Cool camtasia demo on Shays Blog. Good details if you are interested in how to do PPR in ADF.

http://blogs.oracle.com/shay/2009/01/whenvalidateitem_trigger_in_ad.html

Going to be busy most of today lecturing to a packed house on the next release of JDeveloper which has WLS as the integrated server as well as a multitude of additions. I would guess there are somewhere on the order of 300+ people in the room and it's getting quite hot (we're on a break right now). I'll post more later on how it goes (so far so good).

-Shaun

Always something new...

So of course we're working on new versions of JDeveloper pretty much all the time but it amazes me the amount of scrutiny the releases have been receiving lately. I've already mentioned the fact that they are getting uptaken by internal developers but I sat in a meeting yesterday with the QA team and found out that in addition to the internal development efforts that QA has been building an app that takes the major points of pain from the internal development efforts, as well as our early adopters and blends them into a test application.

As they went through page after page, I kept nodding my head going "yeah, that is/was an issue" and at several points they indicated that they had logged bugs and would be able to verify appropriate functionality as it passed through QA.

Makes me feel good to know that our product is getting this kind of attention, and I sleep easier knowing the fact that when it rolls out the door that any issue brought up will have adequate attention to not be present.

-Shaun

Oracle Developer Days

There are still a great number of Oracle Developer Days coming up in various towns across the US. I'll be doing the one in Salt Lake City on April 14th. Terrific training and hands-on labs help make sure that a superior level of understanding of the framework is achieved than could ever be hoped for from just a regular presentation.

The remaining upcoming dates / locations are as follows:

26-Feb: New York City
03-Mar: Dallas
10-Mar: Saint Louis
17-Mar: Reston
31-Mar: Passadena
14-Apr: Salt Lake
16-Apr: Boston

I don't have a URL for the landing page for these handy but when I do, I'll post it!

-Shaun

Tip of the day: Don't perform a version migration and refactoring on your application at the same time...

WLS Architectures

Was having an interesting discussion this morning regarding WLS architectures. The discussion centered around the notion of if one should use multiple WLS installations (ie: separate domain/server for each) to manage a project that has the need to deploy different apps to different containers. Or to use a single domain installation with multiple managed servers under that domain.

Either way it should be a non-issue for JDeveloper to manage this as you can create multiple integrated server references by using the tools | preferences | run selection and then selecting "Edit Server Instances" and therein register each of the individual "integrated" servers. You can then through the application properties choose which server the application is bound to. You can even have JDev manage the lifecycle for these additional integrated servers via a checkbox when registering the servers with JDev.

Of course the developers wouldn't make it that easy as they're also requiring separate domain templates to be utilized...

All very interesting.