Claus Weiss is an advisory software consultant with the i5 Application Development Tools team at the IBM Canada Toronto Laboratory. He has an Industrial Engineer degree and a Computer Science degree from the University of Hamburg, Germany. Claus worked as a systems engineer with IBM Germany and joined the IBM Toronto Laboratory in 1984. He was a developer and team leader for System/ 38 development tools and has been a member of the Design Control Group for the AS/400 development tools. Claus has worked as a planner for i5 Application Development for the past ten years specializing in Visual Tools. Claus is a frequent speaker at COMMON and other i5 conferences. Claus is the lead author of the book, Understanding the IBM WebFacing tool, published by IBM Press and co-author of several IBM Redbooks.