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WebLogic 12c released!
Dec 2nd
At December the 1st, 2011, Oracle announced it’s new major release, the 12c release. As Oracle added the i (internet) at its 8 release, the g(gridcomputing) at its 10 release, now the focus will be on the c(cloudcomputing).
Many new features come out of the fact that Oracle has made its key application server ready for the cloud, that is, ready for to run on enigineered systems, in fact its own Exalogic machine, Oracle’s solution for implementing the cloud.
So let’s take a look what this new release brings us, in this blogpost. There are several new features available in the 12c
New or enhanced WebLogic 12c features
- JAVA EE 6 support all kinds of JEE6 specifications are implemented like :
- JSF 2.0,Java Servlets 3.0 JPA 2.0 and EJB 3.1.
- Managed Beans 1.0
- WebLogic 12c also supports supports Java SE 7 (and Java SE 6).
- Java language optimizations and Internationalization
- Client and server support
- SSL/TLS 1.2 in JSSE to support JAVA Socket Transport security
- Converged Java VM:JRockit and HotSpot are incorporated with the best features from both.The JVM convergence will be a multi-year process, which was confirmed during my presence at Oracle’s Publisher Seminar 2011 during OOW
I won’t discuss the full list in this blog because there’s more about WebLogic than only (although very important of course!) the JAVA EE 6 specifications.
- Support for IDE’s. WebLogic already supported JDeveloper 11.1.1.5, but will come out with the 11.1.1.6 later on. Also suported are Eclipse and NetBeans 7.1 IDE. As said, the JDeveloper 11.1.1.6 and IntelliJIdea IDE will be supported in a later timeframe.
- New enhanced WebLogic Maven Plug-in See the various new options below in this scheme
Upcoming Seminar: DBA & SOA/BPM with latest OOW updates (8/11/2011)
Nov 3rd
After the first successful DBA and SOA / BPM day OGH organizes this year a combined DBA – SOA / BPM day on Tuesday 8th of November 2011.
The organization(with board member Jaime Conejo from AMIS) has chosen the theme of this edition to be ‘Manageabillity’, plus the latest information available from the Oracle OpenWorld.
The subjects in the DBA track will be addressed include the latest version of Enterprise Manager, Identity Management, Security and the SQL Tuning Advisor.
The topics in the SOA / BPM track will be addressed including the BI appliance, migration and upgrade forms, Webcenter and BPMN
And ofcourse AMIS will be there giving the latest updates and exciting presentation(s). We will focussing on Oracle Fusion Middleware and with all the upcoming presentations on mainly technical subjects this is a must see for ICT-managers and developers!
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AMIS @ Heliview BPM Event 26 October 2011
Oct 17th
Many organizations are working to ensure consistency between internal processes to optimize efficiency and effectiveness smoothly. For many, the benefits of BPM are well known, but few know how to begin now.
On October 26, 2011 AMIS Services will give a business presentation about BPM at the conference organized by BPM Heliview in Figi in Zeist.
This year the event is particularly interesting. Because besides the phenomenon BPM there is a lot of attention for both the business approach as for the technology.
AMIS will show how BPM works! Gain direct insight into current processes, modifying existing processes without IT! We give the business back back control over their own processes by leveraging Oracle’s BPM Suite 11g.
Are you curious about the (infinite) possibilities?
You can visite us on site at our stand were we are happy to explain the possibilities.
Look for more information on http://www.amis.nl/evenementen/630-bezoek-amis-op-heliview-bpm-event-26-oktober-figi-zeist
2 dagen seminar door Steven Feuerstein: Best of Oracle PL/SQL (8 en 9 december)
Oct 13th
Steven Feuerstein
In dit tweedaagse seminar neemt Steven Feuerstein je mee ver voorbij de basismogelijkheden van PL/SQL. Steven zal tijdens dit seminar de best practices behandelen die hij op tientallen plekken in de wereld heeft verzameld en die hij ook mede door zijn nauwe samenwerking met het PL/SQL product team van Oracle kan verifiëren en aanscherpen. Hij laat via code-voorbeelden en interactieve sessies zien hoe je als ontwikkelaar in staat bent om snel, hoogwaardige, goed onderhoudbare en uitbreidbare applicaties kunt maken.
