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APEX seminar in Aarhus, Denmark

Peter Lorenzen — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:56:09 +0000

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

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g released

Jorn Schurink — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 07:26:44 +0000

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

Oracle meets ‘the’ Sun

Arjen van Schie — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 16:30:40 +0000

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

See this link for more info on the takeover http://www.sun.com/third-party/global/oracle/index.jsp

On the other hand there has been a lot of fuzz about the release of java 7, for instance closures are not likely to enter java after all in java 7, but all kinds of other things are. See this link for more information about java 7 . Also take notice of project coin where developers brought in some very interesting ideas (small improvements) for the new java version.

Pro4Pro season starting tomorrow

Arjen van Schie — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:31:07 +0000

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”

Subject: “Extreem RAD : Live Web Applicatie Ontwikkeling met Oracle Application Express”
Pro: Roel Hartman
Office: Arnhem, the Netherlands
Date: 28 oktober 2008

Subject: “Standardizing SOA with Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture”
Pro: Adri Greeve
Office: Rotterdam
Date: 13 november 2008

Subject: “Practical Approach to SOA Adoption”
Pro: Edwin van Dis
Office: Amstelveen
Date: 27 november 2008

Guru4Pro: Thomas Erl @ Logica

Arjen van Schie — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:21:03 +0000

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.

About Thomas Erl:
Thomas Erl is the world’s top-selling SOA author, Series Editor of the “Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl” (www.soabooks.com), and Editor of The SOA Magazine (www.soamag.com). With over 95,000 copies in print world-wide, his books have become international bestsellers. His most recent titles “SOA Design Patterns” (www.soapatterns.com) and “Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA” were co-authored with a series of industry experts and are being released in the latter half of 2008.

Thomas is also the founder of SOA Systems Inc. (www.soasystems.com), a company specializing in SOA training, certification, and strategic consulting services with a vendor-agnostic focus. For more information, visit www.thomaserl.com.

Program
18.00 uur Welcome & diner
19.00 uur Welcome speach
19.15 uur Thomas Erl – ‘How to overcome the key challenges within SOA’
20.30 uur Drinks

The presentation will be in English of course.

Location
Logica, Prof. W.H. Keesomlaan 14 in Amstelveen

There is more info on the Logica site (in Dutch). You can also register (”aanmeldingsformulier”) there.

Guru4Pro: Tom Kyte @ Logica

Roel — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:17:51 +0000

In the afternoon of November 3 Oracle guru Tom Kyte will talk about “11 Things about 11g” at the Logica office in Amstelveen (near Amsterdam). I have attended this presentation at ODTUG this year and I assure you it’s worthwhile! After his presentation Tom will also do an AskTom Live session. So a great opportunity to enhance your knowledge with everything you wanted to know about Oracle but you never dared to ask…
There is more info on the Logica site (in Dutch, but Tom will do his presentation in English ofcourse). You can also register (”aanmeldingsformulier”) there.

New Oracle Developer Certification (professional)

Jasper — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:43:17 +0000

If you would like to be an Oracle Certified Profressional on a developer level, OCA + Forms was always the only way to go. Until now! Oracle is currently running a beta exam on OCP that includes not Oracle Forms, but goes in deeper to PL/SQL. The official title: Oracle Advanced PL/SQL Developer Certified Professional. The exam (IZ0-146) contains the following subjects:

Oracle11g: Advanced PL/SQL
PL/SQL Programming Concepts: Review
Designing PL/SQL Code
Working with Collections
Using Advanced Interface Methods
Implementing Fine-Grained Access Control for VPD
Manipulating Large Objects
Administering SecureFile LOBs
Performance and Tuning
Improving Performance with Caching
Analyzing PL/SQL Code
Profiling and Tracing PL/SQL Code
Safeguarding Your Code Against SQL Injection Attacks

More info: http://education.oracle.com/pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=155

APEX application for maintaining personal contracts

Jasper — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:35:34 +0000

APEX is famous for it’s useful applications, so when the idea poped into my head that I would like to track my personal contracts, APEX was first in line to develop such an application.

The purpose of this app is to be able to track longrunning contracts with their renewalperiods. One month before you should end the contract (checked on contract enddate) you’ll receive an email. I used Oracle’s DBMS_SCHEDUAL to call the procedure that sends out the email. Also, it has an authentication scheme so that different users can use this online app. Although it’s dutch, everyone can apply now.

http://apex.oracle.com/pls/otn/f?p=23729

OWSM seminar in Copenhagen

Peter Lorenzen — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 19:05:57 +0000

Tuesday the 9 of September our ½ day Oracle Web Services Manager seminar took place. There were 23 participants. Everything went according to the plan even the live demos. My colleague Erik Birklund started the day with a quick intro to the business drive for Web Services and security. The rest of the day I did a technical introduction to OWSM. The product is not that “big” so we got around pretty much every option. There were a couple of people present that just went live with OWSM which was nice because then we could also get their perspective on things.

The seminar was well received and we got good evaluations. All in all a great day. You can find the presentations here www.logica.dk/owsm

Logica’s presentations at UKOUG 2008

Roel — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:13:52 +0000

Logica does six presentations during the upcoming UKOUG on 1-5 December in Birmingham. For the record: The UKOUG is the largest European Oracle related conference with about 3,000 attendees.

When	What	Who
Monday, Dec 1, 11:00-12:00	Is my Disaster (re)covered?	Piet de Visser
Tuesday, Dec 2, 13:05-13:50	Streamlining the Sales Cycle - Integrating Salesforce.com CRM with Oracle Quoting	Paul Colton
Thursday, Dec 4, 10:45-11:30	Being Steven Feuerstein	Andrew Clarke
Thursday, Dec 4, 11:55-12:40	Designing PL/SQL applications	Andrew Clarke
Thursday, Dec 4, 11:55-12:40	Capturing Internal Demand – which Tool to use?	Mike Turner
Thursday, Dec 4, 15:05-15:50	Developing a Real-World Logistic Application with Oracle Application Express (S301752)	Roel Hartman

Click here to see the full UKOUG agenda online.