Java champion and alumnus visits Paisley Campus
The School of Computing, Engineering and Physical Sciences welcomed Computing Science graduate Alan Williamson back to Paisley Campus on Wednesday 5 December 2018 to meet students and staff and see some of the research work the school is involved in.
Alan, who graduated from the Paisley Campus in 1994, has published a number of books in the Java space covering Enterprise Java, Servlets, JavaMail and database access. He also served in the role of Editor-in-Chief for Java Developers Journal, one of the largest magazines in the space with a 200k monthly circulation.
With a deep background in high-volume server processing, Alan was the first UK Java Champion, a program by Oracle/Sun to recognize the Top 100 people who have contributed the most to Java.
Now based in the USA, Alan is a ...