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The Year of the ADF Developer

A common question I hear is "where can I find skilled ADF people". Like any "new" (and its not really that new) technology, there is gradual uptake of the...

A common question I hear is "where can I find skilled ADF people". Like any "new" (and its not really that new) technology, there is gradual uptake of the skills and advanced skills, of course, take longer to develop. However, one thing I noticed over the last two Oracle Worlds was a subtle change in ADF presentations. We're seeing less and less of "so what is ADF" and more and more "so in our application we do it like this". There is a definite change and futhermore, I'm...

Book review of Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simpl

I've just finished reading Sten Vesterli's Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple and here is my review of the book. First thing to note is...

I've just finished reading Sten Vesterli's Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple and here is my review of the book. First thing to note is that the book fills a new space in the Oracle ADF book market. Rather than teaching you Oracle ADF, it assumes, for the most part, that you are already familiar with ADF and that you are looking to kick off a real project and want to know how to "do things right". Having said that, the book isn't a guarentee to...

Reviewing Orace ADF Enterprise Application Development Made Simple Book

Although I was a technical reviewer of Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development-Made Simple (by Sten Vesterli) it is nice to get the finished article in...

Although I was a technical reviewer of Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development-Made Simple (by Sten Vesterli) it is nice to get the finished article in your hands as a real tangible book.Personally, on a sun lounger with a Dan Brown book I can read 300 pages a day, but technical books are a different beast and I find it hard to get through them with the same vigour. However, I'm up to chapter 7 in Sten's book and so far it's holding my interest. He writes in an almost...

Three new ADF Insider Essentials on YouTube Channel

I've uploaded three ADF Insider Essentials onto our YouTube channel.How to delete a node in a hierarchical tree component.Handing the OK and Cancel buttons in...

I've uploaded three ADF Insider Essentials onto our YouTube channel.How to delete a node in a hierarchical tree component.Handing the OK and Cancel buttons in an af:dialog popupStrategy for implementing global buttonsThese are ADF Insider Essentials that we originally loaded on OTN but we can now upload larger files (each of these is about 20 minutes long). More ADF Insider Essentials in the pipeline so watch this space!

New JDeveloper/ADF book hits the bookshelves

I've just received a nice new copy of Sten Vesterli's book Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple. I was one of the technical reviewers of...

I've just received a nice new copy of Sten Vesterli's book Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple. I was one of the technical reviewers of the book but I'm looking forward to be able to read it end-to-end in good old fashioned book format this coming week.The book bridges the gap between those existing books that describe Oracle ADF features, and real world ADF development. So, source control, bug tracking, estimating, testing, security, packaging etc...

Which Development Tool Should You Be Using??

This question comes up time and time again, should I be using ADF, JDeveloper, Java, Eclipse, Forms, Apex, Web Center? Confused?The UKOUG are running a Special...

This question comes up time and time again, should I be using ADF, JDeveloper, Java, Eclipse, Forms, Apex, Web Center? Confused?The UKOUG are running a Special event on the 22nd June in London with some of the leading experts in Oracle development. The theme of the day is Oracle Development Tools Landscape and covers topics such as Forms migration, ADF as part of Oracle's Fusion initiative, customer experiences, SQL developer, Web Center and...

Oracle Virtual Developer Day - Material now available on Demand!

A couple of weeks ago we ran a virtual developer day on line with some of the world's leading ADF, Forms and Fusion Middleware experts presenting and demoing on...

A couple of weeks ago we ran a virtual developer day on line with some of the world's leading ADF, Forms and Fusion Middleware experts presenting and demoing on a range of topics. The content is now available on-demand. This means you have instant access to over a full day of conference and training material delivered right to your desktop.Topics include ADF unit testing, Building Process Centric Applications with BPM and Oracle ADF, ADF Skinning and JavaScript, ADF Binding...

Scottish Oracle User Group Experiences

Back from the Scottish Oracle User Group which was held in the Oracle/Sun offices in Linlithgow near Edinburgh. Was impressed with a great turnout to this...

Back from the Scottish Oracle User Group which was held in the Oracle/Sun offices in Linlithgow near Edinburgh. Was impressed with a great turnout to this event, looked to be about 200 delegates spread over 5 or 6 streams. I started the day off with a Dummies Guide to ADF and was pleased to see a great turnout where we were having to squeeze people in. This is actually quite a difficult presentation since its like trying to teach "The Oracle Database" in 45 minutes - it...

Calling all Forms and ADF users in Scotland - free event!

Wednesday 8th June I'm in Edinburgh delivering 3 sessions at the Scottish Oracle user group. This is a free event (yes, FREE) and I'll be covering a "Dummies...

Wednesday 8th June I'm in Edinburgh delivering 3 sessions at the Scottish Oracle user group. This is a free event (yes, FREE) and I'll be covering a "Dummies Guide to ADF", "Forms to ADF: why, how and what skills do you need", and "ADF tips and tricks".So if you have an investment in Oracle Forms, or are interested in Oracle ADF, the development framework Oracle is using for much of their development, then this event might be for you. I'm also going to check out "Forms to...