In November of 2013 we hosted a multi-track virtual developer day dedicated to Oracle ADF.

With thousands of attendees and live question and answers with product managers, this has been a great success.

But for those who weren't able to tune in for the live event, we now offer the session on-demand on youtube,

Everything from an introduction to Oracle ADF to advanced tuning and debugging and from JDeveloper to Eclipse to Mobile.

Check out these play lists:

Track 1: Introduction to Oracle ADF (click to view playlist)

Track 2: Advanced ADF Topics (click to view playlist) 

Track 3: Oracle ADF Mobile (click to view playlist)

Track 4: Oracle ACEs on ADF (click to view playlist) 

Check out the content and let us know what you think.

With budget cuts all over the world less and less developers get to travel to conferences. So how do you keep up with the latest technical aspects of your development environment? Oracle to the rescue with our Virtual Developer Day.

 We are happy to announce the 2013 Oracle ADF Virtual Developer Days

Online sessions that include a live Q&A with product managers that will cover everything you need to know about Oracle ADF - all from the comfort of your office chair.

With sessions that cover best practices, tuning, mobile, Eclipse support and even some getting started information there is something in this day for every level of experience with Oracle ADF - you are sure to learn some new things too!

Sessions are delivered by Oracle product managers with a special track delivered by expert customers covering some advanced topics.

Check out the schedule and register for the event in your time zone.

Calling all Oracle partners.  If you want to become specialized in Oracle ADF, now is your chance with 8 ADF worshops running in EMEA in the last quarter of this year.  No excuses not to get skilled up and become a key Oracle partner in the middleware and ADF space.

If you are an Oracle ADF developer you should start planning on attending Oracle OpenWorld this year NOW!

We are lining up a great set of seminars that aim to provide new technical content to both the novice and the expert developer. A live complete list of Oracle ADF activities at OOW is here.

At last count there are close to 40 sessions focusing on Oracle ADF in the conference this year.

That's about 7 sessions every day for you attend - and that is not counting all the other topics that Oracle OpenWorld covers and that can be relevant to your daily work.

Some of the highlights of the event include:

Special Sunday user forum presented by ODTUG in collaboration with the Oracle ADF Enterprise Methodology Group. Featuring back to back sessions by experts in the community covering best practices and new techniques. Read more here.

(And also don't miss the ADF EMG get together that Oracle sponsors on Saturday night).

Monday will feature a keynote by Chris Tonas who leads the Oracle Java Development Tools organization giving a state-of-the-union overview of where we are and where we are going next.

Multiple hands-on labs - covering ADF Mobile, Data Visualization Components, ADF in Eclipse and more.

Demo ground where you can come and ask your questions and get answers directly from the product management team.

Lots of sessions covering everything from the "how to get started" through in-depth technical topics all the way to best practices and architecture tips.

Of course there are also the usual set of Oracle OpenWorld parties, with the Wed evening appreciation event featuring both Maroon 5 and The Black Keys. More about that show here.

Together with the great networking opportunities with your peers and with Oracle ACEs and Oracle personal, this is indeed becoming a must-attend event for Oracle ADF professionals.

See you in San Francisco.

With companies tightening their hold on budget, travel & events participation are at the top of the list for cuts. Realizing this, and the fact that we can't get every developer to come and attend one of our physical events, we are happy to offer you the opportunity to participate in our upcoming virtual developer day.

On Wed August 7th, we'll be hosting a full half day virtual conference on Mobile Application Development.

Focusing on developing iOS and Android applications with Java and Oracle ADF Mobile, this day will cover everything from considerations for choosing a mobile platform, architecture overview of Oracle's hybrid mobile solution, to deep dive into the building blocks of Oracle ADF Mobile and how you build applications with them. We'll close the day with a guided hands-on lab.

 You are invited to join us for free. Get a half day training that will transform you to become a mobile developer.

Click here to sign up.

Here is the agenda

9:00 a.m.	Keynote - Preparing to Go Mobile
9:30 a.m.	Introduction to Oracle ADF Moblie
10:30 a.m.	ADF Mobile - The Data Layer
11:15 a.m.	ADF Mobile - UI Design and Device Integration
12:00 p.m.	Hands-on Lab
1:00 p.m.	Event Close

As ADF customers continue to deliver production systems, we see an increased demand for training on ADF application design, architecture & best practices.

In response to these requests, the Oracle's ADF Product Management team is announcing the new ADF Architecture TV channel on YouTube, which will use weekly episodes to discuss over 100 topics that designers, architects, team leaders and senior ADF developers will gain value from.  This new format for online training delivers small consumable chunks for seasoned ADF practitioners beyond the ADF basics.

Oracle's ADF team continues with its unique goal of assisting customers at all levels of ADF adoption, from beginners requiring basic documentation & tutorials, from practitioners looking for different techniques and insider essentials presentations, to ADF developers migrating to ADF Mobile, & now senior ADF staff looking to share best practices, design and architectural patterns. We encourage you to subscribe to the ADF Architecture TV channel if you're ready to take your ADF designs to the next level.

