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Java Tools for XP

Covers creating, testing and deploying J2EE components and

applications using JUnit, Cactus, JMeter, and Ant, amongst others.

Also expect to see his book on Jython from Addison Wesley in the near future.

Rick has also taught classes on developing Enterprise JavaBeans, JDBC, CORBA,

Applets as CORBA clients, etc.

Rick is a software developer at heart who specializes in software development tools,

creating frameworks and tools, enforcing processes, and developing enterprise

applications using J2EE, XML, UML, CORBA, JDBC, SQL, and Oracle technologies.

A self proclaimed technology masochist, Rick often enjoys working with cutting edge

technologies. "Expect to bleed a lot if you are on the cutting edge", is one of Rick s

favorite sayings. On a recent project, Rick and others adopted EJB CMP/CMR as there

persistence layer of choice before the EJB 2.0 specification was finished.

Many a night, they doubted their decision, but it all worked out in the end. Rick states:

"We did not want to use a non J2EE compliant persistence solution, since we want the

freedom of porting our application to other J2EE application servers, and the possibility

of selling components that we created. In the end, it looks like going with EJB

CMP/CMR was a good decision, but there was some pain along the way as we were

using the specification a lot as our main form of documentation, and we were one of

the first users of this implementation of CMP/CMR."

"We were able to help the vendor by reporting problems. Some of the problems were

our perception of the specification versus the vendors perception of the specification.

The vendor was usually right (that said we were credited with reporting and at times

fixing quite a few bugs)."

"One of the advantages of this decision was our team got to work with a solid

implementation of CMP/CMR a long time before it was available anywhere else. We

now use EJB CMP CMR for all projects. I am a big EJB CMP CMR fan! This new

feature will drive the adoption of EJB even further."

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