

			       Credits
			       -------





These are the people who contributed to JGroups (in chronological
order of contribution):



Bela Ban (bela@yahoo.com)
- Original author. Responsible for core, pbcast protocols


Gianluca Collot (gianluca@tin.it)
- Extended virtual synchrony, partitions and merging


John Georgiadis (i.georgiadis@doc.ic.ac.uk)
- Total order protocol (TOTAL)


Jim Menard (jimm@io.com)
- Trace module and makefiles


Filip Hanik (filip@filip.net)
- ANT based build system (./build)
- XML-based protocol stack configuration
- Class marshalling and magic number mapping (XML)


Vladimir Blagojevic  (vladimir@cs.yorku.ca)
- Causal order protocol (CAUSAL)
- Token based total order protocol (TOTAL_TOKEN)
- FLUSH
- Streaming state transfer


Roman Rokytskyy (roman@gate5.de)
- JMS protocol
- JGroups Services (org.javagroups.service): locking/leasing


Ananda Bollu (akbollu@users.sf.net)
- FLOW_CONTROL protocol


Mandar Shinde (whizkid_bay@users.sf.net)
- Persistence manager (org.javagroups.persistence)
- Port to J2ME

Ovidiu Feodorov (ovidiuf@users.sourceforge.net)
- WAN capabilities, TUNNEL and Router

Robert Schaffar-Taurok (robert@fusion.at)
- Distributed lock manager

Chris Lott (chrislott@spamcop.net)
- Javadocs

Chris Mills (chris.mills@jboss.com)
- AUTH