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Ueli Wahli is a Consultant IT Specialist at the IBM International Technical Support Organization in San Jose, California. Before joining the ITSO over 20 years ago, Ueli worked in technical support at IBM Switzerland. He writes extensively and teaches IBM classes worldwide about WebSphere® Application Server and WebSphere and Rational application development products. In his ITSO career, Ueli has produced more than 40 IBM Redbooks. Ueli holds a degree in Mathematics from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

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