Why is JHeadstart not at OOW2005?

9 September 2005 at 15:36 CEST | In JHeadstart, OpenWorld 2007, Oracle |

This year, I’m lucky enough to be able to attend Oracle OpenWorld 2005 in San Francisco. As I was using the Schedule Builder to decide which sessions to attend, one of the first things I noticed is that there are no sessions about JHeadstart.

There are no sessions about Designer either. I can understand that, since Oracle has basically ended development on the Designer product.

What I don’t understand is why JHeadstart is not promoted at Oracle OpenWorld. It’s a great tool to increase your J2EE development productivity and it’s a great way for Forms/Designer developers to get to know the J2EE/ADF world. I really don’t understand this decision by Oracle.

I know JHeadstart is developed by Oracle Consulting from the Netherlands, but surely Oracle HQ is not suffering from the NIH syndrome. Steve Muench attended a four day seminar about JHeadstart in January 2005. Ever since, he’s been very enthusiastic about JHeadstart and even wrote a couple of postings on his blog and a very helpful JHeadstart Tutorial on OTN. I was hoping that Steve’s attention for JHeadstart would also make Oracle HQ interested. Apparently this didn’t help enough.

If any of you is worried about productivity when making the switch from Forms development to J2EE development, please have a look at JHeadstart. Even if you’re not making the switch from Forms but are just a J2EE/ADF developer, you should also have a look as it is a real productivity booster.

Let’s hope the JHeadstart team will be at OpenWorld next year.

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  1. I don’t think it is only NIH syndrome, although that always plays a significant part. My gut feeling is that Oracle HQ doesn’t want to back JHS too much, too publicly. They have a hard time already ’selling’ the ADF proposition to a Java/J2EE community. JHS will be even harder.

    IMO it is predominantly the Oracle forms/designer (headstart) community embarking Java/J2EE that are very exited about JHS.

    Comment by Jan — 12 September 2005 #

  2. I agree with Jan 50 percent only because Oracle HQ might play a bigger role for JHS and Java/J2EE is good platform and i’m they wouldn’t leave this golden oppurtunity to work with.

    Comment by unidesign — 24 May 2007 #

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