Report From Oracle Open World 2008 AMIS 2 October2008

The AMIS Report from Oracle Open World 2008 2 nd of October 2008 AMIS

Agenda
Overview
Oracle Strategy & Vision
AMIS@Oracle Open World
SOA & BPM
Middleware & Infrastructure
Dinner
Database
Oracle Applications
Development & Enterprise 2.0
It’s a Wrap!

Some metrics
43.000 attendees
300 from The Netherlands
7 from AMIS
$100M+ revenue in San Francisco
1890 sessions
5 from AMIS
Hands-on, Keynotes, Panels, Unconference Exhibition Hall & Demopods, Party, ‘events’

The Big Announcements
The Database Machine
Oracle Beehive

Trimaran next America’s Cup entry

Smaller Announcements
Cloud Computing
Toplink (based on EclipseLink) 11g
Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE)
JDeveloper 11g/ADF 11g go production
RDBMS 11.1.0.7
BEA integration & roadmap
Oracle Application Testing Suite
eBusiness Suite R12.1
Enterprise Manager Real-User Monitoring (fka Moniforce)
Entitlements Server
WebLogic 10.3
WebCenter 10.3
BPM Suite – BPM, Rules, BAM, Enterprise Repository,..

Expectations

SOA & BPM Peter Ebell Expertise Manager, AMIS

Oracle SOA Evolution

Oracle SOA Suite
SOA Suite 10.1.3.4 is released
10.1.3.5 planned for February 2009
Beta 11g in October?
One of the improvements: FINALLY you can see message content in Manual Message Recovery pages!

The Buy Of A Lifetime
We are used to Oracle buying new products on a regular basis.
With the purchase of BEA they didn’t buy a new product, they bought an almost fully overlapping toolstack.

The Future of SOA Middleware - I

The Future of SOA Middleware - II

The Overview

Coherence Cache/Data Grid/Application Grid/SOA Grid/...
Oracle Coherence (formerly Tangosol Coherence) was among the biggest news on OOW2007
Almost every java-based Product Development team within Oracle was talking with them about integrating/using Coherence with their products….
… and they still are …
… and some have made serious progress:
Toplink (used Coherence as distributed Cache, and Coherence uses Toplink as JPA implementation)
Complex Event Processing (more on this later)
…

SOA Grid - I

SOA Grid - II

The Overview

Oracle Service Bus
Previously known as Aqualogic Service Bus, now Oracle Service Bus (OSB)
Direct competition for the ESB in the SOA Suite (now known as OESB, renamed to “Mediator” in R11g)
Much more “mature” than OESB:
Much better support for VETO (Validate-Enrich-Transform-Operate) pattern (specifically the “E”).
More powerful transformation possibilities (not just XSLT but also “assign”-like operations).
Much better console (services can be built from scratch using only browser)
Much better High Performance features (throttling, content-based message priority, partial message extraction,….)
Also lacking some important features:
No SCA (Service Component Architecture) support
Domain-Value maps
No JCA Adapter support => can’t use SOA Suite adapters

Fusion Middleware 11g R1

Service Component Architecture

The Overview

Event Driven SOA (ED-SOA)
It’s not a Queue implementation, it’s not an Enterprise Service Bus…
Its something in between..

Need support for:
High Volume
Continuous Streaming
Sub-millisecond latency
Time-window processing
Complex pattern matching

Oracle CEP
At OOW2007, Complex Event Processing was put on the map within Oracle with a CQL (Continuous Query Language), but it had no place to run (yet)
BEA had the BEA Event Server with their own, less powerful query language (EQL).
A match made in heaven => Oracle CEP
Lightweight POJO-based container (Spring framework used extensively).
Processes Event streams, can forward to BAM (dashboard, alerting) & SOA infrastructure (ESB) process initiation
Works perfectly together with (Coherence) Data Grid

High-Available CEP Reference Architecture

The Overview

SOA Governance

Oracle BPM
Formerly known as AquaLogic Business Process Management
Direct competition for Oracle BPEL:
Standards based
Designtime for Business Analist (BPM Studio)
Eclipse IDE for Developer
Runtime engine (BPM Server)
Management Console, BAM integration
Human Workflow
Compared:
Oracle BPM better support for human workflow
BPEL PM better support for automation
Both based on standards
Oracle BPM has uniform view, BPEL PM requires transformation
Oracle BPM : Closed loop with BPA Suite and BAM integration almost realized

Future: Oracle BPM & BPEL PM
BPEL PM and Oracle BPM will share common runtime engine.
Gut feeling: BPEL used more for “technical” processes, composite services etc. Oracle BPM for “business” processes with human interaction.

