Writing a Technical Book
Graham Glass offers some great suggestions on how he writes a book (tip of the hat to Matt Croydon). This is extremely valuable information for me, as I will be writing a couple chapters over the next few weeks. If I can follow in his footsteps, I'll be set!
A typical chapter takes me 3 or 4 days to write, including the source code for the examples, which I think is pretty fast. In addition, the high level book structure takes about a day.
The thing I'm struggling with right now is what persistence layer to use on my example Struts application. I'd like to use either Hibernate or Castor, but since I've never implemented either from scratch, I don't want to spend more time learning than implementing. And I'd like to generate the entire persistence layer - which seems possible with both. I'd like to use Middlegen, but then I'll have to use JDO or EJB's for my persistence layer. While JDO might be appropriate, EJBs are probably over-kill for an example app. The nice thing about Middlegen is that it will generate the JSP and Struts classes for me too.
Posted by Lance on November 24, 2002 at 12:10 PM MST #
Posted by Matt on November 24, 2002 at 01:11 PM MST #