Marty and Java inventor James Gosling at Marty's car.

Marty Hall is the author of Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (first and second editions), More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, and Core Web Programming (first and second editions) from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press. Core Servlets and JSP book is the single most popular book on servlets and JSP internationally, was selected by amazon.com as one of the best five computer programming books of the year, has been the overall weekly #1 bestseller at fatbrain.com nine different times, and spent more than six months as one of the top 10 best-selling computer-related books at amazon.com and at Borders stores nationwide. Core Web Programming has been a best seller in industry as well as being widely used in academia (including Stanford, MIT, Princeton, U.C. Berkeley, UCLA, and Johns Hopkins).

Marty is president of coreservlets.com, a training and consulting company focusing on server-side Java technology. He was formerly a Senior Computer Scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab, where he designed and developed distributed applications (mostly for government clients) in the Research and Technology Development Center.

In addition to long Java development and consulting experience, Marty has extensive teaching and training experience, having given short courses on JSP, servlets, and Struts in the US (many times), Japan (twice), Canada (twice), Australia (twice), Puerto Rico, and the Philippines (twice). He spoke on servlet and JSP technology at JavaOne (three different times), SD West, Comdex, the International Conference for Java Development, and Java user groups in several countries.

Marty has also taught numerous Java/JSP short courses for industry. Clients for on-site Java training courses include the NY Stock Exchange (SIAC), Lexmark International, the Australian Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Context Integration Inc., Genomica Corporation, Banco Popular de Puerto Rico, State Farm Insurance, Impact Innovations LTD, Raytheon Corp., Los Alamos National Labs, University of Michigan School of Engineering, RWD Technologies Inc., General Motor's national R&D center, General Dynamics Corporation, iDS Finance Inc., TransCanada Pipelines, the Hopkins Applied Physics Lab, the US Department of Defense, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Computing Options Company, the Coast Guard Operations System Center, and Shepherd College.

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For the last 17 years Marty has been an adjunct faculty member in the Johns Hopkins part-time graduate program in Computer Science, where he received the Dean's Teaching Excellence award from the JHU School of Engineering and is featured on the program home page and in much of their advertising literature (Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, etc.). In addition to teaching in the Johns Hopkins program, one of the three largest graduate CS programs in the US, he also directs two JHU concentration areas and serves on the Computer Science Program Committee. Marty has also taught full-semester courses at Towson University and short courses and guest lectures at University of Maryland Baltimore County, University of Michigan, Loyola College, and Shepherd College.