Bryxx has launched!

On Tuesday, May 7 the Bryxx launch event took place. In the beautiful setting of the Flandria boat, and in the presence of a large number of customers, we revealed the services of this new venture. As a joint venture between the iAdvise and Contribute infrastructure teams, Bryxx will specifically focus on the middleware field.

In bringing together both expert middleware teams, we will focus on

• Opening up your business critical web applications to your intranet or to the internet
• Making sure that these applications, deployed on your middleware stack, are secure on all layers of the underlying architecture. Security from-data-to-browser
• Streamlining and automating your process of development towards production
• Providing you with the opportunities to outsource the maintenance of your private middleware cloud or to outsource your entire private middleware cloud

From a technical point of view Bryxx will dedicate its expertise to 4 domains:

• Oracle Cloud Application Foundation (with web logic as the main driver)
• Oracle Identity & Access management
• Oracle Database Security
• DevOps

With respect to these 4 areas of expertise, Bryxx provides strong consultancy profiles on all levels (pre-sales, infrastructure architects, senior implementation engineers, etc) to design, install, configure, maintain and monitor your middleware platform as well as to streamline the process of application development towards your preferred middleware solution.

When you add our managed services and hosted solutions offering on each of these domains to this package, with strong partnerships in the backend, we believe Bryxx has a strong and complete offering for all your middleware challenges !Our team of 14 dedicated and experienced middleware engineers is ready for you.

Want to know more?

Visit us at www.bryxx.eu or contact us at info@bryxx.eu

 

Slides of the ODTUG Webinar: “Oracle ADF Immersion: How an Oracle Forms Developer Immersed Himself in the Oracle ADF World”

A few weeks ago we did an ODTUG Webinar: “Oracle ADF Immersion: How an Oracle Forms Developer Immersed Himself in the Oracle ADF World”.

About 186 followed the seminar online.
Those people received a link to the recorded session and the slides of the presentation.

For those who couldn’t attend, these are the slides of the presentation: ADF Immersion presentation
But the presentation was a lot more than a few slides, there was also a demo(>30 minutes).
So if you want to see the full recording, you can see all past webinars as a full ODTUG member.

If you need more info on ADF methodologies and ADF best practices or want to ask questions about these topics, check out the ADF EMG group.

Why should you attend Oracle OpenXperience on 25 October in Brussels?

Because it’s there that you’ll find out how your organisation can benefit from Oracle’s new technologies!

Are mobility and the cloud opportunities for your organization or threats to its security?

Can applications, hardware and software really work together?

Is Oracle 12c a sensible investment?

Is drowning in (big) data unavoidable?

How can business intelligence become an integral part of IT structure?

If at least one of these questions rings a bell, you should attend Oracle OpenXperience. It’s where 10 of Oracle’s most valued partners will present their (local) views on today’s IT challenges and Oracle’s solutions for tackling them. It’s where you’ll discover the practical approach of our partners, in 12 sessions divided into 3 distinct tracks.

For the bigger picture, don’t miss the keynote sessions. Mario Derba, Regional Vice President Systems Sales, South Europe, will share his insight on Oracle’s worldwide strategy. After lunch, famous Belgian innovator, consultant and strategic influencer Jo Caudron will talk about current trends and how they affect IT and your business.

Where?
The Event Lounge
Generaal Wahislaan/Boulevard Général Wahis 16/F
1030 Brussels

When?
Thursday 25 October 2012
10.00-18.00

Register here

Oracle Open World 2012 and ADF EMG

Indeed, it’s almost “that” time of the year again, the week that San Francisco will turn red and is full of Oracle people.
There so much to do, but I still have to build my agenda.

But there are already some things to schedule…
One day, one Moscone room, one main topic…ADF EMG Sunday.
A whole day of interesting presentations on ADF, kicking off with our own:

UGF3783 - Oracle ADF Immersion: How an Oracle Forms Developer Immersed Himself in the Oracle ADF World - 9am-10am Moscone South room 305

As I wrote in a previous blog post, we created an ADF course to introduce ADF to Forms/non-Java developers.
So if you’re a Forms developer or you don’t have any java experience and want to get introduced to ADF, this will be the right session to start.

