First drafts are done!
I wrapped up my first draft of 'Data Access with JDBC' last week and tonight I submitted 'Performance and Debugging' to WROX. Overall, I am pretty happy with the two chapters. I was able to apply what I learned while working on the application server development team at my current job and what I learned from developing, deploying, and supporting Roller. Writing the chapters was a hell of a lot of work and I really had to lock myself away from family and friends to get the job done, but it was also a lot of fun.
Tomorrow is my last day of work until January 6th and I have no big travel or vacation plans this Christmas. I bet WROX won't get back to me until after the new year and so I'll have lots of free time to spend with the trio of little tikes, hack around with Roller, and think about new directions for 2003.IDEA, JBuilder, and BEA Workshop are toast?
According to Patrick Chanezon, BEA Workshop is ready for butter and jam and there only three IDE players left:
IBM builds momentum around Eclipse. New members sign on to program, but not Sun or BEA [InfoWorld: Web Services]What about IDEA IntelliJ?There are 3 players left in the java IDE game: Sun, IBM and BEA.
With IBM having bought Rational, I think BEA Workshop is toast. Too bad it looked real nice. How long before they port it to the Eclipse platform :-)
What about Borland, who now owns both JBuilder and the Together Control Center?
I don't think you can write them off just yet.
Speaking of that "real nice" BEA Workshop GUI: last night at the TriJUG meeting, Chris Garrett of TogetherSoft demonstrated the Together Control Center BEA Workshop Accelerator. The Accerator allows you to build web services for the Weblogic server in a graphical manner using a UML-like notation. These web services use the Weblogic Workshop's server-side framework, but the Weblogic Workshop GUI is not involved in the process in any way.
TogetherSoft may have no need for the BEA Workshop GUI, but BEA has not given up on the Workshop at all. According to this InfoWorld article, BEA is "expanding [the Workshop] into a full-blown development environment for not only Web services but also for pages, for server-side components, for visual controls, visual interfaces, the whole nine yards"