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I’ll be speaking at the Oracle User Group Norway Spring Conference, April 14 to 16. This great conference takes place on a cruise ship sailing from Oslo to Kiel and back. My topics will be

• What’s Hot and What’s Not - An Overview of Oracle Development Tools
• Forms to ADF - Live!

They’ve lined up an impressively international speaker list, including Dan Morgan, Debra Lilley and Sue Harper - and me, of course …

See you in Oslo!

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I’m spending the weekend writing abstracts for the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference 2010, which will be held in Washington, D.C. June 27 through July 1.If you have solved an interesting challenge, have a real-life project experience to share or have tried out some of the latest technology, I strongly encourage you to submit an abstract.If your abstract is accepted, you’ll get the honor of speaking at the premier Oracle development conference in the world and you are sure to learn a lot yourself as you prepare your paper and presentation…See you in Washington D.C. in June!

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Leaving the details of the individual sessions aside, the impression from this year’s OpenWorld is that of a shift in Oracle’s perception of themselves.

Oracle used to present itself as a technology company that happened to use its technology to build applications. Now, Oracle is an applications company that happens to build some technology (software and hardware) as needed for its applications.

This was evident from the main keynotes that focused almost exclusively on Oracle applications present and future. There was no mention of any news in either database or middleware - this was relegated to the smaller Oracle Develop sub-conference. Looking at the tag cloud in the official Schedule Builder, you search in vain for any mention of PL/SQL or Application Express - even Fusion Development (ADF) get only a small mention.

For a developer this means:

1. The core products used for Oracle applications (Fusion/ADF/BPEL) will be around for a very long time.
2. The non-core products (ODP.NET, Application Express, etc.) will live only as long as there is a significant community using them.

This does not mean that either ODP.NET or APEX is going away (both have strong communities), but it means that it is up to the developer community to keep Oracle interested in these products.

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It’s time for Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco again - I’ll be speaking on Sunday Oct. 11 at the User Group symposium on “Simple SOA - A Real-Life Case Study”. It’s session S312178 in Moscone West L3 room 3000 at 11:15 a.m.

I will also be participating in the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group sessions, both on Sunday Oct 11 in Moscone West L3 room 3014 at 10:30 a.m. and in the Unconference on Wednesday Oct 14 at 1:00 p.m. If you are interested in Oracle ADF, look up the ADF EMG sessions and join the group.

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One of the three presentations I’ll be giving at the UKOUG Technology & E-Business Suite conference 2009 in Birmingham Nov 30 - Dec 2 is “Forms to ADF - Live!”. For this presentation, I am going to convert an existing Oracle Forms application to an ADF Faces (web) application.

Now, instead of just converting the same old Forms demo application again, I would like to use a couple of real-life Forms. So if you would like to see what your existing Forms application might look like in ADF, please send me an e-mail (sten@vesterli.com).

What I am looking for:

• a couple of Forms of medium complexity
• all necessary support files (PLL etc)
• a database create script (tables, PL/SQL etc)
• an export or a script for creating realistic test data
• a bit of your time answering my questions on the app
• your permission to show your app during my conference presentations

What I’ll give back:

• a running ADF web application with the same functionality
• a JDeveloper Workspace with all the code

There’ll be no cost to you, of course. I look forward to hearing from you!

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I’m at the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference in Monterey, and the level of the presentations here is awesome. With so many great sessions, I don’t really have time to blog a daily update - but you can get a feel for what is happening by setting up a twitter search for #odtug. You can follow me on Twitter at twitter.com/stenvesterli and ODTUG on twitter.com/odtug.

My own presentation “What’s Hot and What’s Not - An Overview of Oracle Development Tools” is tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. 

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I’m off to Monterey for the annual ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference June 21 to 25. 

I’ll be presenting on “Simple SOA - A Real-Life Case Study” during the Web Architecture Symposium Sunday. If you want to twitter about this presentation (or even ask me a question during the session) please use tag #odtug S458. 

My other presentation is the latest overview of the Oracle tool stack: “What’s Hot and What’s Not” on Thursday. Here, I’ll be discussing Oracle Forms, Application Express, ADF and many other tools. The twitter tag for this presentation is #odtug S392 - questions are welcome. If you can’t make it to the conference, the conclusion from this presentation can be found on the Oracle Tools page.

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I’ll be speaking at the Oracle User Group Norway conference March 10-12 in their English-language track. It’s held aboard the M/S Color Magic sailing from Oslo to Kiel and back. There’s more info on the OUGN website.

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The UKOUG conference in Birmingham is over, and I have placed PDF files of my two presentations on the papers page.

I was only there for two days this year, but did pick up a few interesting things:

• Oracle is now promising App Server 11g (including WebCenter) first half of calendar year 2009. On past form, that probably means a July to September timeframe
• Oracle will be moving to a new Access Management solution for App Server 11g. The existing Oracle SSO solution will not  be part of 11g, which means that you will have to keep a 10g infrastructure around if you use Oracle Portal, mod_osso or Oracle Forms with Single Sign-on. Migration path? Nope, you’re on your own.
• It seems Oracle is backing away from an earlier commitment to use JCR-170 content in Portal 11g. If you want to use UCM with Oracle Portal, you’ll have to make do with the standard UCM portlets. Migrating Oracle Portal content to UCM? Once again, you’re on your own.
• Forms 11g: It’s ready on the shelf waiting for the App Server 11g release.
• Application Express: On it’s own release cycle - expect APEX 4.0 in second half of 2009. The WebSheet feature is really cool - you have Edit-in-place of table values without everything having to be in a text entry field, you can create LOVs from existing column values, and an end user can add columns to an existing table from the WebSheet.

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Here is a challenge: Find the place in the latest Oracle product documentation that states the following “To improve response time, verify that the optimizer_mode Oracle initialization parameter is set to choose.”

The first person to tell me in person where Oracle is recommending this, wins a beer. E-mail doesn’t count, because I can’t e-mail the prize

I realize that this gives an unfair advantage to my colleagues and customers in Denmark, but since I’ll be at the UKOUG Conference 2008 in Birmingham this Monday and Tuesday, you can beat the Danes by telling me after one of my presentations. You can find me presenting What’s Hot and What’s Not – an Overview of Oracle Development Tools on Monday at 11:00 and Oracle portal products - should everyone migrate to WebCenter? on Tuesday at 12:10.

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