Hello Folks,
I'm back! The last few weeks I've been living in a hole (otherwise known as my office at work) and have been working day and night on several key things in preparation for JavaOne.
First, I was organizing a first ever integrated demo for all of the Oracle demostations at JavaOne. This had me working with all of the different groups at Oracle to get all of our demos to follow a single theme. We ended up choosing a Formula 1 racing theme which actually made for really cool demos.. I architected an initial "core" demo which used Toplink POJOs for the mid-tier along with Oracle ADF for databinding to JSP with JSTL for the Web Tier presentation layer. I then posted the demo app to the other groups within Oracle so they could build complementary demos highlighting their technology area such as UML modelling, J2EE security, failover etc.. What resulted was a really cool set of integrated demos which all flowed together.
One of the coolest things that we did with the integrated theme was to have a single demo across all of the demostation which allowed you to design your own custom Formula1 race team and then send it to a BPEL set of processes which would approve or reject your order. The cool thing was that it was using our new BPEL designer and server which we recently acquired from Collaxa!
To add icing to the cake, our SVP was so pleased with our demo progress he wanted to demo the same Racing Demo which includes our BPEL designer/server on stage at the JavaOne keynote. I created a slightly simplified keynote version and had our demo-boy, Ted Farrell, do the demo onstage with Thomas.. (Just checking to see if Ted reads this.. I'm sure he'll like the term "demo-boy"! :)
Here are links to the Oracle keynote at JavaOne:
Click here for Part 1
Click here for Part 2
Cool Stuff!
The other key work I've been doing is getting JDeveloper JSP 2.0 and JSF support up and running. We are actually making very good progress on both JSP 2.0 and our new integrated JSF support. At JavaOne we showed how you can build JSP 2.0 pages with embedded EL expressions. We have a cool new EL binder tool which makes databinding pages with Expressions extremely easy. In the same demo, we showed how to quickly create a .Tag file with the EL content.
In another demo, we showed our new JSF support where demonstrated how to build JSF applications visually in JDeveloper. This including doing visual development with both the JSF Reference Implementation components (JSF HTML,Core) as well as our "value add" set of JSF components which are based on Oracle's UIX technology. Our demo started off with showing how you can drop typical JSF RI components like a inputText and dataTable onto a page and then customize them visually. We then showed, in the same page, adding some of the Oracle JSF additional components (also known as "ADF Faces") . For example we would drop an ADF Faces table next to a JSF RI dataTable and show the cool things you can do with the ADF Faces table like add column sorting, adding a select option, setting the number of rows visible (paging) etc.. Really cool!
Anyway, I actually attended some sessions at JavaOne as well.. I'll be writing up my feedback shortly..
2:42:56 PM 
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