Er is tijdens dit seminar voldoende ruimte om vragen te stellen en ideeën met Steven Feurestein uit te wisselen.
Bij dit seminar zijn de volgende zaken inbegrepen:
- Een exemplaar van het boek Oracle PL/SQL Programming (5th edition) van Steven Feuerstein (twv €71,-).
- Een PL/SQL quiz onder leiding van Steven Feuerstein met leuke prijzen.
- Ook ontvang je een gratis jaarabonnement op het PL/SQL Channel. Hiermee heb je toegang tot 27 uur videotraining (normaal $395).
Dit is de kans om in Nederland in een select gezelschap met één van de experts op PL/SQL gebied kennis te maken en je expertise in Oracle PL/SQL verder te vergroten. Meer informatie of inschrijven kan via deze link.
(NB: Deelname voor deze twee dagen kost 1050 euro)
Being a San Francisco “local celebrity”
Oct 5th
This week, I went on an invitation of my publisher Packt to Oracle OpenWorld, to be present on the launching of my book, Oracle WebLogic 11gR1 PS2: Administration Essentials.
While busy dropping some tweets, I noticed a tweet mentioning my book; I opened the link and what did I see? An article on the San Francisco Chronicle online version, about the announcement form Packt about the publishing of my book.
So now, I’m waiting for the limo taking me downtown to SF … well, it didn’t show up so I took BART to downtown SF. Bit still a neat thing to see you name in a local paper!
Here’s the article:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/04/prweb8846728.DTL
Oracle Open World / Java One Preview bij AMIS
Sep 8th
Op maandag 19 september zal er bij AMIS een Oracle Open World Preview sessie worden gehouden. Een groot deel van de Nederlanders die het dit jaar gelukt is om aanwezig te zijn als spreker op Oracle Open World zullen hun presentaties geven in Nieuwegein. AMIS-ers Lucas Jellema, Alex Nuijten, Peter Ebell en Aino Andriessen zullen in drie parallel sessies presentaties verzorgen. Daarnaast zullen andere Nederlandse presentatoren – zie hieronder de lijst met sprekers – presentaties verzorgen.
Heb je dit jaar niet de kans om in San Fransisco aanwezig te zijn, meld je dan aan voor deze preview sessie Oracle Open World 2011!
| Zaal 1 | Zaal 2 | Zaal 3 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 17:00 – 18:00 | Lucas Jellema | Aino Andriessen | Alex Nuijten |
| 18:00 – 19:00 | Diner | Diner | Diner |
| 19:00 – 20:00 | Jacco Landlust | Kees Jan Koster | Peter Ebell |
| 20:00 – 21:00 | Lonneke Dikmans | Kees Jan Koster/ Jeroen Borgers |
Lucas Jellema – Instant Agility in Oracle Fusion Middleware Through Design Time @ Runtime
This session will discuss quality aspects of an ADF Fusion application. It will demonstrate how to address, manage and measure quality and will show what tools can be used to leverage the development process to create high quality ADF Fusion applications.
Jacco Landlust – Deployment Patterns for Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g is a comprehensive software suite that can be installed in a wide range of different topologies. In this session, an Oracle ACE Director (Simon Haslam) and an Oracle ACE (Jacco H. Landlust) combine their real-world experience in a range of organizations (including supermarkets, government departments, and banks) to explain the decisions you have to make in designing a middleware infrastructure.The presentation covers Oracle WebLogic Server, supporting infrastructure such as Oracle Internet Directory, and layered products such as Oracle SOA Suite. Topics include domain planning, clustering options, handling virtualization, patching strategy, and promoting software from test to production.
