Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Why I Wrote the Book

Beyond what I said in the front-matter of the book, Expert Oracle and Java, Programming Secure Oracle Applications in Java, I have other agendas. Perhaps one being that desire to have my skills and accomplishments recognized... it would be an illusion if I pretended that vanity didn't enter my psyche. I have a bit more altruistic goals as well. For one, I wanted to provide tools that you, my peer programmers can use, collected in one volume. Unfortunately, you will not find the book to be organized as a handy reference guide, because of my other goal. My primary goal is to teach, to have you delve down deep into application security issues and to apply some practical coding practices to address the issues. A final goal that I have is definitely selfish -- I want to learn. I am a lifelong student, and this book provided a focus not just for pulling together what I knew, but also for exploring and learning what I had not previously known.

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