Ben founded the Spring Security project in 2003 and led its development into a popular, open-source security framework that is used in numerous government, banking and military installations. More recently, Ben founded and serves as lead of the Spring Roo and Spring Shell projects, both of which deliver significant productivity and usability benefits to those using Spring technologies. In recent years, Ben has presented at technology conferences including JavaOne, The Server Side Java Symposium, JAOO, Øredev, SpringOne and The Spring Experience. He also authored the security chapter of the Wiley book, “Professional J2EE Development with Spring framework,” and maintains a blog at http://blog.springsource.com/main/author/bena/.