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Got my speaker invitation for Oracle OpenWorld 2007

21 August 2007 at 15:57 CEST | In Forms, Oracle, Web components | 5 Comments

I just returned from a very rainy holiday in Cornwall, UK. After a good night sleep, I checked my email and was happy to see an invitation to speak at Oracle OpenWorld 2007 in San Francisco. After the success of my paper and presentation at ODTUG Kaleidoscope on integrating Oracle Forms and JavaServer Faces, I decided to submit an updated version of the abstract to Oracle OpenWorld through ODTUG.

It does mean another trip to the USA, which is a good thing. It also means a whole lot of work to prepare for the presentation. I want to add two things compared to the ODTUG version. I’m working on a full featured JSF component that does all the integration for you. This hides a lot of the complexity of the integration from the page developer. I would love to demonstrate this component approach at OpenWorld, but that would mean I have to finish it by then and it still needs a lot of work. Another thing I want to add to the presentation is a demonstration or at least explanation of how the integration can be done with Oracle Forms 11g. This new version will have a native JavaScript API which removes the need of adding this API to Forms yourself. This means the integration between JSF and Forms should be much cleaner when using Forms version 11g. A beta version of Forms 11g should be available before OpenWorld, so I hope to do some testing before OpenWorld.

Here’s the abstract I submitted:

How Oracle ADF Faces Can Use Oracle Forms as UI Components

This session shows how an Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) Faces Web application can reuse Oracle Forms as UI components. Organizations can reap the benefits of new Oracle ADF developments without rewriting existing Oracle Forms applications. A JavaScript API enables both technologies to raise events and pass data to each other. This API is a forthcoming Oracle Forms 11g feature that can also be added to an existing Oracle Forms version.

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