Andrej Koelewijn links me to this blog "Dive into BC4J". Turns out, Oracle has just submitted a new JSR "A Standard Data Binding and Data Access Facility for J2EE".  In true capitalist form they've submitted a standard to something that they already have in the lab.  Check out this viewlet for JDeveloper 9.0.5 and prepared to be stunned!

I just got in the mail Oracle's developer magazine, it came with a CD.  I was going to throw the CD in the trash without opening it.  Next time, I'll think twice about doing that.