We are very happy to announce the release of Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF 12c

This is a major new version for our tool and framework and contains a lot of new and enhanced features.

And while some of the features that were developed for 12c were backported into recent 11.1.2.4 and 11.1.1.7 releases - you'll still find a lot of new things in the 12c release.

Here are some highlights:

Core IDE:

• Support for JDK7 and Java EE 6 along with WebLogic 12c (and support for GlassFish too).
• New Look and Feel and various usability enhancements.
• Based on the OSGi infrastructure introduced in the 11.1.2.0 release this version adds even further integration with NetBeans code including new windowing system, profilers and the Matisse Swing editor.
• New Dependency viewer shows you how various files are related visually.
• New HTML 5 and CSS code editors.
• Support for Git version management
  
• Enhanced support for Maven - including integration of Maven with ADF apps.

New in Oracle ADF 12c:

• New ADF Faces components
• Layout - SpringBoard, PanelDrawer and PanelGridLayout
• Collections - List, and pagination table
  
• DVT - Sunburst, Treemap, timeline
• Other - Code editor, multi-file upload, unified link and button components
• New default skin (skyros) - simpler and faster, along with an improved skin editor
• Improved REST support - including new REST data control wizard
• Improved EJB/JPA based data control
• ADF BC now support defining components against an offline database and a new feature called viewObject Finders

And there are many other new features all across the map.

Check out our New Features Doc.

Download the new version and try it out - we are sure you'll like it.

Also - join us for the official 12c Launch event on July 31st.

Oracle Forms... anyone remember that?  Well, we do and we wanted to share an update with everyone. 

First, let's start by saying the Oracle Forms product is healthy, happy, and under active development in preparation for the next release.  We have many new features and enhancements planned for the next release, so stay tuned.

Second, as of Monday, June 24th Oracle Forms added its first JDeveloper extension (Forms PJC Wizard 1.0) to the JDev Update Center.  Although this extension has been around for some time, it has finally been added to the Update Center, making installation and updating simple. 
For anyone not familiar with this extension, it is intended to provide a basic template for Oracle Forms developers wanting to add Pluggable Java Components to their Forms applications.  Adding PJCs to a Forms application is a great way to enhance the look-and-feel (and functionality) of any application.

For more information about Oracle Forms, visit our Techlistings page on OTN:

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/forms

We are running two small scale workshops dedicated to teaching the basics of Oracle ADF Mobile to developers this week.

We still have a few places in each of the locations - so if you are based in California and interested see below:

El Segundo - Wednesday, April 17, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
200 N. Sepulveda Blvd., Suite 400
El Segundo, CA 90245

Irvine - Thursday, April 18, 2013
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
17901 Von Karman Avenue, Suite 800
Irvine, CA 92614

 to sign up send an email to - mustafa.rahimi at oracle.com

Oracle is pleased to announce the call for nominations for the 2013 Oracle Excellence Awards for Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation. Are you using Oracle Fusion Middleware to deliver unique business value? If so, submit a nomination today for the Oracle Excellence Awards for Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation. These awards honor customers for their cutting-edge solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Winners are selected based on the uniqueness of their business case, business benefits, level of impact relative to the size of the organization, complexity and magnitude of implementation, and the originality of architecture. Winners receive a free pass to Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco (September 22-September 26) and will be honored during a special event at OpenWorld.

This year, the awards will recognize customers across eight distinct categories:

• Oracle Exalogic Elastic Cloud
• Oracle Cloud Application Foundation
• Oracle Service-Oriented Architecture & Business Process Management
• Oracle WebCenter
• Oracle Identity Management
• Oracle Data Integration
• Oracle Application Development Framework and Fusion Development
• Business Analytics (Oracle BI, Oracle EPM, Oracle Exalytics)

If you consider yourself a pioneer, using these solutions in innovative ways to achieve significant business value, submit your nomination for the 2013 Oracle Excellence Awards for Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation by Tuesday, June 18th, 2013 at 5pm Pacifict Time, for a chance to win a FREE registration to Oracle OpenWorld 2013 in San Francisco, California. The awards will be presented during Oracle OpenWorld 2013 to the winners where they'll receive a Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Trophy, get a chance to mingle with Oracle executives, network with their peers and be featured in Oracle Magazine and/or Profit Magazine, and more.

To be considered for this award, complete the Oracle Fusion Middleware Innovation Awards nomination form and send to Innovation-Middleware_us@oracle.com.

We are happy to announce the availability of Oracle JDeveloper and Oracle ADF 11.1.1.7.0.

This version is aligned with the rest of the component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11.1.1.7.0.

The version has several bug fixes, but also contains some new features that you can leverage. Those include:

New simpler look and feel for ADF Faces - Skyros

New data visualization components - Treemap, Sunburst and Timeline

New ADF Faces component - List View, Code Editor and the PanelGridLayout

Enhancements to various ADF Faces components includingL table component now supports pagination (scrollpolicy), file upload support multi-file upload, Calendar component enhancments

Many new features in the ADF Desktop Integration functionality

There are more enhancements and new features that you can read about here.

