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News from the SOA, JEE, ADF, JDeveloper and Oracle Forms World

I'll be presenting a webinar on Thu 9th July on the new Forms 11g release. Topics will include strategy, new features and integration. If you want to get the low down on where we are going with Oracle Forms and what the new release is all about, this is the place to be.

I made the trip up to London today to watch the Oracle execs including President Charles Phillips and Thomas Kurian launch Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g.
There have been those who have been doubting the delivery of "Fusion" and what was important to see today was not just the launch of the platform and the tools but how much of the technology I'm inolved in (JDeveloper and ADF) is part of the Oracle stack.

The demo of SOA dropped into JDeveloper, the Web Center demo dropped into Jdeveloper and for those not in the know, the UI you were seeing in many of our dashboards was ADF Faces, built ontop of ADF and all designed from within JDeveloper.

For the tooling, the focus was on a "single development platform". It was also emphasised that the development focus is NOT on technology, but the business logic. Ted Farrell "Basically, what we're saying is we're trying to abstract our users building enterprise applications and Web applications from the underlying view technologies, which are constantly changing"

There was also a focus on the fact the much of the development is driven, not through code, but through metadata: Thomas Kurian "...it will allow changes to applications to be made at a higher, metadata level, rather than through changes in the underlying application code. Avoiding app customizations will lead to fewer incompatibilities between applications and relieve a major impediment to application upgrades."

Already media reports (here and here) are talking (favourably) about the release.

We're pleased to announce that Oracle Forms 11g is now live. As is JDeveloper 11gR1 and Fusion Middleware 11g.

Its be a long journey but we are there now!....Enjoy!

Next week I will be in Monetery at the ODTUG conference. I've got three presentations and one of those is a Masterclass on ADF. Below is a sneak preview of the application I will be building. You'll (hopefully) see me building a fully functioning application showing a full spectrum if ADF features - and the key is - no hard technology stuff.

Now, thats not to mean you'll never write Java when building an ADF application, but I want to show you how far you can get without touching a line of code: Maps, graphs, lists of values, validation, lookups, drag and drop, popups, integration with Excel and printer.

So, if you want a kick start on ADF, this might be the place to come.

A copy of Processing XML documents with JDeveloper 11g dropped through my letter box last week. A whole new area of JDeveloper I've personally never got into yet but hopefully I will be more fully enlightened after reading this.