Just finishing up travel plans for upcoming events. I'll be presenting at the OTN Developer Days in Irvine, CA on the 6th of April, information can be found here for the Irvine event and others. Also will be at Collaborate 2010 in Las Vegas from April 18th to the 22nd, information on that can be found here.
On the materials front, I just completed the inaugural session for the new "ADF Insider" series. In this series of extended web sessions (avg 30mins - 1hr long) the ADF expert team, and potentially some recognized industry experts will provide details on some of the more advanced topics surrounding implementing utilizing the Oracle Application Development Framework. My desire with this project is to have a series of sessions that go a step further in providing information not addressed in existing documentation.
In this spirit, the first session covers how to integrate ADF with a SOA environment. Included in this are multiple hands-on demos covering how to expose ADF business components into the SCA, consuming SOA artifacts (webservices/composites) into an ADF web application, and finally how to create a custom "human task" (from the Oracle SOA Suite) activity interface.
You can find a link to the session here.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Fear the code ninja!!
Had this passed on to me by a colleague, absolutely hilarious even if it is a less-then-veiled promo for ADF...
Enter the Code Ninja!
Enter the Code Ninja!
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Please make sure that the annotations are valid.
Interesting issue I came across today. Was providing support for a deployment that was going difficultly. Beyond the issues of getting the configuration repaired so the ADF Runtime installer could operate properly, when trying to deploy the application they wanted to put on the server we received the following:
Interesting error, and after confirming that the ADF Runtime did indeed install correctly, I had to check some of my own developed applications to confirm my suspicion. The resource servlet utilized by ADF 11g is "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.webapp.ResourceServlet", it is no longer the Oracle labeled one, (which makes sense since we donated the Trinidad libraries). Apparently, this must have been a migrated application that failed to update this particular entry and was utilizing old libraries in development...
C'est la vie!
"There was a failure when processing annotations for application [Webapp name redacted]. Please make sure that the annotations are valid. The error is oracle.adf.view.faces.webapp.ResourceServlet"
Interesting error, and after confirming that the ADF Runtime did indeed install correctly, I had to check some of my own developed applications to confirm my suspicion. The resource servlet utilized by ADF 11g is "org.apache.myfaces.trinidad.webapp.ResourceServlet", it is no longer the Oracle labeled one, (which makes sense since we donated the Trinidad libraries). Apparently, this must have been a migrated application that failed to update this particular entry and was utilizing old libraries in development...
C'est la vie!
Monday, February 1, 2010
Oracle plans to continue support for SUN development products
For those of you that missed the webcast last Wednesday (1/27) Oracle made several key announcements regarding the future of SUN products now that they're under the control of Oracle. Of particular interest were comments on the future of the Netbeans IDE and the Glassfish App Server.
Oracle has reiterated it's commitment to the open-source community and plans to continue support of the Netbeans IDE as a targeted open-source IDE supporting all of the Java SE/EE/TV/Mobile/FX platforms and technologies, including the Glassfish application server. Netbeans will join the suite of Oracle development tools including the award winning JDeveloper, and the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse becoming yet another option in the strategy of "Productivity with Choice".
Obviously at this point, JDeveloper is and will continue to be the choice for Oracle based development but it will be interesting to see to what extent the Netbeans IDE receives tooling to support core technologies like the Oracle Application Development Framework as well as what key features from Netbeans find their way into JDeveloper.
As for Glassfish, I would predict to see increased support for the container as a spot solution for departmental deployments similar in nature to the positioning of MySQL and potentially as an alternative for testing server deployments in lieu of utilizing full blown Weblogic installations all over the place.
For those of you asking about kenai.com there is really not much more information available other than that which is posted on the kenai site. The site, along with Netbeans integration are going to be discontinued for public-facing use and brought in-house to continue to be used and evaluated.
For recaps of key subjects, feel free to review the webcasts page on the Oracle site at: Oracle/Sun Webcasts.
Oracle has reiterated it's commitment to the open-source community and plans to continue support of the Netbeans IDE as a targeted open-source IDE supporting all of the Java SE/EE/TV/Mobile/FX platforms and technologies, including the Glassfish application server. Netbeans will join the suite of Oracle development tools including the award winning JDeveloper, and the Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse becoming yet another option in the strategy of "Productivity with Choice".
Obviously at this point, JDeveloper is and will continue to be the choice for Oracle based development but it will be interesting to see to what extent the Netbeans IDE receives tooling to support core technologies like the Oracle Application Development Framework as well as what key features from Netbeans find their way into JDeveloper.