Lonneke Dikmans – Approach to SOA: Making This a Successful Endeavor for the Whole Organization
This session starts by explaining key features of SOA. There are several reasons to start with SOA: it can be a strategic choice, it can be started from an IT perspective, or the endeavor can be started from a specific department or business issue. To make the SOA effort successful, it is important to decide where to start. Selecting the right tooling, training, and projects is an important success factor. This session discusses Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Unified Business Process Management Suite and explains how the suites fit into the roadmap to SOA. At the end of this session, you will know what SOA means, when it is best used, and how you can get there.
Aino Andriessen – Spend some quality time on you ADF Application
A key factor in succesfull (ADF Fusion) application development is good quality management. And although everybody agrees on that, many projects still struggle with the definition of quality let alone with the implementation, measurement and enforcement of a quality process. Hight quality improves the system’s stability and maintainability and allows for better and faster development and is thus beneficial both to the owner as wel as the developer.
Kees Jan Koster – Cache Fundamentals, Dangers, and Tuning
This presentation is a tour of the surprisingly large number of caches in a typical Java application and the systems it is part of. You’ll take home a practical approach to examining the characteristics of a cache and will be able to compare caching solutions.
Kees Jan Koster en Jeroen Borgers - Java Tuning Puzzlers
This session looks at some strange and bizarre exceptions, error messages, and performance measurements. It discusses each of them and tries to resolve them. You are invited to chip in, offer solutions, ask questions, and learn about some of the more obscure corners of Java.
Peter Ebell – Bridging the gap between SOA and the Database
All too often, they are perceived as two different worlds. There’s the realm of the Oracle SOA Suite, where everything revolves around technologies like XML, Web Services and BPEL. And there’s your databases, containing your company’s data and business logic in tables, views and PL/SQL logic. For SOA to be successful, these two worlds must be able to interact closely. This presentation will provide a thorough overview of the many ways in which the SOA Suite can connect to the database (for instance through the Database Adapter, SDO, EDN or Native DBWS), and vice versa: how services and processes in the SOA Suite can be invoked from within the database (using among others AQ, UTL_HTTP and DBMS_EPG). Illustrated by demos, the possibilities of each of these techniques will be made clear. Also, some common solutions and scenarios will be discusses using real life examples.
Alex Nuijten – Who’s afraid of Analytic Functions?
“I never had the need for Analytic Functions”, is one of the phrases that is heard quite often. Maybe that’s true, maybe it isn’t. Recognizing the need for a particular feature can only occur when you have enough exposure to the feature. In this presentation a number of real life examples will be covered which will show the power of Analytic Functions and the ease of solving the challenge at hand. You can learn the syntax from the Oracle Documentation, but you will learn to recognize “the need for them” by real life examples.
Announcement: Business Process Management explained by Oracle (webcasts)
Aug 15th
Oracle starts from this Thursday (18th of August) with a series of webcasts about (Oracle) BPM. As one of the main AMIS focus areas (fusion middleware) I believe this can be a good opportunity to increase the knowledge in this area for business analysts, business developers (BPEL/BPMN), product owners and those who are interested. According to our wishes to become BPM Specialized this is a must see.
- Aug 18 – Mastering BPM: learn about Oracle BPM core competencies and market differentiators.
- Aug 25 – Mastering BPMN 2.0. leverage concepts such as gateways, reusable sub-processes, and exception handling.
- Sep 1 – Ruling with Rules: learn how BPM addresses rule-based routing and run-time modification of business rules by a business analyst.
- Sep 8 – Empowering the Business User: Learn how to enable business users to be proactive in modeling, managing, and optimizing processes.
- Sep 8 – Process Analytics-Intelligent Decision Making: monitor and manage the performance of your BPM processes.
- Sep 15 – BPM APIs: learn how to extend your BPM implementation using BPM APIs.
- Sep 22 – BPM Deployment and High Availability: best practices to consider in configuring and deploying Oracle BPM applications.
