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New and Cool in JDeveloper 10g

Just saw Roel Stalman and Brian Fry of the JDeveloper team offer a very high-level (who could ask otherwise in less than an hour?) but fairly detailed overview...

Just saw Roel Stalman and Brian Fry of the JDeveloper team offer a very high-level (who could ask otherwise in less than an hour?) but fairly detailed overview of the new features in Oracle JDeveloper 10g 10.1.3. (You can download a Developer Preview from OTN right now.) The list is fairly comprehensive and amazing, and Roel and Brian (pictured at left just prior to the session) punctuated some of the highlights with demos - of JDev's tight integration with CVS, its much...

JavaOne- McNealy Speaks

As JavaOne McNealy keynotes go, this one did not set the world on fire. Perhaps of most interest was the info about the most popular tech sessions from the...

As JavaOne McNealy keynotes go, this one did not set the world on fire. Perhaps of most interest was the info about the most popular tech sessions from the previous day, the most popular being the one on Java Business Integration (JBI). Here's the abstract:"Learn about Java Business Integration (JBI) from the co-spec leads of the expert group that wrote the specification.Improving TCO, business flexibility, efficiency, and transparency is what enterprise integration is all...

New Podcast on BPEL

We've just externed a new OTN TechCast (podcast) interview with Oracle BPEL expert Dave Shaffer. Among other things, Dave explains why J2EE developers should...

We've just externed a new OTN TechCast (podcast) interview with Oracle BPEL expert Dave Shaffer. Among other things, Dave explains why J2EE developers should care about BPEL, the architecture of a BPEL "business process," and how a BPEL business process is related to/differs from a conventional "Web service." Good stuff for people getting started with BPEL.Listen to the podcast mp3, or subscribe to Oracle's OTN TechCasts via RSS, here.

JDeveloper Now Free of Charge

For those of you out there who have yet to see the news dribble out in the trade press (a formal press release has not yet hit the wire), Oracle has made Oracle...

For those of you out there who have yet to see the news dribble out in the trade press (a formal press release has not yet hit the wire), Oracle has made Oracle JDeveloper free for all developers. Not just a free download -- free period. This is really good news! More information is available via this pricing FAQ.Orablogger Sue Harper is tracking some of the discussion forum activity on this news at her blog. More blogging on the topic is sure to follow; stay tuned to the...

Linux Dev Update: OCFS2 & SLES9 SP2

One of one my development friends 'down under' commented on the length of my last blog on the adoption of Oracle on Linux and PHP. I'll try and be a little more...

One of one my development friends 'down under' commented on the length of my last blog on the adoption of Oracle on Linux and PHP. I'll try and be a little more succinct this time ;-)Oracle Cluster File System 2 is currently included in the Novell SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 daily kernel builds. I asked Wim Coekaerts for a quick update - apparently they have done internal testing of the SLES9 SP2 code with OCFS2, and were able to do a 2 node RAC install including a shared...

Oracle Database 10g R2 "Sneak Peek"

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is right around the corner, and to help you prepare for an evaluation or migration, OTN has made several technical resources...

Oracle Database 10g Release 2 is right around the corner, and to help you prepare for an evaluation or migration, OTN has made several technical resources available today:New technical white papers in various categories (performance, manageability, application development, etc.)An OTN TechCast (podcast interview) with Dr. DBA himself, Ken Jacobs, in which Ken discusses his favorite Release 2 features--and also why developers who are unfamiliar with Oracle should be taking a...

Installfest in Joburg; PHP in Amsterdam

OTN's Chief Installfest Officer, Todd Trichler, checks in with a report:May 2005 was a very busy month for me, with OTN sponsoring both the International PHP...

OTN's Chief Installfest Officer, Todd Trichler, checks in with a report:May 2005 was a very busy month for me, with OTN sponsoring both the International PHP Conference in Amsterdam, and the first-ever LinuxWorld in Johannesburg, South Africa. A lot of OTN members are very good with languages: C, Java, .Net, Perl, PHP...Having grown up in Joburg, I was exposed to languages of a different sort: Afrikaans, German, Venda, Xhosa, Zulu, and so on. South Africa has 11 official...

OTN Updates LAF

We just rolled out an improved, cleaner LAF for OTN. Most noticeably, a broad array of "deep links" have moved into a horizontal menu bar across the top of the...

We just rolled out an improved, cleaner LAF for OTN. Most noticeably, a broad array of "deep links" have moved into a horizontal menu bar across the top of the content area. It should be even easier to get around now.

OTN TechCasts Are Here

Podcasters, rejoice: podcasting has come to OTN in the form of TechCasts.In the next several months I'll be interviewing some of the technical minds at Oracle...

Podcasters, rejoice: podcasting has come to OTN in the form of TechCasts.In the next several months I'll be interviewing some of the technical minds at Oracle about recent technology announcements. For example, the first podcast consists of a chat with product manager Shaun Smith, about Oracle's effort to provide EJB 3.0 tools under the Eclipse license. Shaun also goes into detail about why EJB 3.0 is such a huge improvement over EJB 2.x for crafting a persistence layer in...