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This is an (obviously) late post in a series of posts about ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009. Monday was the least busy day for me at Kaleidoscope–I only attended two presentations, “That’s Rich! Putting a smile on ADF Faces,” by Lucas Jellema, and “Fusion Design Fundamentals,” by Duncan Mills. But it was perhaps the most thought-provoking of my days there. In fact, I have a full three posts worth of stuff to say about just these two talks. Today, I’m going to talk about a dramatic contrast: the two talks, among other things, represented opposite ends of a debate I consider quite important: the advisability, or lack thereof, of using ADF Faces RC client-side components.

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Just wanted to let everyone know that the Sundown Session with Oracle Ace Directors on Middleware and SOA at ODTUG Kaleidoscope is going to include many of the founding members of the ADF Enterprise Methodology Group (formerly known as the ADF Methodology Group), and that I believe one of the big planned topics of discussion is, in fact, ADF enterprise methodology. Methodology and design are obviously special interests of mine, but I think even if I were unbiased I would wholeheartedly recommend being a part of, or at least listening in on, this conversation.

In other news, next week won’t  quite follow a standard schedule. Instead of a big post on Monday, I’ll be blogging about highlights from the conference most days of the week.

In other other news, ODTUG has finally convinced me to create a Twitter account! This is kind of experimental, so I’m not making promises for the long term. But for now (and at least through next week), you can see my most recent posts at the bottom of the sidebar, and you can follow me on Twitter. You can also listen in to any Twitter twitter related to my Extreme Reusability session (#odtug S95), my Package-Based ADF session (#odtug S96), and the Guide to Fusion Development session co-presented by Duncan Mills (#odtug S310), me (#odtug S632), and Peter Koletzke (#odtug S633).

So, I submitted a presentation, “The Rich Get Richer: Ultimate RIA with Oracle ADF Faces RC Client-Side Objects” to Oracle OpenWorld 2009, in San Francisco this October. The presentation is about performing tasks that usually require a partial round-trip, such as cascading dropdowns, conditionally visible content, etc., with no server round-trip at all. I talk a bit about this, on a very theoretical level, here (in the section, “Consider a Javascript-Only Solution,”) but I plan to go into considerably more detail, giving practical examples and advice, in the presentation.

The presentation did not make the cut of abstracts selected by Oracle. But if you want to see it at OOW, there’s still a chance! Just vote for the presentation on Oracle Mix (you’ll need to create an Oracle Mix account if you don’t already have one, but it’s free and a good way to meet people in the ADF community).

See you at ODTUG and/or OOW!

Like the poltergeists, I’m baaack. I’m back to my usual health, and while I’m still pretty horribly snowed under, I think that enough of the worst of it is over that I can generally commit to my “Updates Mondays” schedule again. This has been a *long* hiatus (over 6 motnths), and I’m very glad to be back among the lang of the living. I’ve missed this blog and the ADF community generally.

Although I plan to get back to the ADF BC Tuning series soon, I want to use this post to announce two things: The first piece of software I’m releasing on this site and my public (that is, not just as an audience member) at ODTUG Kaleidoscope, which will be next week in Monterey, CA.

First, the software. This is actually related to one of the talks I’ll be giving at ODTUG, and tangentially related to another. But even if you aren’t going to the conference, I hope you’ll find it useful. It’s an extension of the ADF BC framework that allows you to create the following 100% declaratively:

• Entity object definitions (including support for optimistic or pessimistic locking and Refresh After… settings) that use Package APIs instead of DML
• View object definitions (whether entity-based or not, and including support for query parameters) that use Package APIs instead of SELECT statements
• Associations and view link definitions involving the above

You can get the framework here.

At ODTUG, I’ll  be participating in the following:

• Tuesday, 10:30-12:00,  in Regency Ballroom I: I’ll be delivering the paper, “Package-Based ADF.”
• Tuesday, 2:45-3:45, in Grove: I’ll be delivering the paper, “Extreme Reusability for Oracle JDeveloper and ADF.”
• Tuesday, 5:15-1:15, in Windjammer II, III & IV: I’ll be participating in the Sundown Session- Middleware and SOA.
• Wednesday, 1:30-5:15, in Cyprus III: I’ll be on a panel, “A Guide to Fusion Web Development with JDeveloper 11g,” with Peter Koletzke and Duncan Mills.

Hope to see you there!

Hi all,

This blog has been on much longer hiatus than I was hoping, and alas the hiatus will likely be continuing for a while. I’ve been massively oversubscribed at work, and now I’m fighting an illness, and something has had to give, and I’m afraid it’s been my blogging. Rest assured, though, this blog is not abandoned–I’ll be back to the usual weekly schedule just as soon as I can.

In other news, ODTUG has just extended the discounted “early-bird registration” deadline for ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 to April 7th. It should be a great conference this year: Lots of interesting Java and ADF sessions, “Sundown Sessions” with Oracle ACEs, another installment of the ADF Methodology workshop, and, for when you’re off the clock, proximity to one of the two best public aquaria in the U.S. (the only thing that gives the Monterey Bay Aquarium a run for its money is the Boston Aquarium).

Full disclosure: I’m giving two talks myself at Kaleidoscope–one on Extreme Reusability, and one on business components and database package APIs. Both are in some part based on things I’ve posted in this blog, but both will have a few additional tricks and techniques to them.

If any of this interests you, head on over to the ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 Registration Page.