Farrukh Najmi is a Staff Engineer in the J2EE team at Sun. His focus in recent years has been web services, eBusiness and XML Registries. He is an active contributor to the ebXML eBusiness standards activity, where he is a primary author of the ebXMLRegistry specifications. Currently he is the specification lead for Java API for XMLRegistries (JAXR). Previously, he helped develop Sun's Java Messaging Service Reference Implementation. Prior to joining Sun, Farrukh was at Hewlett Packard where he led the development of a large scale enterprise Java application in the field of Medical InformationSystems. He started his career at HP Labs where he worked on the first single chip HPPA RISC processor from HP.