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UKOUG Conference Report

Dec 8th 2008vesterliApplication Express & Application server & Conferences & Oracle Portal & Oracle UCM & Oracle WebCenter & UKOUG

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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ODTUG podcast, SQL Developer Data Modeling

Nov 22nd 2008vesterliConferences & ODTUG & SQL Developer & UKOUG

Did you know that ODTUG is podcasting? I hear a couple of podcasts on the way to work the other day, and they’re good. I encourage you to sign up at odtug.podhead.net.

The latest episode was an interview with Sue Harper about the upcoming SQL Developer 2.0, which will include data modeling, both at the conceptual (entity) and relational (table) level. It will offer a file-based and a database-based repository, import from Designer and even data flow diagrams. It seems that Oracle is re-building the parts of Designer that 90% of all users were using: The data modeling part.

There’s an early adopter release available for download. You can also find Sue Harper presenting SQL Developer at the UKOUG 2008 Conference  in Birmingham December 1-5. (I’ll be presenting there as well.)

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