Ensemble 10.3 Released – Overview Demo

Tom Quigley just published an excellent viewlet on the brand new Ensemble 10.3. His demo highlights how straight forward it is to inject content into any web application. Here is a brief summary of Ensemble: Ensemble is a reverse proxy through which end users view Web applications. For example, a customer might control access to [...]

Fusion Middleware Keynote by Thomas Kurian

In today’s keynote Thomas gave a detailed overview about Oracle’s middleware stack. From the Enterprise 2.0 space he highlighted the integration between WebCenter, Universal Content Management, and Beehive. If you missed the session, you can access the recorded presentation from the OpenWorld Keynote page on OTN.

Oracle JDeveloper 11g Announced

In the Developer Keynote Ted Farrell announced Oracle JDeveloper 11g and ADF 11g. The release date is October 1. While this release doesn’t contain full SOA and WebCenter capabilities, the production version of JDeveloper and ADF allows you to get started with actual development. As the SOA and WebCenter pieces become available you can easily [...]

From the Demo Pods: Live Video Integration with WebCenter Spaces

Our WebCenter Spaces demo pod has a web cam attached to and demonstrates how you can integrate live video chats into your web applications. We use a solution provided by TokBox. The photo below features two WebCenter product managers: Christian Hauser and Sanjay Khanna. Come to the demo pod and meet them, see other excitng [...]

ADF Methodology – Unconference Session

Unconference sessions provide yet another great way to hear/learn from experts, as well as to contribute to share your experience. Here is the list of unconference sessions at this year’s OpenWorld. The keeps changing and growing, but from today’s snapshot the ADF Methodology and the Enterprise 2.0 ones sound really interesting. When and Where? Moscone [...]

Competitors, FUD, and the Future

The other day, Vince Casarez, Vice President for Product Management, responsible for the portal products at Oracle, published a post on the official WebCenter blog, http://blogs.oracle.com/webcenter. In the note, titled You can tell how worried a competitor is by how much FUD they spread… Vince makes it clear what we mean by developing and supporting [...]

Build the Coolest WebCenter Application Ever – in 60 Minutes

Before Oracle OpenWorld 2008 kicks off in a week’s time in San Francisco, I plan to post a couple of highlights from the WebCenter space. This is the first one in the series. At a conference of this size, one of the toughest challenges is how to best spend your time, what is really worth [...]

Dedicated Blog for OpenWorld Visitors

If you’re coming to San Francisco to attend Oracle OpenWorld in a couple of weeks, the blog you definitely want to check out is the official blog of all things Oracle OpenWorld. It’s an excellent collection of very useful information from technical bloggers to exploring and tablehopping in San Francisco.

Portal Related Sessions at Oracle OpenWorld 2008 in San Francisco

I created a simple Google Calendar containing the sessions from this year’s Oracle OpenWorld that are related to the Portal, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 technology space. You can use your own RSS reader, iCal, or simply the native HTML calendar of google. Use the Content Catalog to find other sessions that are of interest to [...]

Oracle Portal 11g New Features

We’re about to post the updated Oracle Portal Statement of Direction on the Oracle Portal page on OTN. Oracle Portal 11g is part of Fusion Middleware 11g, and will be released at the same time, currently scheduled for the first half of calendar year 2009. Here is the summary of the planned new features in [...]