Logica Denmark is proud to announce an free full day APEX seminar. Come by and hear Anthony Rayner from the APEX Development team introduce the product and demo some of the features coming in release 4.0. Erik Birklund Andersen and Peter Lorenzen will talk about Logica’s experience with APEX and the business opportunities they see. The seminar takes place in Aarhus 15 of September.

For registration and more information check logica.dk/apex

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Finally on Wednesday 1st of July Oracle released their highly promoted new version of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

A lot of new stuff and concepts to play with like Composites, Event Driven Architectur (EDA), Complex Event Processing (CEP)…
AND now based on the Oracle Weblogic Server (from the BEA acquisition) which will for sure make all better performing and stable.

Based on my Beta findings it will be a great step forward for Service Oriented Architecture.
It is now all highly integrated and all Java based (also Business Activity Monitoring - BAM).

Hopefully upcoming time I will have more possibility to try things out and share the findings.

For now try it out yourself and tell me your findings
All stuff as well as the webcast on the release can be found via:
Introduction to Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g

Greetz,
Jørn

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For quite some time I have been thinking about trying out that ‘Cloud-thing‘ and see what all the fuzz is about. Because at first I was very skeptic, ‘how is this any different then a normal hosting service’ or ‘how does this any different than a grid’. Because depending on the used definition, or cloud provider, those difference are subtle.

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A few weeks ago there was a kick-off for the ‘workshop season’ at Logica. The IDT Java department made a very broad roadmap of workshop topics of which Domain Driven Design (DDD) was the first to be held. On May 5th and 7th the DDD workshop was held in Rotterdam. The workshop was centered around the philosophy of DDD and some practice with the material.

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Most people probably all ready noticed that this blog has been pretty quiet for a while. But that doesn’t mean that there is not much going on in the java/oracle world !
For instance, today Oracle announced to take-over sun ! Last weeks rumors were all around, about IBM trying to buy Sun, but it turns out that Oracle won the fight.
So actually when last year we merged our oracle and java blog into one blog, we were just ahead of the curve

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Sun’s Java 1.4 has quietly gone end-of-life since 30 October; see Sun’s Java SE 1.4.2 page:

J2SE 1.4.2 is in its Java Technology End of Life (EOL) transition period. The EOL transition period began Dec, 11 2006 and will complete October 30th, 2008, when J2SE 1.4.2 will have reached its End of Service Life (EOSL).

This doesn’t mean that Sun doesn’t support Java 1.4 anymore - with Sun’s Java SE for Business you can get up to 15 years of support for older Java versions.

However, if you’re on a project that still uses Java 1.4 you should really upgrade to Java 6, if you have any say into which Java version is being used. Besides the new features added in Java 5 and 6, you’ll enjoy the performance enhancements and bug fixes.

If you’re a Java programmer and you still didn’t learn the new Java 5 features… then you’re in trouble.

The SCJP exam for Java 1.4 has been discontinued this month.

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Last thursday I visited a presentation about Process Acceleration (PA) [1]. PA is a Business Change method that also uses separation of concerns: it separates the end result from anything else in the business process. The end result of the process is the success state, i.e. all employees correctly submitted their billing forms and all team managers got a correct summary by mail. The emphasis lies primarely on getting the definition of the end result as accurate as possible.

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According to Google Trends SOA is not as “hot” as it was a year ago. According to a recent poll by Finalist [0] at the J-Fall [1] SOA is actually very “not”. Does this mean that companies are already preparing or even using SOA? Or are they abandoning SOA?

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Tomorrow is the start of a new ‘Pro4Pro season’. Pro4Pro sessions are given by some of the best professionals of Logica. “Extreem RAD : Live Web Applicatie Ontwikkeling met Oracle Application Express” “Standardizing SOA with Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture” “Practical Approach to SOA Adoption”

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Guru4Pro Thomas Erl - - ‘How to overcome the key challenges within SOA’.
Date: 20 oktober 2008

On Monday the 20th of October Logica has invited Thomas Erl to speak on the Principles of Service Design and Patterns to transform the most important challenges into a successful realization of a Service Oriented Architecture. Business analyst, functional designers and architects will gain new valuable insights on the modeling of services and supporting architecture.

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