I joined Sun—actually, a small Sun spin-off called FirstPerson—in August 1993. I knew about the company because a few of my favorite coworkers had left NeXT to work at FirstPerson. But my main reason for joining was that I loved the cartoony user interfaces FirstPerson was developing, interfaces that featured a character nicknamed Duke. | THEJ2EE Tutorial THEJ2EETM Tutorial Stephanie Bodoff Dale Green Kim Haase Eric Jendrock Monica Pawlan Beth Stearns AAddison-Wesley Boston San Francisco New York Toronto Montreal London Munich Paris Madrid Capetown Sydney Tokyo Singapore Mexico .