About the Instructor

Marty & Java inventor James Gosling at Marty's car.

Marty Hall is president of coreservlets.com, Inc., a training and consulting company focusing on server-side Java technology and Rich Internet Apps with Ajax. He was formerly a Principal Computer Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, where he designed and developed distributed applications (mostly for government clients) in the Research and Technology Development Center.

Marty is the author of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (first and second editions), More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, and Core Web Programming (first and second editions) from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press. Core Servlets and JSP is the single most popular book on servlets and JSP internationally, was selected by amazon.com as one of the best five computer programming books of the year, has been the overall weekly #1 bestseller at fatbrain.com nine different times, and spent more than six months as one of the top 10 best-selling computer-related books at amazon.com and at Borders stores nationwide. Available versions include Bulgarian, Chinese Simplified Script (Mainland China), Chinese Traditional Script (Taiwan), Czech, Greek, English (North/South America, Europe), English (one version published in USA and another version reprinted in India), French, German, Hebrew, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. In addition be being best sellers in industry, Marty's books have been widely used in academia (including Stanford, MIT, Princeton, U.C. Berkeley, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins).

In addition to long Java development and consulting experience, Marty has extensive teaching and training experience, having given short courses on JSP, servlets, Struts, JSF, Ajax, GWT, Web Services, and Java programming in the US (many times), Japan (three times), Canada (three times), Australia (three times), India (twice), the Philippines (many times), Mexico, Cambodia, and Puerto Rico. He spoke on J2EE technology at JavaOne (five different times), SD West, Comdex, the Web 2.0 Expo, the International Conference for Java Development, the Great Indian Developer Summit (including keynote address), and Java user groups in several countries.

Ads for Marty at GIDS conference in India

Marty has also taught numerous onsite Java EE and Ajax short courses for organizations in a wide variety of fields. Here are some examples:

• Government/Military: NSA, CIA, Naval Surface Weapons Center, US Coast Guard, Patuxent River Naval Air Station, Westchester County (New York), Los Alamos National Labs, Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre, United Nations.
• Defense: General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, SAIC, Titan, ESI, Raytheon, ICCI, ProObject, FRC, ClearEdge IT, Pangia Technologies.
• Technology and Aerospace: VeriSign, Learjet, Sikorsky Aircraft, Impact Innovations, RWD Technologies, Peregrine Systems, AEM, TBB Global Logistics, Casa Real Japan.
• Finance/Insurance: New York Stock Exchange (SIAC), Fannie Mae, State Farm Insurance, Arbella Insurance, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, TRG.
• Media/Entertainment: Comcast, Western Canada Lottery Corporation, SuperMedia (superpages.com, switchboard.com, localsearch.com, etc.), the New York Post, Salt March Media (Bangalore).
• Energy: TransCanada Pipelines, Southern Union (formerly Enron).
• Healthcare: National Bureau of Medical Examiners, University of Utah Hospital (IT staff), Genomica Corp., ViPS.
• Education/Research: University of Michigan (IT staff in the School of Engineering), Shepherd College, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, Australian Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Mitsubishi Research Center Tokyo, Tec de Monterrey (computer science professors from around Mexico).
• Other Fortune 500: General Motors, Hewlett Packard, Costco, Motorola, Lexmark International.

Marty on JHU advertisement

For the last 20 years Marty has been an adjunct faculty member in the Johns Hopkins University part-time graduate program in Computer Science, where he received the Dean's Teaching Excellence award from the JHU School of Engineering and is featured on the program home page and in much of their advertising literature (Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, etc.). In addition to teaching in the Johns Hopkins program, one of the three largest graduate CS programs in the US, he also directs two JHU concentration areas and serves on the Computer Science Program Committee. Marty has also taught full-semester courses at Towson University and short courses and guest lectures at University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Michigan, Loyola College, Shepherd College, and the Tec de Monterrey (Mexico).