You’ll find a nice overview on Chris Muir’s blog of the other ADF EMG sessions that day.

This one will be very interesting:
UGF10464 - Oracle Fusion Middleware Live Application Development Demo - 12:45-3:45pm Moscone South room 305

A three hour live demo by Lucas Jellema, Lonneke Dikmans and Duncan Mills.
Check this out!!!

Oracle ADF Immersion

When taking a look at the tools Oracle used to develop its own products, we see that the E-business suite is build in Forms and Reports. Later, new modules were developed according Java EE standards.  Those new modules/applications were released on the same application servers that ran Forms and reports,  where they shared services and infrastructure.

Nowadays Oracle Fusion Applications is the new standard for business.
Oracle Fusion Applications is based on the Java platform, SOA and web 2.0 and is built with the Oracle Application Development Framework.
Not only Fusion Applications, but also My Oracle Support and Oracle Enterprise Manager are built with ADF.

Like Forms did in the past(and still does!), Oracle JDeveloper  offers a visual and declarative development environment for ADF.

And while Oracle uses it’s own framework to build it’s own Applications, probably a lot of companies will use the same tools to build their own Enterprise applications.

Forms and Reports developers are using Forms for years  and are very experienced in building Enterprise applications, but usual don’t have Java Experience or are even scared of Java(I know I was years ago when I read about concepts like “Polymorphism”).
iAdvise still has Forms developers and to let them experience ADF, we created the “ADF Immersion course”.
In this two day hands-on course we “immerse” them in  JDeveloper and ADF.
First day was all about ADF Business Components(entity objects and associations, view objects, Application Module, validation rules,…).
The second was about creating a User Interface: ADF Faces, ADF Model(bindings), application flow, data visualization.

A lot for a two day course, but it wasn’t meant to be as a real course. We tried to show that JDeveloper and ADF aren’t something to be scared of.  And that somebody with experience in building applications can easely start with ADF.
I think it worked out very well!  At the first try out we choosed a mixed audience of Forms developers and java developers and the best feedback we got was from a Forms developer who moved to Java years ago: “After this course every forms developer should be able to work with ADF”.
This is what we aimed for!
After the “real” courses we got the same feedback!
Mission accomplished

Oracle Forms… the saga continues.

Last week Oracle announced the “Oracle Application Development Tools Statement of Direction“.

Oracle stays commited to the Oracle Forms customers, saying Forms will be part of Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c.
That’s right!  There will be a Forms 12c version.
And even Reports will be part of it.

My previous blogpost “Oracle Forms: upgrade…modernize…integrate” shows that you can go on with Forms and now for sure with a new version and support coming up.

On 29 March, ODTUG(Oracle Development Tools User Group) are running a webinar for Forms Developers.  One of the speakers is Grant Ronald who will give a overview on the future plans for Oracle Forms.
The other speaker is Mia Urman of OraPlayer.

You can register here for the webinar.

 

Oracle Forms 11gR2 released

In a previous post I wrote that Grant Ronald announced the release of Oracle Forms 11gR2 in our Oracle Open World presentation.  He didn’t announce an exact date, but it would be very soon.

Well, here it is!

The new version can be downloaded from Oracle Technology Network.
The installation footprint is reduced, it can be integrated in Oracle Access Manager and some other new features.

 

 

* Update

Client support:

• Browser support is no longer based on Operating Systems but strictly tied to the browser themselves, no matter which Operating Systems they are installed on.
• Oracle Forms is supported on both 32 bit browsers with 32 bit Oracle JRE & 64 bit browsers with 64 bit Oracle JRE combinations.

System support:

• Oracle Weblogic Server: WLS 10.3.5
• Databases: Oracle 10.2.0.4+, Oracle 11.1.0.7+, Oracle 11.2.0.1+
• 32 bit and 64 bit systems

More about certifications.

All Things Oracle article: “What’s your choice for Oracle Forms?”

Last week on Oracle Open World we(iAdvise together with Grant Ronald) did a presentation on Oracle Forms Modernization.
We presented the possible options for an Oracle Forms application: modernize, upgrade, integrate or migrate.

In case you couldn’t attend the session or just want to know more about those options, you can read the following article on All Things Oracle: “What’s Your Choice for Oracle Forms?”