"The Year of the ADF developer" at Oracle Open World 2011

What's one of the worst things about attending Oracle Open World? From my point of view it's the huge amount of marketing. Booooorrrring. I'm a developer, I want to hear technical stuff, not sales talk!!

For ADF developers attending OOW in 2011 this is all set to change. Not only has Oracle lined up a number of ADF presentations during the mainstream conference, but the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group (ADF EMG) has a whole day of sessions on the user group Sunday October 2nd!

Think about it. That's a mini ADF conference just for ADF programmers! Even better it will be hosted by ADF experts from around the world to share their day-to-day ADF experiences with you, not just in a brief 1hr session, but 6 sessions in total. That's a lot of ADF content and an addition for no extra cost to your OOW tickets.

So I officially declare OOW'11 "The Year of the ADF developer".


Who have we got lined up for you? I'm glad you asked. We have such A1 ADF presenters as:

* Sten Vesterli - Oracle ACE Director, author of the latest ADF book "Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development - Made Simple" and best speaker at the 2010 ODTUG Kscope conference.

* Frank Nimphius - Oracle Corp's own superstar ADF product manager who produces near-1000 blog posts a day, the ADF code harvests, articles in Oracle Magazine and is a top contributor to the OTN forums in assisting others write successful ADF applications.

* Maiko Rocha - part of Oracle Corp's own WebCenter A-Team who solves some of the most complex and challenging issues Oracle customers throw at ADF and WebCenter.

* Andrejus Baranovskis - ADF blogging wiz whose detailed posts on ADF architecture & best practices has shown many an ADF novice how to put together a working, optimised application using a huge range of ADF features.

* Wilfred van der Deijl - the author of potentially the most important ADF plug-in OraFormsFaces, which gives you the ability to integrate Oracle Forms & ADF into the same running web pages.

* Steven Davelaar - one of the key brains behind Oracle's JHeadstart, and a well known ADF presenter who shows how to push ADF to the extreme for productive development.

* Lucas Jellema - the Fusion Middleware blogging powerhouse from AMIS in the Netherlands, showing how to solve just a
bout any problem in the ADF and FMW space.


Excited? You should be.

But more importantly what are they presenting?


- 09:00 - Sten - Session 32460 - Oracle ADF Enterprise Methodology Group: Starting an Enterprise Oracle ADF Project

- 10:15 - Frank & Maiko - Session 32480 - Oracle ADF Enterprise Methodology Group: Learn Oracle ADF Task Flows in Only 60 Minutes

- 11:30 - Andrejus - Session 32481 - Oracle ADF Enterprise Methodology Group: A+-Quality Oracle ADF Code

- 12:45 - Wilfred - Session 32500 - Oracle ADF Enterprise Methodology Group: Transitioning from Oracle Forms to Oracle ADF

- 14:00 - Steven - Session 32501 - Oracle ADF Enterprise Methodoloy Group: Empower Multitasking with an Oracle ADF UI Powerhouse

- 15:15 - Lucas - Session 32502 - Oracle ADF Enterprise Methodology Group: Gold Nuggets in Oracle ADF Faces



All sessions will be held on Sunday October 2nd, so you need to make sure you turn up a day earlier if you only traditionally attend the main part of the conference.

All sessions are in Moscone West room 2000, though remember to check on the day in case the sessions have been moved.

I hope you’re excited as we are in the ADF EMG sessions at Oracle Open World 2011. We really hope you can attend and spread the word about what we’ve got going this year. Remember the ADF EMG is only as good as it’s members’ participation – it’s your group.

(Thanks must go to Bambi Price and the APOUC for giving us the room to hold these presentations at OOW'11).

A special event for ADF EMG members - world wide and virtual

I'm happy to announce that three key participants of the ADF EMG will be presenting alongside Oracle staff at the upcoming "OTN Virtual Developer Day - Rich Enterprise Applications" .... a virtual conference on all things "ADF" in early May, open to the general public.

Jean-Marc Desvaux, John Stegeman and Sten Vesterli will be presenting under the "Best Practices" stream on the following topics:

* ADF Security in a Project-Centric Environment - An ADF Case Study (Jean-Marc)
* The bit every one forgets: Unit testing your ADF applications with JUnit (John)
* Starting an Enterprise ADF project (Sten)

I need not remind members that these three gentlemen are well known in the ADF community for their volunteer efforts in writing blogs and presenting, writing OTN forum papers, answering OTN forum questions, and even an upcoming ADF book!

