All about the Fusion Middleware Best Practice Centers for Applications

Nishit Rao, Group Product Manager and Markus Zirn, Senior Director, Oracle Fusion Middleware discuss Oracle’s Fusion Middlware Best Practice Centers for E-Business Suite, Peoplesoft and Siebel, and how Application Developers can use the how-to guides, blogs and webcasts to learn FMW components and create SOA solutions with their favorite applications.

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A Big Fat Thanks/Things I Learned at Oracle OpenWorld (#oow09)

OK, it’s a wrap!
This is a big fat thank you to everyone who attended Oracle OpenWorld 2009, and especially to the Oracle ACEs who dragged themselves, in many cases, across continents and oceans to be there. You truly are the life-blood of the community. (And thanks especially for all the birthday greetings.)
If you couldn’t attend, [...]

Are Blog Comments Obsolete?

Photo by jrthoms from Flickr used under Creative Commons

I’ve been thinking about comments lately, mostly because several interesting points have converged to draw my attention.
First, Cult of Mac pointed out that John Gruber’s Daring Fireball will now have comments, via another site, i.e. DaringFireballWithComments.net.
Next, Engadget turned off their comments because the had “really gotten out [...]

Farewell to the Oracle Java Newsletter

No, we are not canceling the Oracle Java Newsletter (now called Dev2Dev), it’s just that I’m quitting my moonlighting job as a newsletter editor and putting it in the capable hands of Justin from OTN.
I’ve been editing the newsletter since the first edition in May 2004. Our goal was to have a vehicle to [...]

New JDeveloper and ADF Bloggers

It’s a slow week at work as most of the people are on vacation. So you might be wondering what to do with your extra free time.
Here is one option – catch up with some new blogs out there that cover JDeveloper and ADF.
Here are some of the latest additions since my last bloggers update:
Husain [...]

Install the E-Business Suite with Your Pals

My latest kick is to catalog useful information for reference purposes, which is one reason why I embarked on a quest to create a WebCenter VM.
Blogs are extremely good at SEO out of the box. So, it’s very likely that anyone searching for information on a technical topic will find a wealth of information from [...]

Getting Started with SOA & SOA Suite

We are getting a new team member at the start of next month and he asked me if I could recommend any resources for him to get up to speed on SOA and Oracle SOA Suite. So here is a list of resources that I provided him.
Web Sites

Oracle SOA Architect Center
Oracle SOA Suite Home [...]

Results from Recent Usability Research and Studies

Summary
Customers have asked about how we deal with customer feedback. Customers who have participated in feedback sessions are especially interested in understanding how their feedback was incorporated into My Oracle Support. This series should answer that question for you. Thanks Charles for bugging me to put this out!

The My Oracle Support design team reaches out [...]

New JDeveloper/ADF Bloggers

It’s always nice to see new people join the JDeveloper/ADF community – especially when these people are willing to contribute and share their knowledge.
So here is a quick shout out to a few bloggers who started to blog about JDeveloper and ADF in the recent months.
Make sure to add them to your feed:
Jobinesh – http://jobinesh.blogspot.com/
Maiko [...]

Using Schematron within BPEL

I have developed a simple utility that validates an input document against a schematron file and returns a validation report that returns the status of validation, together with the list of assertions that failed.
The utlity is registered as an XPath function and can be invoked from within the XSL Mapper.
Here are the steps for using [...]