As for Glassfish, I would predict to see increased support for the container as a spot solution for departmental deployments similar in nature to the positioning of MySQL and potentially as an alternative for testing server deployments in lieu of utilizing full blown Weblogic installations all over the place.
For those of you asking about kenai.com there is really not much more information available other than that which is posted on the kenai site. The site, along with Netbeans integration are going to be discontinued for public-facing use and brought in-house to continue to be used and evaluated.
For recaps of key subjects, feel free to review the webcasts page on the Oracle site at: Oracle/Sun Webcasts.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Larry Ellison to Unveil Oracle + Sun Strategy
Okay, I've been somewhat lax in getting new posts up for quite some time (I apologize) but plan to be better about it in the future. With the significant items coming up both at the office and personally, and then the holidays, my blogging was one of the casualties.
In any case, one of the things I've been getting bombarded with is questions regarding the proposed Sun acquisition by Oracle and what it's going to mean for both companies and their aligning products and efforts. Obviously I've been unable to comment on these, but it appears that time is coming to an end. Next week (Jan 27) Larry Ellison, along with executives from both organizations will be hosting a live event (which will be webcast) to unveil the details behind the planned acquisition.
This will be of great interest to anyone invested in either of the companies products, more details can be found here.
Cheers!
In any case, one of the things I've been getting bombarded with is questions regarding the proposed Sun acquisition by Oracle and what it's going to mean for both companies and their aligning products and efforts. Obviously I've been unable to comment on these, but it appears that time is coming to an end. Next week (Jan 27) Larry Ellison, along with executives from both organizations will be hosting a live event (which will be webcast) to unveil the details behind the planned acquisition.
This will be of great interest to anyone invested in either of the companies products, more details can be found here.
Cheers!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Larry Ellison Comments on Sun Acquisition
Well, obviously we're still under gag orders regarding the acquisition. However, there is nothing that prevents me from pointing out a transcript on the open web of a Reuters interview with Larry Ellison regarding it. I read through it and it answers a lot of the questions I've been getting regarding the future of both companies. Find it here:
Interview
ta!
Interview
ta!
Thursday, March 12, 2009
EMEA Partner Training - Dusseldorf Germany
Well I just got back from presenting a week long blast of JDeveloper + ADF for European partners in Dusseldorf, Germany. It was my first time in Germany and while cold, it was quite interesting. At least the food was good, mostly meat and potatoes and lots of it fried. Yummy.
The training went well, the attendees seemed very interested in the material and we had a wide enough range of topics that everyone got something out of it. The newly initiated got the high level details and those that had been using the suite for a few versions got a deep dive on the new features (task flows, libraries, the ADF controller, phase listeners, etc).
I'm very pleased to be involved in this aspect of the product. When I was in consulting the biggest hurdle I had with getting clients to buy in on the Oracle development stack was the learning curve. With this week long event, people are introduced to the framework and the hands-on materials give them enough exposure to actually jump right into development when they leave.
Back home it is the usual, supporting key adopters, and our internal development. I just completed a paper for ODTUG on JDeveloper 11g and the integrated WebLogic container. I think it is going to be published in May for the conference. I've been doing a lot more writing lately and thoroughly enjoy it as well. At some point I'm going to have to begin publishing some of those materials online as well. When I do that I'll link them in through here.
Preparations for Oracle Open World have already begun. If you're utilizing Oracle technology that is the one conference to be sure you don't miss.
Well, back to the mill stone...
-Shaun
The training went well, the attendees seemed very interested in the material and we had a wide enough range of topics that everyone got something out of it. The newly initiated got the high level details and those that had been using the suite for a few versions got a deep dive on the new features (task flows, libraries, the ADF controller, phase listeners, etc).
I'm very pleased to be involved in this aspect of the product. When I was in consulting the biggest hurdle I had with getting clients to buy in on the Oracle development stack was the learning curve. With this week long event, people are introduced to the framework and the hands-on materials give them enough exposure to actually jump right into development when they leave.
Back home it is the usual, supporting key adopters, and our internal development. I just completed a paper for ODTUG on JDeveloper 11g and the integrated WebLogic container. I think it is going to be published in May for the conference. I've been doing a lot more writing lately and thoroughly enjoy it as well. At some point I'm going to have to begin publishing some of those materials online as well. When I do that I'll link them in through here.
Preparations for Oracle Open World have already begun. If you're utilizing Oracle technology that is the one conference to be sure you don't miss.
Well, back to the mill stone...
-Shaun
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