Overall what I like about this event is there's a good opportunity to pick and choose across 5 streams. As such depending on your experience and background, you can dip your toe into all sorts of different ADF topics, from basics to best practices, all from the comfort of you're own desk.

The online conference will be repeated in several time zones to ensure everyone gets a chance to attend:

N. America - Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
08:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. US PT

Europe / Russia - Tuesday, May 10th, 2011
08:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. U.K. Time
9:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. CET

Central / South America - Tuesday, May 17th, 2011
08:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. US Eastern Time
09:00 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Brazil time

Asia Pacific - Tuesday, May 24th, 2011
08:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. India Standard Time
10:30 a.m. – 02:30 p.m. Beijing Time

If you're interested in attending please follow this link to register.

Good luck to Jean-Marc, John and Sten, I look forward to hearing them present, all 3 always have valuable information to share.

Update: ADF EMG Oracle Open World 2010 Unconference Sessions

I teased in a previous post that I'd reserve publishing details about the ADF EMG Oracle Open World 2010 Unconference sessions till later. Well later is now, and I'm (you guessed it) excited to announce we have another full schedule at the Unconference. Read below for more details:

Where and when?

Location: Hotel Parc 55, 3rd Floor, Mason Room
Map: http://www.parc55hotel.com/map-and-directions
Date/time: Wednesday 22nd Sept 10:00-12:00
Duration: 120min

Topics and Speakers

Oracle ADF 11g and Oracle WebCenter 11g Production Demo

Andrejus Baranovskis - Red Samurai Consulting

During his session Andrejus will demonstrate two production systems, the first a retail system, and the second for the education sector. Both systems are based on a standard Oracle development architecture - utilising ADF BC, ADF Task Flows, ADF Libraries and Oracle's ADF UI Shell. The second system in addition implements Oracle WebCenter Services - Composer, Discussions, Document Management and RSS feeds, providing a Web 2.0 platform.

ADF BC 10g and ADF Faces 10g to ADF BC 11g and Trinidad, Live!

John Flack – Information Engineer Synectics for Management Decisions, Inc.

John will run a live lets-get-down-and-dirty demonstration of migrating a small ADF BC 10g/ADF Faces 10g application to ADF BC 11g and Apache MyFaces Trinidad. This will include steps to make the migration easier, the migration wizard, and how to clean up the application after migration, as well some differences between ADF Faces 10g and Trinidad. John will also show some steps needed which aren't documented, from some hard-earned real-life experience.

Demonstration of UW-Madison's Scholarship Application

Todd Hill & Ed O'Connor-Giles – Development Services Specialist and Technical Leader at the University of Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin-Madison automates management, evaluation, and awarding of scholarships -- and the online application experience for students -- with an application built on Oracle ADF. In this session Todd and Ed from the university will demonstrate the application and their technical approach, discuss the many real-world technical challenges faced, and lessons learned in the course of the project.

Integrating 3rd party tools/frameworks into ADF

Gert Leenders - Product Manager at Axi Nv

Gert will discuss their latest ADF project resulting in a real Java technology mash-up showing how ADF can be integrated with several different product. The core remains ADF but for the management of the business processes his team integrated JBoss jBPM, JBoss Drools as a business rule engine, and last but not least Alfresco & UCM as a content repository through the use of CMIS.

ADF - How much do you really need to know?

Sten Vesterli

How much knowledge is enough? You could spend months or even years learning to master all aspects of ADF Business Components and ADF Faces, but you already know that you don't need to know everything. This presentations proposes a set of ADF skill levels and a way to classify application complexity - and a way to map these, so you know what skill levels you need in order to build a given application.

Don't forget...

Don't forget that the ADF EMG also has an on-schedule session on Sunday 19th:

Session ID: S313445
Location: Moscone West, Level 3, Room 3012
Date/time: Sunday 19th Sept 14:00-15:00

...with the following well respected ADF and JSF speakers:

• Frank Nimphius
• Kito Mann
• Aino Andriessen
• Sten Vesterli

We look forward to seeing you in San Francisco!