Oracle Applications – Application Integration Architecture Lucas Jellema Expertise Manager, AMIS

Application Integration Architecture
Enterprise business processes across all products
Synergy between products from Oracle Apps stack
EBS, PSFT, SIBL, JDE, …
Integrate with SAP and (other) legacy applications
Acquire additional modules from Oracle Applications
And synergize with others
Prepare for evolutionary introduction of Fusion Applications

AIA Foundation Pack

AIA based Composite Applications

Enterprise Composite Applications
AIA Foundation Pack
Comes with plug in for JDeveloper
To create Data Controls based on the Enterprise Business Services
To quickly create User Interfaces on top of (any of the) Oracle Applications, SAP or legacy applications
Leverages Fusion Middleware
Note: Also plugin available for MS Visual Studio

Enterprise Composite Applications

AIA & ADF
Plug-in for JDeveloper to quickly create Entity Objects & View Objects on AIA Enterprise Business Services

Steps in AIA Plugin for ADF

AIA EBS based Data Control fuels UI

Oracle Applications
Products that make up Oracle Applications
Strategy with regard to Industry Specific solutions
Recent Acquisitions (SkyWire, AdminServer,..)
Unlimited Applications
Applications On Demand & On Premises
Recent & pending releases
EBS R12.1 – new functionality
Fusion Applications
Integrating existing Oracle Applications products
Mutually and with SAP and legacy applications
Preparing for Fusion Applications
Best practice for SOA implementations with Oracle FMW

Oracle Development Technology – Lucas Jellema Expertise Manager, AMIS

Development
SQL Developer
APEX
Forms
Java Development
Non-ADF
ADF
Application Testing

Wild nights in San Francisco…

SQL Developer
1.5.2 in October (and embedded in JDeveloper 11g)
Support for many databases (through JDBC & ODBC)
Oracle 9i, 10g, 11g, TimesTen
MySQL, Access, SQL Server, Sybase
New/Enhanced features
Schema Copy & Compare
HTML Documentation
Unit Testing
Export & Import
SQL Formatting
Searching
Code Templates
Tuning: Execution Plans, Generate Trace, Real Time Monitoring, Parse SQL Trace Files, Hierarchical Profiler

SQL Developer 2.0 - Modeling
Modeling – as stand alone or SQL Developer plug in
Conceptual Modeling – ERD
Logical Modeling – Table, Constraints and Data TypeDesign
Physical Modeling
Design Capture (Import) from
from DDL and Database (Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, UDB, JDBC)
Oracle Designer & OWB
Generate DDL & Export
File based repository
Moving to Data Dictionary extension (?)
Extra cost option

What’s in a name… Design Capture ! Migrator !!! CONVERTER

Forms to APEX conversion
APEX team states:
Forms is not going away
However…

Alternative: Forms Rejuvenation…
Or:
OraFormsFaces
Forms => ADF Conversion

Forms to APEX Conversion

Forms to APEX conversion
A way to jumpstart an Oracle Forms to APEX modernization project
If that is where you want to go…
A way to jumpstart development of an application that exposes part of a Forms application in HTML
Automatic conversion of Forms components that can be automatically converted to native APEX components
Blocks, items, simple derivation/calculation/validation, overall layout structure (order of items and blocks,…)
NOT: triggers, program units, layout specifics
Easy way to browse your Forms application logic
A convenient tool to track manual conversion of Trigger and other non-convertible logic

APEX Roadmap
Current: 3.1
Introduced Interactive Reports
Soon: 3.2
Forms Conversion
Later: 4.0
Websheets
APEX Listener
Improved Tabular Forms
Dynamic Actions
client side manipulation of UI properties – e.g. show/hide

