Shay Shmeltzer

The cat is out of the bag, and it is a cool cat - JDeveloper 11g is now out in production and you can get it from OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/index.html But once you got it what's the next step? Where do... shay.shmeltzer

One thing you rarely get to do at OOW as an Oracle Employee is actually attend sessions - after all you have your hands full with your own sessions, demoground and meetings. So I didn't get to go to any... shay.shmeltzer

If you are an Oracle Forms developer wondering about your future carer path here are some suggestions for sessions at OOW that you might find interesting. Specifically sessions that I think will help you get over any initial fears you... shay.shmeltzer

The next week is one of the busiest week of the year - it's the OOW week. One of the nice things in this conference is the opportunity it gives us to directly meet with customers and get an insight... shay.shmeltzer

You might have noticed that I didn't blog for quite a while now. The reason is OOW - this is always the busiest time of the year for us creating slides, developing demos for our sessions, and for me also... shay.shmeltzer

Tired of looking at the summer Olympics? Here is an alternative, watch the fastest and strongest Java development framework - Oracle ADF 11g. Last week I did a web seminar for our partners showing off Oracle ADF 11g - you... shay.shmeltzer

Whenever I finish showing an ADF 11g demo to people who are working on enterprise applications like Oracle E-Business Suite or Peoplesoft or Siebel - the first question I get is "can we use ADF with our existing application". Basically... shay.shmeltzer

If you are an Oracle Partner working either as an ISV or SI and you are wondering about the future of enterprise application development at Oracle you might want to join us tomorrow (Thu) at 11:00am PDT for an online... shay.shmeltzer

Several of the Oracle ACEs that work intensively with ADF have started a group dedicated to ADF Development Methodology. Their immediate call to action is running an ADF Methodology session at Oracle OpenWorld as part of the un-conference program. You... shay.shmeltzer

The schedule builder application for Oracle OpenWorld and Oracle Develop is up and running. One good reason to use this tool and use it early is to make sure you get into the sessions and hands-on labs you are interested... shay.shmeltzer

Don't get too excited - it is still not JDeveloper 11g - it's just the 10.1.3.4 version that contains some bug fixes for the 10.1.3 editions. Check out the fix-list here and go to OTN to download if you have... shay.shmeltzer

On OTN some asked how to create a selectOneChoice item from an object that relates to another object when using JPA and ADF Faces. Here is the quick how-to. We'll use the default Employees and Departments table from the HR... shay.shmeltzer

Now that BEA and WebLogic are part of Oracle, what is going to happen to the yearly conference BEA held for developers? Well it got merged into the Oracle Develop conference this year at OOW. Last month when I posted... shay.shmeltzer

For the past several years we've been running the OTN Developer Days across the US and Canada with great success. Well the time has come for an update of the material, so Lynn from our team did an update of... shay.shmeltzer

So now the picture is clearer about what Oracle is going to do with the various products we got from BEA. (If you missed the webcast check the replay here. JDeveloper is still Oracle's strategic IDE and since we now... shay.shmeltzer

Welcome to my new/old blog. What's new? Well the main thing you'll be noticing is the new color schema and layout - everything else should function just as before including all the entries and the URLs. But underneath the blogs.oracle.com... shay.shmeltzer