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So, I think Dreamhost, or possibly WordPress, or maybe CFormsII, has done something that made my contact form stop sending me email. Problem is, I’m not sure *when* this happened; I have, at least, some hits on the contact form that didn’t result in my receiving any emails, although I also have some (much older) emails that did come through the contact form.

So:

1. Best not to use the contact form for now. If you want to contact me, and you don’t want to do it via a comment, email me directly (see below).
2. If you’ve already used the contact form to contact me, and you haven’t received a reply, I’m really, really sorry–I think your email got lost in the void. If it’s not wildly inconvenient, please resend, again by emailing me directly (see below).

My email address:  My first name <at> avromroyfaderman <dot> com. Again, my apologies.

The end of the year is a hectic time for most people, and I’m no exception. I’m not going to be able to get a post up this coming Monday, and I’ve realized that I’d only be kidding myself if I believed it wouldn’t happen again between now and the new year.

So I’ve taken down the “Updates Mondays” promise, effective through the end of December. It’s not that the blog is going on hiatus for that time; I’ll still try to get something up whenever I can. It’s just that until the new year, “Updates Mondays” is changing to “Updates When I Get the Chance.” I’ll be back on the regular, almost-every-week schedule after that.

I’ve posted what is now very nearly an exact copy of my Extreme Reusability series (Part I, Part II) to the ADF Methodology section of the Oracle Wiki here. Why am I putting two separate copies up on the web?

Well, I’m going to use the copy on my blog as a version of Extreme Reusability that I have control over. I’m sure my understanding of the methodology will evolve over time, and I’ll continue to post updates as it does; I also hope that you all will continue to post comments on it here. The version on the Wiki, however, is, more or less, a donated snapshot to the community. All I particularly ask is that people maintain the links I’ve put in it to the two blog posts where I first laid the methodology out. Other than that, the content is fair game for anyone who has ideas, responses, etc.

I’m sick, so no actual substantive post this week–this’ll be it until next Monday.

We had some great discussions at the Oracle ADF Methodology Unconference yesterday. We talked about adoption decisions (particularly about the whole ADF vs. APEX thing), testing methodologies, integrating ADF applications with reporting tools, and coding standards (interesting tip from Oracle’s Duncan Mills and Lynn Munsinger about this one: don’t get over-exuberant with your package structuring up front. Apps did at one point, and while it worked fine on Linux, porting it over to Windows caused it to break: the names of some of the files (which include whole package trees in them) exceeded Windows’ acceptable length limit. I believe the upshots of all the discussions are in (or will soon be in) the process of wikification.

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Ted Farrell announced this morning that there is a release date for the production version of Oracle 11g: October 1st. The realease won’t have *all* the functionality present in the previews–in particular, WebCenter and full SOA support won’t be present; there’ll be another release at some later date that includes this functionality.

Alas, the most exciting thing I’ve seen so far (even more exciting than this) is something I’m not allowed to talk about in detail. However, I don’t think anyone will get too mad at me if I say this: When SOA Suite 11g is released (I don’t know when exactly, and can’t say when even generally), if it looks anything like the current plans, it’s going to be phenomenal. It’s going to seriously mitigate the disadvantages of SOA, and make it a much more attractive option to a much wider range of development teams. I’m not saying that it will mean everyone should rush to SOA–if you’re part of a, say, two-person development team working exclusively on Java EE apps, I’m still unconvinced it will be worth it for you–but mid-size (as opposed to just huge) development teams, even those that don’t have any of the indications for SOA that I list, will be able to (indeed, well-advised to) seriously consider SOA as an architectural option.

More news as I get it.

October 5th, 2008: So, obviously, the October 1st date did not materialize, and we currently have no date for the initial (AKA “Boxer”) release of JDeveloper 11g except for “really soon.” Ah well.

October 7th, 2008: Woohoo!