OTN TechBlog

If you were at Oracle OpenWorld you may have heard tell of Thomas Kurian's professed "Christmas present for developers," which he and other development VPs referred to obliquely. Literally minutes before I took leave for holiday last week, this present was delivered in the form of new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Previews, including:

- Oracle JDeveloper 11g Tech Preview 3, the first release to include design time support for Oracle WebCenter as well as SOA - in fact, JDeveloper and SOA Suite have now been integrated, thereby permitting test runs of SOA apps (by virtue of an included OC4J install) directly from the design-time
environment. (See Release Notes.)

- OC4J 11g Tech Preview, which includes all the
containers, APIs, and services mandated by the Java EE 5.0 spec and has enhanced support for the Spring Framework. (See Release Notes.)

-  Oracle TopLink 11g Tech Preview 3, now fully compliant with the JPA spec (which is in turn part of the Java EE 5 EJB 3.0 spec) (see Release Notes).

Download away - this is really good news as we've all been on pins and needles for this stuff.