I've been following Dave Winer's Scripting News weblog for several years, and I've finally decided to give weblogging a try.
Dave has been encouraging folks to use weblogs as a way to share our knowledge. The two subjects that are most dear to my heart are XML and J2EE frameworks.
In 2000, my Building Oracle XML Applications book came out from O'Reilly. That book nearly cost me my marriage, but it was a chunk of technical ideas and thoughts that I had to get on paper.
I'm working now on a book about Oracle's Business Components for Java framework for building J2EE applications. I've got years of thoughts and ideas that need to get onto paper. I've been slowly making progress on the material over the course of 2002, but since I work on the development team for the BC4J framework at Oracle, I do a lot of time slicing.
I help customers with their JDeveloper and BC4J problems in our Oracle Technology Network JDeveloper online discussion forum, and I keep notes on the most frequently asked questions and hope to weave it all together into a nice book on the subject.
There's already some good BC4J content in the latest edition of the Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook -- contributed by Avrom Faderman who works as a documentation writer on our team, and which was reviewed by us as well -- that just came out in late December 2002, but there's a need for a more of a complete developer's guide focusing only on the BC4J framework. That what I am working on. My stretch target is to finish by the June 2003 JavaOne conference.
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