I’m Avrom Roy-Faderman, a Java EE consultant, developer, and trainer (specializing in the Oracle Application Development Framework) for Quovera, a business consulting and technology integration company based in Mountain View, California. I’m also the co-author, with Paul Dorsey and Peter Koletzke, of two books: the Oracle9i JDeveloper Handbook and the Oracle JDeveloper 10g Handbook, both from Osborne/McGraw-Hill and Oracle Press. I’m currently working on a third book, Oracle JDeveloper Fusion Development – A Handbook for 4GL Developers, with Peter Koletzke and Duncan Mills, for the same publisher. This book is about Oracle JDeveloper/ADF 11g.
My books have a distinct 4GL orientation – the forthcoming one even has “4GL” right there, in the title. And my primary area of expertise is, indeed, Oracle ADF, much of the point of which is to provide a declarative framework for Java EE development. But despite all of that, I don’t really think of myself as primarily a 4GL developer. I came to Java before I came to JDeveloper, Oracle, or declarative development, and i am still, at heart, an OO-head. But I’ve spent enough time immersed in the 4GL world that I hope I’ll have stuff to say of interest to Java developers, 4GL developers, and members of one group who are trying to learn a bit about the other.
