This week JavaPolis, the big European yearly Java conference, was held in Antwerp. Like the previous years, Monday and Tuesday were the “University” days and Wednesday, Thursday and Friday were the “Conference” days. I went to the Conference days.
On Wednesday, James Gosling, who was at JavaPolis for the first time, held a keynote presentation about [...]

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Finally, I can offload some of my UKOUG stuff.
First the Budget-justification (management is reading - sometimes). Like every year, I can justify visiting UKOUG as a training cost. I have learned more in four days UKOUG then I would have on just about any (Oracle) course and have saved my employer some money [...]

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This was my first time at the UKOUG conference. It has been a nice week. I think there was almost 3.000 delegates, so it is a pretty big event compared to the 600 that were at the ODTUG conference. Every room has an usher and a technical person to setup the audio/visual equipment which made [...]

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The last day of the conference already…
The day started with a presentation on Datamodelling using JDev. The presenter showed how JDev could replace Designer for modelling. Imho JDev doesn’t support logical modelling at all (he misused Java class models to represent a logical model), there is no repository and no relation between a logical and [...]

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The (rather ambitious) schedule for today was :
Lost in JDeveloper by Sten Vesterli : Sten guided the (Forms experienced) audience in creating an ADF Swing Client App ofcourse declaratively (next to AJAX this is the buzzword of the conference : everything should be declarative, you can be a programmer when you’ re able in controlling [...]

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After yesterdays Blogger Meetup it was hard to start the day…
The first session of the day was Sue Harper’s talk on SQL Developer Latest Features. She mainly focussed on the new / enhanced features of version 1.5, that will be production somewhere (early?) 2008. To name some new features : external authentication (OPS$ users), [...]

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After a rough flight yesterday I arrived in Birmingham. The city has a complete Christmans atmosphere, as you might expect at this time of year. There even is a ‘real’ Frankfurter Christmas market with ‘Beer und Bratwurst‘ and hot wine - and lots and lots of other more or less Christmas related stuff. I made [...]

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