For more background information and to subscribe please pay a visit to:
http://blogs.oracle.com/bpm/entry/mastering_bpm_11g_webinar_series
ODTUG KScope Preview 2011
Jun 14th
Ook dit jaar, namelijk op dinsdag 14 Juni, organiseert AMIS de ODTUG Preview. Het jaarlijkse congres van de ODTUG, de Oracle Development Tools Users Group, vind dit jaar plaats in Longbeach, California van 26 tot en met 30 juni. Het is niet voor iedereen weggelegd om daar naar toe te gaan. AMIS biedt, alweer voor het vijfde achtereenvolgende jaar, aan geïnteresseerden de kans om een selectie van de presentaties die daar te zien zijn bij te wonen. Een aantal Europese sprekers zal tijdens de AMIS ODTUG preview presentatie laten zien die ook in de Verenigde Staten worden gehouden.
Tijdens de AMIS ODTUG Preview zullen er drie keer drie parallelle sessies worden gehouden met verschillende onderwerpen zoals APEX, database development, ADF, JHeadstart en SOA.
Programma:
| Tijd | Track 1 | Track 2 | Track 3 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16:30 | Welkom en Registratie | ||
| 17:00 | XFILES, the APEX 4 Version: The Truth is in There…Marco Gralike & Roel Hartman | ADF Developers – Make the Database Work for YouLucas Jellema | Pipelined Table FunctionsPatrick Barel |
| 18:00 | Dinner | ||
| 19:00 | APEX Face/Off – Designing a GUI with APEX Templates and ThemesChristian Rokitta | BPMN: The New Silver Bullet?Lonneke Dikmans | Building Highly Reusable ADF TaskflowsSteven Davelaar |
| 20:15 | Who’s Afraid of Analytic Functions?Alex Nuijten | Overview of Eventing in Oracle SOA Suite 11gRonald van Luttikhuizen | …and Thus Your Forms ‘Automagically’ DisappearedLuc Bors |
Dit evenement is met name bedoeld voor ontwikkelaars.
Uiteraard zijn er aan dit event geen kosten verbonden, maar het aantal plaatsen voor dit evenement is beperkt, wacht niet te lang. Vol is vol.
Inschrijven via www.amis.nl
Details over de presentaties
Hieronder volgen de abstracts van [enkele van] de presentaties:
Building Highly Reusable ADF Taskflows – Steven Davelaar
If well-designed, ADF Task Flows are self-contained reusable UI services, with a clearly defined contract. In this presentation. Steven will explain step-by-step how you can create highly reusable and configurable ADF Task flows.He will explain and demonstrate how to build one taskflow that is used for data entry, for lookup in a popup window, for deeplinking from other taskflows or external sources like e-mail, as a master taskflow as well as a detail taskflow. After this session you will understand how you can dramatically increase the level of reuse in your application, and you will have learned a number of advanced ADF techniques.
Pipelined Table Functions – Patrick Barel
“If you can do it in SQL, use SQL.” But sometimes even the very powerful version of SQL that Oracle provides is not enough and you need more, like loops, conditions, etc. If you can make the output of a function like it’s a table, then you can use it in SQL and have access to all the power PL/SQL provides. After this session, you will know how to create functions that can be used as tables in SQL.
Who’s Afraid of Analytic Functions? – Alex Nuijten
Recognizing when Analytic Functions can be useful in your daily work is a lot harder than learning the syntax. In this presentation, real life examples are discussed to unleash the power of Analytic Functions.
APEX Face/Off – Designing a GUI with APEX Templates and Themes – Christian Rokitta
This presentation is a practical guide to the concept of APEX themes and templates. It outlines skills, tooling, and steps necessary to create a professional looking, custom APEX GUI.
XFILES, the APEX 4 Version: The Truth is in There… – Roel Hartman & Marco Gralike
Version control is not built into APEX. This session will show how to use power of the underlying XML Database to build a version control system for APEX … built in APEX itself!
