I sent a note today to Rod Johnson, author of Expert One-to-One: J2EE Design and Development, asking him permission to include a quote from a section of his book in my BC4J Pet Store whitepaper I'm writing. He graciously said yes. Thanks, Rod!
Rod's book breaks away from the typical books on J2EE and focuses instead on debunking myths and providing a great amount of pragmatic advice on when to use which J2EE technologies, and how to do it in a robust way. It's a book that I wish was published 3-4 years ago! It would have saved a lot of beginning J2EE developers a lot of grief. But it's the kind of book that you can only write after living the technology for years and writing "home" about it with that experience under your belt. Highly recommended.
Users of the BC4J framework will find that many of our design choices in the framework directly implement the pragmatic ideas that Rod so coherently describes in this book. Perhaps even more convincingly and thoroughly than our own documentation, Rod's book describes the underlying motivations for why we've done many of the things the way we have.
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I'm taking a train tomorrow to Milan to hear a presentation from an Italian software house that's developed some additional custom application-building frameworks on top of BC4J and JClient to make assembling their databound JClient/Swing user interfaces more declarative. If they tell me I can talk about any of the details, I'll post something here.