You can download the new 11.1.1.7.0 version from OTN and you can get the SOA, WebCenter and BI extensions for it from the help->check for updates.

Let us know what you think.

If you are attending Collaborate 13 - the biggest Oracle User Groups conference in North America - you'll get a chance to see a lot of ADF content this year.

Here is a partial list of the ADF related sessions you might want to attend:

Sun. Apr. 7 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm	11993	A Developers Journey From Oracle EBS Forms to Oracle EBS ADF Pages. -
Mon. Apr. 8 9:45 am - 10:45 am	137	Oracle ADF - What it is and why it is important to you
Mon. Apr. 8 11:00 am - 12:00 pm	11449	How Oracle ADF powers Herbalife’s touch screen order entry system
Mon. Apr. 8 11:00 am - 12:00 pm	694	Don't let data push you around! An introduction to ADF active data.
Mon. Apr. 8 11:00 am - 12:00 pm	718	Getting Started with ADF
Mon. Apr. 8 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm	708	Is that your Portal?! A story of a better look and feel - WebCenter Portal Skinning
Mon. Apr. 8 1:15 pm - 2:15 pm	12408	Experience of Rapid ADF Technology Adoption:an Oracle Partner’s Success story for Cloud-Enabled Apps
Mon. Apr. 8 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	175	Develop, Integrate,and Use: Oracle ADF with Oracle E-Business Suite the SOA way
Mon. Apr. 8 2:30 pm - 3:30 pm	704	Building Hybrid Oracle Forms and ADF Application
Mon. Apr. 8 3:45 pm - 4:45 pm	304	Oracle ADF for OAF Developers
Tue. Apr. 9 8:00 am - 9:00 am	141	Developing On-device Mobile Applications with Oracle ADF Mobile
Tue. Apr. 9 10:45 am - 11:45 am	292	Oracle ADF & JDeveloper for Forms Developers
Tue. Apr. 9 12:00 pm - 12:30 pm	286	Talking Services Oracle ADF and Oracle SOA Suite
Tue. Apr. 9 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm	690	Optimize business processes by extending E-Business Suite to Business Process Management
Wed. Apr. 10 9:30 am - 10:30 am	513	WebCenter Portal ADF Designing for Desktop, Mobile & Tablet - Responsive And Adaptive Design Integration
Wed. Apr. 10 11:00 am - 12:00 pm	350	Integrating ADF Mobile with WebCenter (Portal and Content)
Wed. Apr. 10 12:15 pm - 12:45 pm	788	Moving Forward with Oracle Forms: What Now? What's Next?
Wed. Apr. 10 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	11451	Highly available online order entry framework using ADF: Herbalife approach to business success
Wed. Apr. 10 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm	11980	Using Application Development framework(ADF) user experience on existing Oracle e-business suite.

In addition you can find us at the Oracle section of the demoground where we'll be showing and talking about both ADF Mobile and the regular Oracle ADF.

A special event for Forms customers that you might also want to attend is taking place on Tue evening. Check out the details here.

See you at Denver.

As some of you noticed it, early this year Connotea.org announced that it was shutting down its service on March 12 2013. For more than 5 years we used this aggregation service to collect more than 4000 technical references to ADF-related content accross the web, generating thousands of Tweets and Facebook posts referencing the content that you, the ADF community have contributed non-stop all along. Establishing a single knowledge-base repository of all ADF content around the Web. Here some of the reactions on the twittersphere:

Fortunately we kept regular backups and Connotea allowed us to export all of the content too. Today we are happy to announce that your contributions are safely backed up and stored into a new home - Pinboard.in. We took the opportunity to do some cleaning up in the house, as various links have changed over the years (starting for OTN) or

To use RSS to track the reporitory please change the link from http://www.connotea.org/rss/user/jdeveloper to http://feeds.pinboard.in/rss/u:OracleADF/

Also let us know if you noticed broken links so we can correct them and many many thanks to all you who have contributed to building this knowledge base, without your contributions this project had never existed.

The ADF Product Team!

There are some great opportunities for you to get up to speed on the latest in the world of Oracle ADF next week in Denver Colorado.

On Monday, we are running a half day workshop about ADF Mobile including a hands-on lab - registration is free. For details scroll to the end of this page.

On Tuesday and Wednesday as part of the RMOUG Training Days conference there are several ADF focused sessions:

Oracle ADF - The No Slides Overview

Develop Compelling On-Device Mobile Apps - The Simple Way

How to Migrate an Oracle Forms Application to Oracle ADF

Complimentary Upgrade to First-Class: ADF Development Team Essentials

Oracle ADF Task Flow Beyond the 10-Minute Demo

Deep Dive into Oracle ADF: Advanced Techniques

Web Development Techniques from an Oracle Fusion Application Developer

The Arrangement of the Screens: Introduction to Layout with Oracle ADF Faces

Beyond the content and the learning opportunity, there are also some great networking opportunities - with such local user groups you get a chance to meet other developers in your area who work on similar technologies - which can be a great way to further extend your knowledge.

 Hope to see you there next week.