BPMN: The New Silver Bullet? - Lonneke Dikmans
Given Oracle BPM Suite is now integrated into SOA Suite via SCA, does this mean BPMN is the new silver bullet in modeling and executing processes? Should developers really be switching from BPEL to BPMN? This session will take delegates through BMPN 2.0 in detail, showing how to model and execute BPMN in Oracle BPM Suite. It will also explain if and when processes should be modeled in Oracle BPA Suite. In addition, the session will discuss guidelines on when to use BPMN vs. BPEL. Finally, some pointers are given regarding the granularity of the business process: some of process logic can be defined in ADF task flows, others are better left in the process flow. The session illustrates the different concepts with demos from the Oracle BPA Suite and Oracle BPM Suite.
Overview of Eventing in Oracle SOA Suite 11g – Ronald van Luttikhuizen
Services and events are highly complementary instead of competing paradigms in the ICT landscape. Oracle SOA Suite 11g emphasizes the importance of events by introducing the Event Delivery Network (or EDN) into the SCA infrastructure. This session provides an introduction of eventing in SOA Suite 11g. It will start by explaining the basics of events [also with respect to services], introduce several messaging patterns such as fire-and-forget and publish/subscribe, and explain some real life examples of using events in an SOA landscape. It will then dive into the underlying eventing infrastructure of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g and Oracle SOA Suite 11g that is based on JMS and AQ, and demo their use both inside and outside SCA composites using resource adapters, PL/SQL, and Java. The session will finish with the introduction of Oracle SOA Suite 11g’s EDN and the use of (composite) sensors in SCA composites.
ADF Developers – Make the Database Work for You – Lucas Jellema
Most ADF applications interact with an (Oracle) RDBMS. It has been proven many times over that it really pays off to strike a good balance between ADF and Database – exploring which tool is best suited for which job and how the two can optimally leverage each other. This session discusses the various points of interaction between database and ADF and when to use which – for example Cursors, Types and Collections, XML as well as interaction via HTTP. The session will focus on ADF BC but will mention JPA and plain JDBC as well. It also highlights some special database features – hierarchical query, flashback, result cache, View with Instead Of Trigger, Analytical Functions – that ADF applications can leverage or should employ – security, database tracing, cache refresh through DB Query ResultSet Change Notification, constraints, and exception handling. Attendees learn what the database can do for their ADF application. They will be able to make better design decisions about how to implement functionality, which tier(s) to use, and how they can best work together.
…and Thus Your Forms ‘Automagically’ Disappeared – Luc Bors
This session is A Forms Modernization Story Featuring JHeadstart Forms2ADF. It talks about considerations to make when you are about to decide whether or not to leave Forms and go for ADF. You will see the process of conversion step by step starting with the business case and ending at the new ADF application. You will hear about issues you run into when using Forms2ADF for automated conversion and you will get hints on how to use Forms2ADF.
Getting started with … your career (in Dutch)
Apr 21st
Als bezoeker van deze blog ben je bezig met het maken van mooie oplossingen en nieuwe uitdagingen op technisch gebied. AMIS nodigt je uit om ons team te komen versterken. AMIS wil je op het gebied van Oracle en Java uitdagen de volgende stap in je carrière nemen.
AMIS merkt al enige maanden dat de markt voor Oracle en Java opdrachten aan het aantrekken is en maakt dat concreet met het uitvoeren van innovatieve opdrachten.
Om je een beeld te geven van het werk bij AMIS volgt hieronder een lijst met de trajecten waar we de afgelopen maanden aan gewerkt hebben.
- OSB / SOA Suite implementatie bij een grote informatieverwerkende organisatie.
- Realisatie in ADF 11g van een backend applicatie voor een internetwinkel.
- Realisatie van een SAAS oplossing op basis van Hibernate, Seam en RichFaces.
- Realisatie van een medisch registratiesysteem in ADF.
- Advies op het gebied van het gebruik van ADF 11g in combinatie met JHeadstart voor een energiebedrijf.
