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Two proposed OpenWorld sessions

23 May 2008 at 22:13 CEST | In JDeveloper, Oracle, SOA | Leave the first comment

I’ve proposed two sessions at Oracle Mix. The first one is titled “Oracle Forms as JSF components, enabling gradual migration” and the second one “Donor Organ matching with Oracle Business Rules 11g“. If you think these sessions could be of added value to the OpenWorld conference, please read the abstracts and cast your vote.

The Oracle Forms/JSF session is all about the OraFormsFaces JSF component library I developed. It allows you to re-use existing Oracle Forms as full featured JSF components in a JSF or ADF Faces page. This can be a great solution to a gradual migration from Oracle Forms to JSF/ADF. It allows you to embed all of your existing forms in JSF/ADF and then migrate/rewrite them to the new technology at your own pace and one-at-a-time.

The other session is about a proof of concept at Eurotransplant to use Oracle Business Rules 11g to implement all the rules that go into matching an available donor organ to all the patients on the waiting list. These rules are determined by democratic committees and tend to grow quite complex over the years. Using Business Rules the rules can be unambiguously specified. The specified rules can be verified by non-IT personal and allow for some great innovations. One of the best parts is that the rules can be understood, verified, and audited by other people. That’s not so easy if all the rules are embedded in complex PL/SQL, Java, or other 3GL programming language.