Oracle open world 2014 summary

Oracle open world 2014 went few days back.It held in 28 September to 3rd October 2014. OpenWorld 2014 was dominated by jet lag. Apart from jet lag, main focus on this OOW is cloud. Every one talking about the cloud.Talking about updates from OOW.I will more focus on OOW on ADF/webcenter side.

First day (Sunday) – Day started with Larry Ellison key not.The following important updated for each day

Day for ADF EMG
– Alexi Lopes on ADF essential tips and tricks.
– Advance ADF binding by Sten Vesteri
– Create Stunning UI with Oracle ADF faces and SASS by Amr Gawish (I liked this session)
– Real-World Oracle ADF Performance Tuning
– In the evening , I attended Oracle ACE dinner with several ACEs and ACE director.It was really amazing to meeting some awesome people.

Second day (Monday) –
– Developing Applications with the Core Oracle ADF Stack by Peter Koletzke.
– Using Oracle Cloud to Power Your Application Development Lifecycle
– Scalability and High-Availability Offerings in Oracle ADF by Jobinesh Purushothaman
– Visited booths of various companies in exhibition hall.
– ADF EMG developer meeting .Met with many ADF developer.Enjoyed..

Third day (Tuesday)
– Oracle WebCenter Sites Strategy and Vision
– Delivering Oracle ADF Projects: Modern Techniques
– Oracle ADF Enterprise Architects Birds-of-a-Feather Meeting by Frank and Chris

Fourth day (Wednesday)
– Modern UI Design: Implementing Oracle’s Best Practices in Your Applications
– The Picture That Paints a Thousand Words: Data Visualization on Web and Mobile
– Guide to Team Development in the Cloud with Oracle Developer Cloud Service
– Oracle ADF Development and Deployment to Oracle Cloud by Andrejus Baranovskis
– Programming Steps in Oracle ADF: Beyond Drag and Drop By Grant Roland

– In the evening Oracle launch Oracle Appreciation event in treasure Island.Its a great party. Aerosmith had performed. Below are few clicks

Fifth day (last)
– Oracle ADF Business Components REST Services with Oracle Mobile Application Framework
– Provisioning Oracle Fusion Middleware Environments with Chef and Puppet by Edwin Biemond
– A Hybrid of Responsive and Adaptive Designin webcenter portal
– Bootcamp on Developing Web and Mobile Dashboards with Oracle ADF by Frank

Its an great event to meet oracle champs in ADF/webcenter/SOA.As usual, it was fun to catch up with the members of my Oracle developer community, my ODTUG buddies and fellow ACEs. Cloud was definitely the hot topic on everyone’s mind this year, especially because Oracle announced their upcoming Oracle Mobile Cloud Services and released their Oracle Developer Cloud Service to production a few weeks before the conference.

The most interesting topic for me was the upcoming Oracle Mobile Cloud Service. This solution includes everything a development team will need to build mobile backends from any datasource or enterprise system. The Mobile Cloud Service can insulate Mobile Developers from complex infrastructure while allowing them to focus on creating killer apps. Oracle Mobile Cloud Service provides built-ins for push notifications, object storage, user management, analytics and an API designer and catalog.

Another cool thing released by Oracle was the Atla UI. These are a set of pre-built design patterns for building modern applications for multiple channels with a focus on user experience not only user interface. With mobile becoming everyone’s primary way of accessing information users are beginning to demand better user interfaces. In response to this, Oracle developed Alta UI to allow developers to create simple and modern UIs across web-based and mobile applications. Alta UI includes a new skin and samples to demonstrate how to make UIs like the ones Oracle has created for their own modern cloud based interfaces. You can see an example of the Oracle Atla UI style in this demo of Forms running on from an Oracle Mobile Framework with Alta UI Style:

Even with all this cool technology, I think the highlight for me had to be the ADF EMG / MAF / Oracle Forms developers meet-up on Tuesday night sponsored by ODTUG.There were attendees from all over the world and it was amazing to see many new faces .

I’d like to give big THANK YOU to the Oracle ACE program for ACE dinner.I hope everyone enjoyed as much I did.Hopefully I can attend next year too.

Overall

ADF- New version can come mid of next year with some more amazing features. This year they launch new Alta UI.Saw demo with product team.Look really good.
Webcenter Portal – Real support for Webcenter content folders. No big update as , I was expecting.New version can expect next year with more responsiveness in Webcenter portal with really amazing new features.
Webcenter content– Oracle Documents Cloud Service is the future.

Cheers
Vinay

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