I got a demo from a vendor that has built a completely metadata-driven network configuration management application using ADF. I mean, this was really metadata driven. They produced their entire UI layout (including tabbed displays, tables, edit forms, and tree displays) including dynamically created binding containers and bindings all at runtime based off of custom runtime metadata that they have defined to described their problem domain data models. They had implemented a custom ADF Data Control to wrapper access to back-end configuration data for various flavors of network hardware that needs configuring in a standard way. Along with our ADF Swing bindings, they were using the JIDE docking framework and widgets to have their application look exactly like Microsoft Outlook 2003. The application looked really slick and the way they'd implemented it meant that adding support to their tool for new network hardware in need of configuration required zero Java code. Impressive.
After my shift on the booth, I attended a meeting with some of our key external customers who were here attending OpenWorld. Always fun to put faces with the names of people you normally interact with over email. One interesting thing I noted was that nearly all of them were developing applications using both web as well as Swing interfaces where appropriate which was great to hear. From that meeting Sue Harper and I caught a cab over to the Oracle blogger's dinner where we got a chance to put more faces with names and have a drink and a nice dinner with some of our fellow colleagues and customers who are exicited enough about what they do every day with Oracle technology that they are willing to tell it to the world on their blogs. The company was great, and the pork chop on a bed of jalapeno peppers and corn was to die for.
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