- Realisatie van een SOA / BPEL implementatie voor een pensioenfonds.
- Realisatie van een administratiesysteem voor een verzekeraar buiten Nederland (EU) in ADF 11g en JHeadstart.
- Oracle XML DB implementatie voor een grote bank.
- Realisatie van een SOA Suite / BPEL oplossing voor een grote logistieke leverancier.
- Proof of concept ADF 11g bij een groot adviesbureau.
- Oracle APEX / GIS implementatie bij een groot adviesbureau.
- SOA / BPEL traject bij een grote gemeente.
- Oracle WebCenter, ADF 11g, SOA Suite 11g en OSB traject bij een grote wereldwijde dienstverlener.
- Webservice koppeling met ADF en JAX WS voor een grote gemeente.
- Advies en implementatie van een professionele ontwikkelstraat bij een IT-bedrijf
- …..meer
Eva van der Kleij. Neem contact met me op via info@amis.nl of bel 030-6016000 |
We zoeken Oracle, SOA, Java developers die als medewerker van AMIS de vervolgopdrachten gaan uitvoeren. En denk niet direct dat je hiervoor te weinig kennis of ervaring hebt: jouw toekomstige ervaren collega’s doen niets liever dan jou verder helpen. Ons trainingsprogramma voorziet in een grote diversiteit aan opleidingen en tijdens onze interne kennissessies kun je op veel terreinen iets van je collega’s opsteken.
Kom ons eens van wat dichterbij bekijken en maak een afspraak voor een kennismakingsgesprek via Eva van der Kleij op info@amis.nl of bel naar op 030-6016000. Bel ons ook als je meer wilt weten over werken bij AMIS of een van de onderstaande functies. Concreet hebben we de volgende vacatures:
Wellicht sta jij volgende maand met een artikel op deze blog, schrijvend over de nieuwe dingen die je hebt geleerd of toegepast. Tot ziens bij AMIS! |
Schrijf je in voor de ODTUG Sneak Preview op 15 juni 2009!
May 26th
Op maandag 15 juni 2009, een week voordat in Monterey de ODTUG 2009 plaats vindt, heb je de mogelijkheid om alvast te horen wat negen sprekers in de VS gaan presenteren, onder hen twee Oracle Aces en twee Oracle ACE directors.
- Aino Andriessen (AMIS Services) – ADF Development: More tales from the Trenches
- Lonneke Dikmans (Approach Alliance) – Top Ten Tips: Best Practices for Designing Services, Events, and Business Processes
- Olivier Dupont (iAdvise) – APEX at the Belgium airport
- Dimitri Gielis (APEX Evangelists) – Mastering an APEX page
- Roel Hartman (Logica) – How to integrate APEX and Oracle Forms?
- Lucas Jellema (AMIS Services) - Truth and Dare—The Story of How an Oracle Classic Stronghold Successfully Embraced SOA
- Toon Koppelaars (Rulegen) – Fat databases: A layered approach
- Ronald van Luttikhuizen (Approach Alliance) – Customer case: Implementing SOA in a database-centric environment
- Alex Nuijten (AMIS Services) – SQL Holmes – The case of the missing performance
In drie rondes kan steeds een keuze worden gemaakt uit drie presentaties over een aantal uiteenlopende onderwerpen, onder andere APEX, ADF, SOA en de database.
Dit jaar staat er zelfs één presentatie geprogrammeerd (van Dimitri Gielis) die exclusief op de ODTUG Sneak Preview bij te wonen is en uiteindelijk niet op de ODTUG te zien zal zijn.
Het is mogelijk om gratis deel te nemen aan deze unieke ODTUG Sneak Preview (aanmeldingsformulier)!!! Maar schrijf je snel in, want vol is vol!!!
De locatie van de Sneak Preview is het AMIS kantoor in Nieuwegein. De toegang tot de ODTUG Sneak Preview, het diner en de verfrissingen zijn gratis. Meer informatie over de presentaties vind je in de activiteitenagenda.
