OOW2008 announcements for OFM administrators
27 Sep 2008 by Simon Haslam (in Events) | Comments (1)
Perhaps not surprisingly following the big excitement around the BEA acquisition this year, as far as I could see there weren't really any significant announcements within the middleware area at OOW 2008 this week.
The most interesting one for me is that ADF 11g (and JDeveloper 11g) is going production (it's not on OTN yet but expect to see it over the coming days). ADF 11 has some very significant improvements including task flows, templates and the new AJAX-style Rich Client front-end, and it's great to hear it's finally going live.
| One thing that was confusing at first glance was the launch of Oracle Beehive.
For anyone who has been following the Oracle's integration strategy for
BEA, Beehive is an ex-BEA product used for building java applications
(now Apache Beehive) and is in the non-strategic end-of-life category. However the new Oracle Beehive is the successor to Oracle Collaboration Suite and provides email, calendars, shared workspaces, web conferencing etc. |  |
Note in particular that, as those who have been closely watching JDeveloper demos over the last few months may have spotted, 11g will be launched with WebLogic 10.3 as the (integrated) JEE container rather than OC4J.
For readers in the UK, I'm actually speaking about Oracle WebLogic 10g R3 and comparing it to OC4J at this week's UKOUG Application Server & Middleware SIG if you're interested.
Posted by Simon Haslam on September 28, 2008 at 03:15 PM BST #