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Jouw toekomst als Oracle professional – AMIS !!EXTRA!! informatieavond over jouw ontwikkelingspad
Jan 24th
Als je dit leest en je bent Oracle professional – ontwikkelaar of administrator – is de kans groot dat je jouw carriere bent gestart in de jaren ‘90, in het tijdperk van Oracle7, Oracle Forms en Client/Server applicaties – net voor de opkomst van Java, internet, mobiel en SOA. Misschien ligt je start daar nog wel voor en misschien ben je van een tikje later. Maar in elk geval: je hebt een solide fundament en al vele jaren ervaring in Oracle technologie.
Nu is het 2012. En de afgelopen jaren is de technologie in hoog tempo ontwikkeld. Web 2.0 applicaties en multi-tier architecturen dienden zich aan en SOA, Service Bus en BPM zijn opgekomen. Java is overal – en HTML 5 staat op het punt om Flash en Silverlight te verdringen, in desktop browsers en in mobiele devices. Eindgebruikers worden mondiger en veel-eisender en real-time, push-enabled, BI-gedreven dashboards en multi-channel takenlijsten worden in snel itererende agile-projecten gerealiseerd.
Oracle 11g Database doet alle simpele DBA taken zelf – en de uitdaging voor de Database Administrator is verschoven naar groter en interessanter, zeker als 24/7 beschikbaarheid, virtualisatie en de cloud als infrastructuur opduiken. Middleware administratie en integrale security zijn zomaar twee nieuwe uitdagingen op de weg van de administrator, naast een verdergaande consolidatie en professionalisering van deployment en monitoring.
De uitdaging voor de Oracle professional lijkt duidelijk: hoe kies je je weg naar de toekomst? Om interessante klussen te blijven (gaan?) doen is het nodig om aansluiting te vinden bij de ontwikkelingen in de markt. Eerst moet je natuurlijk goed inzicht hebben in wat die ontwikkelingen zijn – in de markt in het algemeen en binnen de Oracle technology stack in het bijzonder. Dan moet je uitvinden hoe je vanuit je huidige kennis en ervaring de aansluiting vindt en jezelf prepareert voor het werken met de huidige en komende technologie. En tenslotte moet je het gaan doen – kennis vergaren, ervaring opdoen en je profileren om de passende klussen op te kunnen pakken.
AMIS Mobile SIG – rain sensors pouring data into the mobile network
Jul 5th
Last night, the AMIS Mobile Special Interest Group convened. This session had as objective to explore the many different mobile agents and devices that we encounter, the types of signals, information and functions that are relevant with these various agents and the impact their inclusion in the mobile sphere of our customers has on the enterprise applications and architecture.
Our guest speaker – Rolf Hut of the Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geosciences – did an excellent job of introducing a new class of mobile agents with his presentation on hydro-meteorological stations. He even had us all build rain-sensors, from easily accessible and very cheap materials. 10 minutes of super-glueing, soldering and kindergarten-level handcrafting was all it took for 6 teams to create a sensor that could be connected to a laptop to register simple signals.
From this very practical example, it was not hard to envisage a wide network with hundreds or thousands of devices that report findings – to be processed by the backend infrastructure.
See Rolf presenting on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh7GDD3Ssr8&feature=player_embedded#at=44.
Android puts Oracle on the (Google) map.
Mar 24th
For a couple of months I have been discovering the Android platform. As an original Oracle developer I was wondering how an Android app can be connected to an Oracle database.
For this purpose I developed an Android app that stores speed traps that users may hit while driving, into an Oracle database. The app also retrieves these speed traps from the database and draws them onto a Google map:
Fig. 1 After pressing the Android device’s menu button, two menu options ‘Retrieve’ and ‘Report’ (speed traps) appear.
Fig. 2 After pressing the ‘Retrieve’ option all speed traps already stored in the database appear as markers on the map.
Oracle Develop Keynote – Ted Farrell Showing Off ADF in a big big way!
Sep 22nd
A few moments ago, Ted Farrell completed his demonstration of ADF 11g – the premier framework for developing rich, multi-channel applications. In 30 minutes he ran the audience through an impressive range of features and functions that his team has developed in ADF 11g, both for the Oracle Fusion Applications development groups to make use of but also fully available to any customer around the world. He focused today on rich data visualization and multi-channel support.
This article provides a quick overview of the demo scenario and provides some screenshots to go with it.
Technical Preview of ADF Mobile Client has arrived !
Apr 30th
The Technical Preview of ADF Mobile Client now is generally available!
Ted Farrell, Chief Architect and Sr. Vice President of Tools and Middleware introduced the latest break-through in mobile application development at the BlackBerry User Conference (WES). ADF Mobile extends Oracle Application Development Framework to mobile users. Using Oracle JDeveloper, application developers can rapidly develop mobile applications that support mobile users accessing critical business data through either on-device mobile client or mobile. ADF Mobile Client supports a complete on-device client framework that works and performs consistently regardless of connectivity. The framework enables developers to develop one application that can be deployed to multiple mobile device platforms.
I wrote the OTN article to support the introduction of ADF Mobile Client: “Developing for BlackBerry Smartphones using Oracle JDeveloper and ADF Mobile”. According to Joe Huang (Senior Principal Product Manager Mobile Platform, ADF/JDeveloper) this article will contribute to getting ADF Mobile Client out to the market.
Click to go to the ADF Mobile Homepage, where you find all the resources.
Have fun working with ADF Mobile Client.
