About the technology author(s): Rakesh Midha is a software engineer with IBM Software Labs, Bangalore. He is currently working on IBM WebSphere Business Components development. He has five years of technical experience in Java and C++ server-side programming on multiple platforms and various relational database systems such as DB2 UDB, Oracle, MySQL, and Microsoft SQLServer. Mr. Midha's area of expertise includes design and development of stand-alone to n-tier distributed applications in the field of banking, finance, catalog industry, and order and warehouse management systems. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Electronics Engineering from the Punjab University, Chandigarh.