APEX Development

When to APEX or not?
APEX
Small team
Short time to market
Short lifespan
Data oriented UI
PL/SQL skills
Oracle only (friendly) environment
Not APEX
Large(r) team
Complex application
Task/Process oriented UI
Long (expected) life cycle
No existing PL/SQL skills
SOA integration
(more/somewhat) open
Scalability important

Many sessions on APEX

Sessions on Oracle Forms

Forms 11g
Part of Fusion Middleware 11gR1 (H1Y2009)
JavaScript API
AQ interaction (server to client push
Certification WebLogic 10.3(.1) & OAS (OC4J) 11g
Integrate with/embed in ADF (JSF) applications using OraFormsFaces

OraFormsFaces

Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse (OEPE)
Set of plugins to support J(2)EE Development in Eclipse
JSF Visual Editor & Component Palette
Easy deployment to WebLogic (10.3, 10.0, 9.2)
Virtual EARs, Graphical Deployment Descriptor editor
Oracle Database support – object browser, DDL gen
Apache XMLBeans & EJBGen
JSF Facelets (preview)
Other Oracle Eclipse initiatives
Dali project for JPA plugin
JSF Tools
BPEL tools
And …

TopLink 11g
Based on EclipseLink 1.0.1
support for JPA (Object Relational), MOXy (Object XML – JAXB 2.0), and SDO (Service Data Object)
Oracle (11g) special feature support
Proxy Authentication, VPD, Database Object Types, PL/SQL
WebLogic 10.3 CMP and BMP implementation
As well OAS, WebSphere and JBoss
TopLink Grid (Coherence Integration)
JPA against Grid, including JPQL queries
Grid does write-behind to database

JDeveloper – Oracle’s strategic IDE
XML
Web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)
Database
UML
Java
J(2)EE
TopLink/EclipseLink
ADF
With FMW 11gR1
SOA
WebCenter
Oracle Data Integrator
Application Life Cycle Management
BPM?
CEP?

Application Development Framework
JDeveloper 11g/ADF 11g production
Beginning October 2008 (around now)
Browser Support: FF2, FF3, IE 7, Safari 3
Chrome and IE 8 being tested
Best performance on Safari, FF3 comes second
WebLogic 10.3 integrated Application Server
Themes for ADF 11g
…

Dogfood

Requirements JDeveloper 11g/ADF 11g
Requirements from internal development teams
Easier entry, less steep learning curve
Higher productivity (for 8000+ not all J(2)EE hot shot developers – many with 4GL/Forms background)
Maintainability for enterprise level applications
Team Collaboration
Rich, Web 2.0 User Experience
Customizable per industry and organization
Enterprise 2.0 (Collaboration) and SOA integration
Compliant with industry standards such as J(2)EE

JDeveloper 11g/ADF 11g
(even more) Declarative (4GL style) development
Lot of functionality can be Model driven: Complex Search Forms, List of Values, Validations, (default) UI properties
95% no-code development
Visual Editor, Wizard and Property palette driven
High level of reusability
Page templates, Declarative Components, Task Flows & Regions, ADF Libraries, Model based specifications
MDS (Meta Data Store) for design-time and run-time customization
Skinning for tailor made look & feel

ADF Faces RichClient

Rich Clients though not necessarily only for Rich Customers
JDeveloper 11g (design time) is free
ADF Rich Faces will be donated to Apache MyFaces Trinidad
ADF Controller (task flows, templates,…) is probably also to be donated to Trinidad
Oracle considers removing the run-time ADF license altogether

JDeveloper 11g – the ‘Bulldog’ release
Aligned with Fusion Middleware 11gR1 (H1CY2009)
Application Lifecycle Management
Tasks
Chat
Compare
Branch
Resolve
Much better SVN integration
And other integrations as well

JDeveloper 11g – the ‘Bulldog’ release
SOA Suite, ODI and WebCenter Design Time
Included again:
MDS (Meta Data Services)
Active Data Source
Hierarchy Viewer
ADF Desktop Integration
ADF Mobile
Essbase Data Control (Hyperion)
ADF to APEX Migrator

ADF di

ADF di Architecture

ADF di

ADF di – Excel ADF Design Time

Rich, integrated, synchronized

Rendering to different clients

ADF Community
Methodology
Sharing of experience
Close with product management
Best practices from 8000+ Oracle internal ADF developers
Vehicles: Oracle Wiki, Google Groups (discussion), Conference meetings
Over 100 members

