Today I had busy schedule as well … so let’s start talking wright ;o)
The first session I attended was the keynote-speech of Thomas Kurian:
The acquisition of Coherence has been a huge step forward in datagrid enabling the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack.
Coherence could be defined as ‘in parallell processing of transactions which live in-memory and are spread over differnet datagrid engines.
Which benefits can we gain from it:
– 30% more benefit
– less power needed
– less feeds needed
– half as many servers needed
and more over, Coherence still offers absolute reliability and consistent availability.
– Application Server is JEE 5 Compatible which supports WS-* (quality of service), JAX-* and EJB 3.0
What about the OFM offering:
– IDE that integrates all the different technologies of SOA together, such as esb and bpel design, web application design using ADF or Webcenter. By using customizable skins Oracle offers the possibility to use the same application as a JSF application or rich client interface using AJAX, DHTML.
In 11g we will be able to design SOA Composites inside JDeveloper which will hold the entire SOA-technology stack, such as BAM, BPEL, ESB and will give the user the ability to drill down into the specific service he/she’s interested in.
Bpel has been extended :
– System-oriented processes: such as the prepackaged processes for integrating with Siebel, SAP, ERP-systems, …
– Human processes
– Document-centric processes (excel sheets, word documents, …) will all be transformed to service-enabled messaging formats such as pdf, xml, …
Complex Event Processing (CEP) & Activity Monitoring has been added as well to add the ability to collect events in memory and perform analytics on these events use CQL, the Complex Event Processing query language.
Enterprise Manager is now a fully featured management applications that will hold all needed functionality to control services and OWSM has been integrated as well. You will have one single point of thruth to manage your entire SOA enabled application.
Throughout a ‘Best Bank’-demo Thomas has shown us the different customer needs and business value throughout the Oracle offering.
The technology-stack that was used throughout the demo:
– JDeveloper
– SCA Composite Editor which is an add-on in JDeveloper 11g
– ADF Developer and ADF Task Forms
– BAM Datacontrols
– Shared repository to give the user the ability to change the web application on any given time he wants.
– All office applications are now supported as well (Excel spreadsheet is build into web application)
The Web 2.0 or Enterprise 2.0 Experience:
– Universal Content Management
– Conversion and filtering of content using tags and categories
– Render files to web-enable the application (word, Excel, … to PDF, XML)
– Open Web Content Management system giving the end-user and developers the possibility to use any UI technology they want such as PHP, JSP, JSF, Ruby on Rails, …
– Archiving and Record Management
– Webcenter (dashboard to integrate adf, portal, discussion forums, forms, third-legacy applications, …)
– Webcenter spaces to share information and create an online community
– Composer: give the user the ability to adjust the application at run-time by dragging and dropping compoentns from the Composer.
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