Steve Muench, author of O'Reilly's "Building Oracle XML Applications",is Consulting Product Manager on the Business Components for JavaDevelopment Team at Oracle Corporation and Oracle's lead TechnicalEvangelist for XML. In his twelve years at Oracle, he's been involvedin the support, development, and evangelism of Oracle's applicationdevelopment tools and database. He's been a driving force in helpingOracle development teams from the database server, to applicationserver, to tools, to packaged applications weave XML sensibly intotheir future development plans and to adopt a component-baseddevelopment architecture for the future.