* Welcome Roland Barcia, Kyle Brown and Geoff Hambrick

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

This week, we're delighted to have Roland Barcia helping to answer questions about the new book Persistence in the Enterprise: A Guide to Persistence Technologies.

The promotion starts Tuesday, July 22nd 2008 and will end on Friday, July 25th 2008.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, IBM Press.

Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing.

[edited to fix end date]

[ July 21, 2008: Message edited by: Jeanne Boyarsky ]
[ July 22, 2008: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

And hello to Kyle too. One of our moderators is an author on this book.

I have a review posted for this book. Cameron was kind enough to post a picture of the cover since Amazon has some confusion on the order/number of the authors.

[Alex Kuznetsov]

Great! I actually was looking for a book that compares persistence layers of different enterprise applications. It'll be a great help for my SCEA certification.

[Cameron Wallace McKenzie]

Actually, I was somewhat disappointed. I thought maybe Roland and Kyle had merged into one super, cyber-Java-organism called a Kyle Barcia, but alas, it was a typo at amazon.

Welcome Kyle and Roland!

-Cameron McKenzie

[kamalkant rajput]

Welcome Sir,
I wanted to know what all Persistence Technologies you have discussed in this book.Did your book covers iBatis??? and general question like when a particular persistence technology should be used.

[Bear Bibeault]

Please be sure to open new topics for questions. This topic is to welcome the authors (and posts within it are not eligible for the drawing).

"Sreesubha AP", please check your private messages for an important administrative matter.
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[Roland Barcia]

Thank You for the welcome. I did not realize Amazon had merged Kyle and me.

[Roland Barcia]

Originally posted by kamalkant rajput:
Welcome Sir,
I wanted to know what all Persistence Technologies you have discussed in this book.Did your book covers iBatis??? and general question like when a particular persistence technology should be used.

Yes, this book covers both these topics.

[Roland Barcia]

Originally posted by Cameron Wallace McKenzie:
Actually, I was somewhat disappointed. I thought maybe Roland and Kyle had merged into one super, cyber-Java-organism called a Kyle Barcia, but alas, it was a typo at amazon.

Welcome Kyle and Roland!

-Cameron McKenzie

This book had 5 authors in general..The Kindle edition has that mistake, but the general entry I think is OK.

We should also welcome Geoffrey Hambrick, who may be on the forum this week as well.

[Geoff Hambrick]

Hi. Thanks for the introduction.

Ok then, Geoff

[Bear Bibeault]

Welcome Geoff! I've promoted you to author, have fun this week.