ADF EMG at OOW'10 - a must attend event

The ADF Enterprise Methodology Group (ADF EMG) is happy to announce we've more sessions lined up at Oracle Open World 2010. As many readers will know, the ADF EMG is where ADF users get down and dirty in discussing their FMW experiences.

This year we have 3 sessions:

• (Official on-schedule slot) S313445 - ADF Enterprise Methodology
  Group - Sunday, September 19, 14:00-15:00 | Moscone West L3, Rm 3012
• (2 x Unconference slots) - Wednesday, September 22nd, 10:00-12:00 | Hotel Parc 55, Mason Room

Yeah, you say, but so what, who will be talking? Well how about the following presenters to tickle your fancy?

• Frank Nimphius, well known as one of the top JDev Product Managers presenting on ADF-Security-or-Bust
• Kito Mann, a key JSF contributor presenting on JSF2.0
• Andrejus Baranovskis one of the ADF communities leading bloggers and presenters demoing a new ADF production system
• Aino Andriessen of the we-only-hire-geniuses-mold from Amis on the ultimate smackdown, Automated vs Manual Builds
• Sten Vesterli, ODTUG's 2009 best speaker, giving us some facts and myths about ADF Tuning

There's more to come, but I'm keeping Mum to save something to publish later :-)

The success of the ADF EMG is driven by you, the reader showing interest and attending. Help our volunteers to help you: We hope to see you there.

ADF EMG goes international - UKOUG style

I'm happy to say that the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group is running its first UKOUG presentation this year at their annual technology conference in Birmingham November 30th-December 2nd. This is a pretty exciting development for us, as this will be the first ADF EMG session run outside of the USA!

My colleague in ADF crime Simon Haslam, who organised and ran our OOW sessions this year, invites anybody who is interested in ADF and wants to talk with other users to attend. At OOW we had the rather pleasing experience of several ADF "production" system demonstrations which was pretty cool, and hopefully at the UKOUG we can get some of you to talk about your ADF experiences too.

Unfortunately I'm just on 14590.82kms away (9066.56 miles for our UK friends) and wont be able to make it. If only it was a couple clicks closer, oh, and not across several oceans & continents, and a tad warmer too.

Where real ADF developers meet - OOW09 ADF EMG

Once again the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group is meeting at Oracle Open World to discuss JDeveloper and ADF, and we invite you to join us. This year Simon Haslam has taken the reins and delivered not 1 but 3 sessions at OOW which is an impressive effort.

Of particular interest to me is the "Show me yours!" session where ADF experts will be showing their production level ADF applications, essentially JDeveloper applications in the wild! We encourage you to join us, if not to show and tell, to just hear discussions among ADF experts on what challenges and solutions they're working with each day in the ADF market.

Can't make OOW this year but really want to attend ADF EMG? Are you attending the upcoming UKOUG conference instead? ADF EMG is going international this year, after our success at the ODTUG conference session in the excellent hands of Nathalie Roman, then OOW in October, we're happy to announce we'll be running a session at the UKOUG conference too. Watch this space for more information soon!

Join 180 members of the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group (+ minor name change)

Just a small note for the millions of my readers (hi Mum!) who care about such, that the ADF Methodology group (that's group with a lower g) has been renamed the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group (that's group with an upper G) to better reflect, um, well if you're really interested it's documented here.

(It would be appreciated if Oracle employee's in charge of websites and similar that link to the original group could update any link names please)

For those who'd like to know more about the group, following is a little marketing spin to drag you in:

You can easily tell when a tool has matured to being a productive environment. Software developers move from playing and learning features, to supporting production systems and discussing best practices and development methodologies to ensure the success of their next project.

The ADF Enterprise Methodology Group is such a place for community discussions based around JDeveloper best practices and methodologies for ADF Enterprise development. On a day by day bases ADF "experts" (that's anyone that knows what ADF stands for ;-) chat about high level ADF concepts, beyond the how-do-I-get-it-to-work posts on the OTN JDeveloper Forums.

If you'd like to discuss best practices, steps and processes for a successful ADF project, please join us at:

http://groups.google.com/group/adf-methodology

We look forward to talking to you on the group soon.