Philip Bishop is a co-founder of Net Caboodle and co-author, with Nigel Warren, of the books Java in Practice and JavaSpaces in Practice, both published by Addison Wesley Longman. Philip is widely regarded as a Java and Distributed systems expert and is the founder of Inca X www.incax.com the software development tools company. He has consulted for many companies in the use of distributed Java and Internet technology in business and financial services - including Deutsche Bank, Lehman Brothers, the Royal Bank of Scotland and HSBC.