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Oracle releases hands-on material Developer Day

Grant Ronald has a great series of Hands-On Lessons on OTN to introduce J2EE development to Forms and Designer Developers. The material is from the Oracle Developer Days, which I still hope to see in the Netherlands. Grant just told me he will update the material to the just release 10.1.3 version of JDeveloper in the next week or so.

Currently the page has versions for JDeveloper 10.1.2 and the Early Access1 release of 10.1.3. I’m looking forward to seeing the material for the final 10.1.3 version. It gives a great introduction to J2EE development. If you’re a Forms developer wanting/making the switch to J2EE you should really take a look. Even if you’re not thinking of switching to J2EE in the short term it’s probably a wise thing to have look, just to stay on top of things.

Free Oracle Java Days in the Benelux?

I just noticed that Grant Ronald blogged about a couple of forthcoming FREE workshops in 2006 in several countries. They have also been running these workshops last year in a couple of countries. They run two different workshops. One is to introduce J2EE application development to Forms/Designer developers and the other one is on more advanced Java topics covering EJB 3.0 and JSF.

I’m just dying to attend these workshops. Unfortunately there are no scheduled dates for the Benelux/Netherlands. If you feel you would benefit from this training as well, please comment to this blog entry. If there is enough interest we can see if we can get Oracle to run something in the Benelux.

Last September I attended a free evening session at AMIS about JSF and the turnout was quite large. So, I’m guessing there must be a lot of interest in these subjects from the Benelux region. The Netherlands always had a large number of Forms/Designer users, so come on guys and girls and show you’re interest.

Update 6-jan-2006: Hans Bos from Oracle Tech Marketing Benelux has commented to this blog entry. I’ve also been in contact with him by email. It really looks like they’re going to run the Developer Days in the Benelux. Oracle Netherlands is currently talking to the guys from Oracle UK who give the workshops in other countries.
This is great news and I would like to thank Oracle Netherlands for taking this initiative. Let’s hope the turnout is as large as what I expect it to be. As soon as dates are announced I will write another blog entry about it.
Until then you can keep showing you’re interest by commenting to this entry. Also, keep your suggestions for the content coming in.

Here are the two descriptions from the Oracle UK site:

Mobile applications? Web services? Rich web clients? How can Oracle Forms and Designer users take advantage of these new technologies? This presentation gives Oracle Forms and Designer users a practical introduction to Oracle’s complete J2EE application infrastructure and Java development environment.

Taught by the Oracle product managers who brought their Forms expertise to design Oracle Application Development Framework–a product that abstracts much of the complexity of J2EE and enables rapid application development for J2EE–this presentation will introduce concepts familiar in Forms that also exist in ADF, including data blocks, canvases, triggers and record groups.

This Developer Day will show how 4GL RAD developers can quickly become productive with the use of a visual, declarative, framework-based approach to J2EE application development

This Java Day covers building applications the new set Java Enterprise technologies (EJB 3.0 and JSF).

The event consists of short talks, demonstrations and practical labs that will give the attendees a taste of Oracle’s state of the art Java development Tooling.
As Co Spec lead and provider of the reference implementation for EJB 3.0 Oracle is uniquely qualified to teach this significant new persistence technology.
JSF is set to become the face of server based Java applications in the future. As an active participant in the JSF specification (and contributor to MyFaces project) Oracle is the ideal source of JSF tooling.

By attending this event you will be at the leading edge of Java technology and will gain insight into how Oracle is contributing to the Java community

Working experience or good understanding of Java & J2EE is required for this Advanced Java Day event.

First workshop on ADF for Forms developers

Grant Ronald just released the first of a series of five workshops to show ADF development to Forms/Designer developers. There is a viewlet quickly showing the (basic) application you will be building through the five workshops. The first workshop is already available and shows you how to setup a database connection from JDeveloper and draw a Database Diagram. It also shows you how to setup the initial page flow diagram without building any webpages yet. Grant is planning on releasing the other four workshops in the coming 10 days.

I know Grant Ronald and Sue Harper are working hard to familiarize the Forms/Designer developers with the new J2EE way of doing things. The have a great subsite on OTN specifically targeted at this group. There are a lot of great articles on J2EE/ADF development at this site. If you’re a (former) Forms/Designer developer getting started with J2EE/ADF development you should really keep your eyes on this site and follow these workshops. You can find the first workshop under the News section and I guess that’s also where you will find the other four once they are released.

The material from the workshop supports the successful Oracle Developer Day program they have been running globally over the past months. I’ve been in contact with Grant Ronald about running the same program in the Netherlands. Let’s hope Oracle is willing to do so…

New J2EE for Forms/Designer site on OTN

Just saw on Grant Ronald’s Blog that they’ve launched a new subsite on OTN targeted at Forms/Designer developers making the switch to J2EE.

We’re in the middle of such a transition, so this is perfect timing. Could it be they launched this site especially for us? Or would they large number of Oracle customers in the same situation have anything to do with it?