supridatta.com.br/index.html</url>
  </company>

  <company id="syscon">
     <name>Syscon</name>
     <url>www.syscon-informatics.de/index.html</url>
  </company>

  <!-- Company Names (T-Z) -->

  <company id="zaplet">
    <name>Zaplet</name>
    <url>www.zaplet.com</url>
  </company>

  <!-- description of contributor types -->

  <type name="Committer">
    Committers are contributors who have written lots of important code,
    sacrificing all social events, and becoming a hermit at the expense
    of providing good tools for people they don't even know. In return for
    their love and devotion you may bug them with questions, bug fixes,
    patches and offer them free beer.
  </type>

  <type name="Contributor">
    Contributors are responsible for making this a better project and
    we all end up benefiting from the bug fixes, design changes or features
    they contributed. Contributors tend to live a balanced life and
    hopefully eat a healthy diet.
  </type>

  <type name="Documentor">
    Documentors do the impossible and actually explain how to use the
    software in spite of all the complexity introduced by the committers
    and contributors.
  </type>

  <type name="Feedback">
    The following have offered valuable feedback (including bug reports) that has been beneficial
    to the development and stability.
  </type>

	  </contributors>
	</header>
  </body>
</document>
