Recent Posts by Grant Ronald

I've got an early start tomorrow to travel to Dublin for the Irish Oracle User Group.  I'll be giving an insight in Forms, Java, ADF and migration with "Forms to Java and ADF, how, why and what skills do you need." Hopefully see you there!

I'm pleased to announce we have just launched a new series of online learning aids for Oracle ADF.  The ADF Insider Essentials series is a collection of short live demonstrations of the essential skills, tips and techniques that developers and their teams will require for building ADF applications.  Not only will this series act as a googleable list of common ADF recipes, but can also serve as a valuable learning aid to bridge the gap between the formal education of, forexampl...

I’m pleased to announce we have just launched a new series of online learning aids for Oracle ADF.  The ADF Insider Essentials series is a collection of short live demonstrations of the essential skills, tips and techniques that you and your team will require for building ADF applications.  Not only will this series act as a googleable list of common ADF recipes, but can also serve as valuable learning aid to bridge the gap between the formal education of, for example, an...

I’ll be delivering a full day’s ADF Masterclass on behalf of the UKOUG on the 11th May in the UK.  This will be a full day of presentation and instructor lead demonstrations starting from the basics and finishing up with some advanced ADF topics.  The day will include building business services, validation, searching and filtering data, list of values, writing customer business events, application flow, templates, reused, building UI pages, layout containers, graphs, maps,...

For those of you coming to the ADF Hands on training on the 22nd March in London, there was a link to the prerequisites.  Unfortunately, in a reshuffle of content on OTN, this page was removed.  So, over the next day or so I’m hoping to the pull together the relevant information into this blog post.  So keep checking back! Firstly, you need to being your laptop with you to do the hands on exercises.  No laptop, no hands on. Recommended 2GB RAM running Microsoft Windows XP SP2,...

Doesn’t time fly!  While you might have been happily running your Forms 10g applications for about 5 years or so now, the end of premier support is creeping up and you need to start planning for a move to Oracle Forms 11g. The premier support end date in December 31st 2011 and this is documented in Note: 1290974.1 available from MOS. So how much of an impact is this going to be?  Maybe not as much as you think.  While Forms 11g is based on WebLogic Server (WLS),10g was based ...

We have just released an official certification exam for Oracle ADF Development.  This exam is aimed that those who are already getting hands-on with ADF and would like an official certification of their development skills. I was involved in writing some of the exam questions and this was an interesting experience.  We were looking to test not only a knowledge of the framework, but also a practical application of that knowledge.  Trying to do that in a clear question which...

One possible failure point in ADF applications (and I’ve seen happen) is getting Web designers to build the UI without any knowledge of what ADF does.  The resulting design may look pretty but might be virtually impossible to implement using ADF. To help address this Oracle have released a set of Visio templates which help guide you in “Fusion”/ADF look and feel.  I’ve been lucky enough to have some of our usability teams mock up these templates for some ADF projects I’ve been...

I’m please to announce that the UK are running a free ADF training day in the UK on the 22nd of March.  Places are limited (only 14), so this is about as 1-1 as you  can realistically get!  Training will be “hands-on” so bring your laptops with JDeveloper and a database.  Details of the event and registration can be found here.