Publications

summary

by Eric Armstrong

DITA Publications

Articles

• "Conditionals vs. Composition", published in Best Practices, A Publication of the Center for Information-Development  Management (CIDM)  Dec 2008, Vol 10, Issue 6. www.infomanagementcenter.com
  TBD: Republished _here_, Apr 2009
• Pending: The 20+ Decisions that Face a DITA Project: Guidelines for Choosing
• Pending: Comparing Technologies and Making Selections: A Three-Part Process

Presentations

• When is DITA Right for You? (and when isn't it?) -- A Decsion Guide for the Curious (DocWest, March 2009)
• DITA 101 (the Short Course) -- An Introduction to DITA (Sun Brownbag, Oct 2008)
• DITA Explained -- How it Works, and What it Can Do for Us (Sun internal presentation, Aug 2007)

Blog Posts

• Sun (coolstuff: DITA, JRuby, Technology)
• Artima (cooltools: JRuby, Rake, and Java)
  
• Index

Java Publications

Books

	The J2EE Tutorial, Addison-Wesley, 2004 (pending publication). A tutorial on writing J2EE applications using the Java programming language. Combines the work of several authors at Sun. (My sections introduce XML and XML programming in Java.)
	The Java Web Services Tutorial, Addison-Wesley, 2002. A tutorial that details the process for creating web-based server/client applications using the Java programming language. Combines the work of several authors at Sun. (My sections introduce XML and XML programming in Java.)
	Java Programming in XML (JAXP) tutorial. An introduction to programming XML in Java, using SAX, DOM, DTDs, XSL, and XPath. Available online at http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/docs.html and as part of the web services & J2EE tutorials above.
	The (Java) JBuilder2 Bible, IDG Books, 1997. A Java tutorial that uses the JBuilder IDE as an instruction vehicle. Unfortunately out of date, as Swing components have replace the AWT components used in the book, and Collections provide a more powerful and more elegegant mechanism for many of the data structures used in the examples.   Errata Page for The (Java) JBuilder2 Bible Unfortunately, many quotation marks went missing when the book went to press. This page tells where to put them, so you can make sense of the code. It includes a few other useful additions, as well.
	Acknowledgement J.B. Rainsberger includes a very kind acknowledgement in the introduction to his book, JUnit Recipes, which I am compelled to reproduce here because it is so flattering: "Eric Armstrong contributed more to the improvement of early copies of this manuscript than any other reviewer. If you decide to write a book, figure out a way to get Eric excited about it and it will be much better than it might have been without him" (p. xx)
	Foreword The Silent Master: Awakening the Power Within, by Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim, New World Library, San Rafael, CA. 1994.

Tutorials

Sun Java System Application Server 8 Quick Start: A brief tutorial that let users confirm that the installation was successful and get their feet wet with the system.

XML Tutorial: XML, DTDs, Java APIs for DOM, SAX, and XSLT, plus filters, filter chaining, and how to convert a structured document into XML. When it was written, it was widely regarded as the best available introduction to state-of-the-art XML-processing technologies. Internet dog years being what they are, the technologies are no longer the easiest to use. But the tutorial is still a superb introduction to them. It was included in Addison Wesley's J2EE and Web Services tutorials. Most recently available at http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/docs.html
 

Articles

Data Binding
Converting an XML schema into Java classes. An explanation of APIs designed by Mark Reinhold.
http://java.sun.com/xml/jaxp/dist/1.0.1/docs/binding/DataBinding.html

Understanding the TreeModel
A guide for using the Swing Tree component, co-authored with Tom Santos and Steve Wilson.
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/jtree/

Understanding Containers
Using window, frame, and dialogs. Based on an interview with Amy Fowler.
http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/containers

Whitepapers

Java Web Start Development Guide
Building rich clients that can be updated with the ease of browser-based applications.

Migrating from Java 1.3 to 1.5
A compendium of issues and their resolutions.

Application Server 8 Quick Start Guide
A 5-page guide to confirm that installation was successful and introduce the application server.

Unpublished Papers

Merging Technical Support and Technical Publications
A proposal for a work model that joins technical support and publications into a coherent team that addresses user needs, using web software, Wiki pages, and XML structures. Written for Sun Microsystems.Well-received by the support group.

Requirements for an Automated FAQ System
A paper describing the structural underpinnings of an automated FAQ system that would also allow for human interaction. Written for the knowledge engineering group at Sun and delivered to the group developing forums

Future of the Knowledge-Based Web
A series of unpublished articles on the future of knowledge-based technologies, showing how topic maps will transform the nature of the web and how we use it (written before finding out that there is no coherent agreement on the topics maps model).

JavaWorld Articles

JavaOne 2001 Conference Wrap Up
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaone01/j1-01-wrapup.html

 

Cool APIs increase Java's functionality
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaone01/j1-01-coolapis.html

 

Language improvements and models make great Java.http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaone01/j1-01-improvements_p.html
 

 

Java Web Services
http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/javaone01/j1-01-apis.html
 

 

Breaking news in XML
JavaWorld 08 March 2000
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-03-2000/jw-03-xmlshow.html

 

Use constant types for safer and cleaner code
JavaWorld 20 September 1999
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-09-1999/jw-09-cooltools.html

 

Can HotSpot jumpstart your Java applications?
JavaWorld 09 June 1999
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-06-1999/jw-06-hotspot.html

 

Sun granted injunction against Microsoft
JavaWorld 01 December 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-12-1998/jw-12-injunction.html

 

Perspective: Sun and Microsoft duke it out in court
JavaWorld 01 October 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-10-1998/jw-10-injunction.html

 

Sun vs. Microsoft, Round 1
JavaWorld 01 October 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-10-1998/jw-10-sunvsms.html

 

HotSpot: A new breed of virtual machine
JavaWorld 01 March 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-03-1998/jw-03-hotspot.html

 

How to implement state-dependent behavior
JavaWorld 01 August 1997
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-08-1997/jw-08-stated.html

 

Create enumerated constants in Java
JavaWorld 01 July 1997.
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-07-1997/jw-07-enumerated.html

 

JavaOne offers advancements, mind benders, and disappointments
JavaWorld 01 May 1997
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-05-1997/jw-05-javaone-armstrong.html

 

A Programmer's Preview Guide to the Hot Technical Sessions at JavaOne
JavaOne Today, 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone98/j1-98-preview.armstrong.html

 

As I see it, day one
JavaOne Today 2000
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone00/j1-00-seeitday1.html

 

As I see it, day two
JavaOne Today 2000
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone00/j1-00-seeitday2.html

 

As I see it, day three
JavaOne Today 2000
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone00/j1-00-seeitday3.html

 

As I see it, day four
JavaOne Today 2000
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone00/j1-00-seeitday4.html

 

As I see it, wrap-up
JavaOne Today 2000
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone00/j1-00-seeitwrap.html

 

Java Apps Get Help!
JavaOne Today 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone98/j1-98-help.html

 

Collections API Redefines Coding Standards
JavaOne Today 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone98/j1-98-collections.html

 

With HotSpot, the JVM is faster than a speeding bullet!
JavaOne Today 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone98/j1-98-hotspot.html

 

JavaOne '98: Best of Show
JavaOne Today 1998
http://www.javaworld.com/javaone98/j1-98-bestofshow.html