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Oracle JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Oracle Fusion Web Development
About the Authors
Duncan Mills is senior director of product management for Oracle’s Application Development
Tools, including Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse, Forms, and the ADF
Framework. Duncan is currently responsible for product direction, evangelism, and courseware
development around the development tools products. He has been working with Oracle in a
variety of application development and DBA roles since 1988. For the past fourteen years he has
been working at Oracle in both support and product development, spending the last eight years
in product management. Duncan is the co-author of the Oracle Press book Oracle JDeveloper
10g for Forms and PL/SQL Developers: A Guide to Web Development with Oracle ADF
(McGraw-Hill Professional, 2006).
For nearly three decades, Oracle, the world’s largest enterprise software company, has
provided the software and services that enable organizations to get the most up-to-date and
accurate information from their business systems. With over 275,000 customers—including 98
of the Fortune 100—Oracle supports customers in more than 145 countries. For more information
about Oracle, visit www.oracle.com.
Peter Koletzke is a technical director and principal instructor for the Enterprise e-Commerce
Solutions practice at Quovera, in Mountain View, California, and has worked in the database
industry since 1984. Peter has presented at various Oracle users group conferences more than
250 times and has won awards such as Pinnacle Publishing’s Technical Achievement, Oracle
Development Tools Users Group (ODTUG) Editor’s Choice (twice), ODTUG Best Speaker, ECO/
SEOUC Oracle Designer Award, the ODTUG Volunteer of the Year, and NYOUG Editor’s Choice
(twice). He is an Oracle ACE Director and an Oracle Certified Master. Peter has co-authored
seven other Oracle Press books (variously with Dr. Paul Dorsey, Avrom, and Duncan) about
Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Forms and Reports, and Oracle Designer.
Quovera (www.quovera.com) is a business consulting and technology integration firm that
specializes in delivering solutions to the high technology, telecommunications, semiconductor,
manufacturing, software and services, public sector, and financial services industries. Quovera
deploys solutions that deliver optimized business processes quickly and economically, driving
increased productivity and improved operational efficiency. Founded in 1995, the company has
a track record of delivering hundreds of strategy, design, and implementation projects to over
250 Fortune 2000 and high-growth middle market companies. Quovera’s client list includes notable
organizations such as Cisco Systems, ON Semiconductor, New York State, Sun Microsystems,
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Seagate, Toyota, Fujitsu, Visa, and Cendant.
Avrom Roy-Faderman works for Quovera as a Java EE consultant, architect, developer, and
instructor, specializing in the Oracle Application Development Framework, as well as an Oracle
ACE Director. He is a Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform and has acted as lead
developer on diverse application projects ranging from e-business and online order systems to
health-care provisioning for governmental and private organizations. He’s also a regular speaker
at Oracle user group conferences and is the co-author, with Paul Dorsey and Peter Koletzke, of
two books: the Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook and the Oracle JDeveloper 10g Handbook, both
from McGraw-Hill and Oracle Press.
NOTE
Sample code for the hands-on practices in this book as well as errata
are available from the websites mentioned in the Introduction’s
section “Websites for Sample Files.”
