Rod Johnson (programmer)

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Johnson studied at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1992 with a BA Hons (music and computer science). In 1996 he completed a PhD in musicology, also at Sydney, with a thesis entitled 'Piano music in Paris under the July monarchy (1830-1848)'.

In the early 2000s, Rod Johnson founded SpringSource,^[1] and served as CEO until its 2009 acquisition by VMware.^[2]

• 2002. Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development. Wrox. ISBN 0-7645-4385-7.
• 2004. Expert One-on-One J2EE Development without EJB. Wrox. ISBN 0-7645-5831-5.
• 2005. Professional Java Development with the Spring Framework. With Juergen Hoeller, Alef Arendsen, Thomas Risberg and Colin Sampaleanu. Wrox. ISBN 0-7645-7483-3.