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We recently had a case that required a new version of an Oracle ESB service alongside the old version to provide backwards compatibility. Unfortunately, this is not supported for 10g (10.1.3.4.0) ESB service; it will be with composite services in the 11g SOA suite. One way to accomplish this is to include both service interfaces, [...]

Oracle Fusion Applications are on the move. They were demonstrated at Oracle Open World 2009, they are current being tested with dozens if not hundreds of organizations and they have been promised for general availability later in 2010. Screenshots of selected modules are available on the internet, for example at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/oracleopenworld09/sets/72157622462805751/. Fusion Applications are of interest [...]

The recent ADF 11gR1 PS1 release introduced a component we have been waiting for: the inputText with AutoSuggest. An inputText component that will present suggested values to the user depending on whatever text the user has already entered. The implementation in ADF of the functionality that got AJAX started, based on the original Google Suggest [...]

Following on the heels of Luc's excellent post on the new ADF 11g carousel component - http://technology.amis.nl/blog/6514/jdeveloper-11112-carousel-component-as-master-and-detail - is another article that shows off this visually attractive component, using it in a slightly different way. Even though the most logical application of the ADF 11gR1 PS1 carousel component is to use for displaying images, the component [...]

In this post I introduce to you one of the new ADF Rich Client components and one way to use it: The Carousel. You can display a set of images through a carousel, an animation effect that switches the emphasis successively between images as the user moves the mouse across them. You can also have the carousel invoke [...]

Last month during Oracle Open World I wrote an article on the upcoming features of PatchSet 1 for JDeveloper 11g: . Now this release has been published and is delivering on those promises. For an overview of all (?) new features, take a look at What's New. It is a fairly dry, emotionless, factual list [...]

On our blog, we have been discussing the new hierarchical query functionality in Oracle Database 11g Release 2, using Recursive Suquery Factoring. Instead of using CONNECT BY and its close associates such as START WITH, PRIOR, LEVEL and more exotic comrades like SYS_CONNECT_BY_PATH, CONNECT_BY_ROOT and NOCYCLE this release gave us a new, less proprietary and [...]

Last Tuesday we did a Preview of the upcoming OPP (Oracle PL/SQL Programming) Conference which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia soon. This preview took place in our office in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. About 17 people attended this free preview. At regular intervals we do free "Knowledge Center" presentations. Keep a close eye on our Agenda [...]

  Vorige week was in San Francisco het hoogtepunt van het Oracle jaar: Oracle Open World 2009, de grootste IT conferentie ter wereld. Tijdens deze conferentie ontvouwde Oracle haar strategie en visie voor de komende periode, lieten product managers de nabije toekomst zien van bestaande en nieuwe producten, deelden honderden specialisten hun ervaringen en toonden leveranciers [...]

Next month, I will visit Australia and Singapore to present on SOA and the Oracle SOA Suite - to Oracle database developers. In this one-day-long seminar, I introduce the key concepts and objectives of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) as well as the Oracle SOA Suite 11g to an audience of database professionals. Whether you are a DBA [...]

Maandag 26 oktober start bij AMIS de vijf-daagse ADF 11g training (ontwikkeld in samenwerking met Chris Muir van SAGE - Perth, Australië). Tijdens deze training zullen Luc Bors en Lucas Jellema deelnemers ‘ADF enablen’ - op weg helpen met dit strategische ontwikkelplatform van Oracle. "ADF 11g is the cornerstone of Oracle Fusion Applications - and most [...]

  One of the sessions I am (co-)presenting at Oracle Open World 2009 is on ‘applying the concepts of SOA to and achieving the SOA objectives with User Interfaces’. What goes for SOA and typical programmatic (web)services can be applied to User Interface components to a large extent. Decoupling - cross location, cross technology, cross development [...]

  James Gosling, the "father of Java", is the hero, the star, the god of many Java conferences such as JavaOne. I have seen the adoration and worship, as recently as four months ago at JavaOne 2009. Yesterday I witnessed a performance by James Gosling in a very different setting. At Oracle Open World (at least [...]

  Today I presented on what is possibly the hottest story on the Oracle Database 11gR2 release: Edition Based Redefinition (EBR). EBR allows us to add a whole new dimension to the database - the Edition (that complements the existing dimensions of schema and object type). Every database object (well, almost every database object - not [...]

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces a new feature called Recursive Subquery Factoring. My collegue Lucas sees it as a substitute for Connect By based hierarchical querying, Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 - new style hierarchical querying using Recursive Subquery Factoring. When I first was thinking about a pratical use for this feature I couldn’t come up [...]

  Last Friday I attended a product briefing at Oracle HQ that prepared me for today’s Oracle Open World 2009 keynote presentation by Ted Farrell on development tools and middleware. Oracle will soon (some time November?) release what it calls Patch Set 1 for the Fusion Middleware 11g stack and this article goes into the new [...]

  It will be my last presentation at Oracle Open World 2009 - how to turn any ADF application into a SaaS application - an application suitable for deployment ‘on the cloud - available to users from different organizations’. One of my statements is that most if not all applications benefit from applying those same SaaS [...]

My OpenWorld 2009 started out this morning with a keynote by Tom Kyte named "What Are We Still Doing Wrong?". A lighthearted presentation with lots of funny examples of bad coding practises. After that, things heated up with an "OSB Deep Dive", presented in her usual inspired - and inspiring - fashion by Deb Ayers, who clearly [...]

  This article is about APEX - some of my initial impressions from the pending (deep into 2010) APEX 4.0 release. And the title is in no way meant to be ironic, contrary perhaps to popular belief. Yesterday I saw a presentation/demonstration by Mike Hichwa and David Peake from the APEX team and it provided me [...]

  The Oracle Open World 2009 conference is almost underway. On Monday 12th October I will do two presentations, and I am done preparing the first one of them (the one that has actually sold one - probably scheduled in a small room).This presentation is one in which I introduce the key concepts and objectives of [...]