JHeadstart 11g
Integrated with JDeveloper 11g and with support for ADF 11g (leverage popup, task flow, Rich Faces,…)
Themes: rapid prototyping, best practices, even more declarative than ADF itself, implement UI patterns
New:
Utilities – e.g. Create Read Only LOV ViewObjects based on ViewLinks, Verify use of Naming Conventions
Forms2ADF Generator – jumpstart ADF modernization …
Create Business Components from Blocks, Record Groups & Items
Create JHeadstart Groups, Regions & Items from Canvases, Blocks & Items in Form
Manual tracking of PL/SQL (triggers and program units)
Around 1 st December

Quiz Question
Which Oracle product
Installs by default on MS Access & MS SQL Server
Has a Visual Basic client
Does only run on JBoss J2EE Application Server?
Has been acquired by Oracle in the last 3 months
Has to replace a 1.6M licensed HP product in use by Oracle’s product development
Is part of Oracle Enterprise Manager
Is largely developed in India and China, managed from Massachusetts
Competes with IBM, Borland, HP Mercury
Does not yet support Oracle Forms (early 2009)
However does support APEX and ADF

Application Testing Suite
Functional Testing
Compare to Selenium, Rational Functional Tester, HttpUnit, …
For HTML, Applet & WebService
Load Testing
Compare JMeter
Test Management
Akin to Mercury Test Director (Quality Center) or IBM Rational TestManager
Manage requirements, test cases, findings
Reports & Dashboard
Integrate with Jira, Bugzilla

Enterprise 2.0 & Collaboration

Oracle’s Port(al)folio
Oracle Portal
Since 1998 (formerly WebDB)
Oracle WebCenter
Brand new product since 2007
Oracle Universal Content Management
Stellent acquisition
Oracle WebLogic Portal
BEA acquisition
Oracle WebCenter Interaction
BEA acquisition (BEA Aqualogic formerly Plumtree)

Enterprise 2.0 Roadmap

Oracle WebCenter 11g
Part of Fusion Middleware 11g
R1: H1C2009
WebCenter products
WebCenter Services
WebCenter Spaces
WebCenter Interaction
WebCenter Ensemble
WebCenter is Enterprise 2.0 foundation for Fusion Apps
UI Services such as Workflow, Content & Search Integration, Collaboration, Presence Fusion Dashboards

WebCenter Services

WebCenter Spaces with WC Services

WebCenter Ensemble for Mash Ups

Use cases for Ensemble
For consuming light weight (RSS/REST/HTML/XML) http based services and exposing them as UI Service
As a complement to your portal or other “container”
As a client of your data services product
In WebCenter, as an access point to new E2.0 services such as discussions, wikis, and so on

Looking Ahead: Activity Graph

Leveraging Activity Graph

Oracle Beehive
Enterprise 2.0
Collaboration in the workplace
Successor to Collaboration Suite
And Oracle InterOffice & Oracle Office
$160 per user/year
Why success this time?
Outlook Plugin!

Shared and Personal Workspaces

On top of existing clients&infrastructure

Beehive Architecture

It’s a Wrap!

Key themes
DBA 2.0 – manageability out of the box
Advisors vs Deciders, The ‘infite database’, ASM, Data Guard
Enterprise 2.0 & Collaboration
Content Management
ED-SOA – Events & Services
Governance – Promote Reuse, Manage full lifecycle
Business Intelligence – operational, embedded, predictive
SaaS & The Cloud – on demand Software, Storage & Computing power
The Grid – Availability, Scalability, Performance

Short term…
(start to) Adopt for WebLogic
Start to say goodbye to OAS/OC4J
Take a close(r) look at Enterprise Manager
Oracle is piling so much functionality in EM: SOA Management, Real User Insight, Application Testing Suite
Use AIA (Application Integration Architecture) for tying together Oracle Applications (& Legacy)
Prepare the migration strategy for Forms developers
To the next enterprise application technology
If you do ADF: start/continue investigating ADF 11g
focus on Declarative Model settings, Task Flows, Rich Client Components and Data Visualization Tags

Time for a drink…

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