JavaOne2008 - Oracle General Session

NOTE: As with all my JavaOne 2008 posts, the below are more of notes I tried to capture when attending sessions and if there is something to be added or corrected please feel free.

Using JBuilder display how to create Graphs using exposed services. The bar chart exposes data from the DB. As data changes the graphs get updated. Using excel sheet data is updated into DB and the graph gets updated. The person doing the Demo along with Thomas Kurien is Duncan - a sales executive.

The same GUI is showed on Apple iPhone although it does not show it working on iPhone.

Sales person doing a demo for Oracle contrasts so much to Sun where the Engg manager did the demo yesterday for JavaFX. To me it indicates the importance the two technology companies assign to corresponding divitions - Sun is very Engineering oriented while Oracle is very Sales / revenue oriented.

Enterprise 2.0: by Peter M
An unfulfilled order is highlighted and how to identify why? Identify the order and seamlessly behind a search is executed to identify details on current status and whom to connect. Further details on the hierarchy of people involved and responsible is displayed. All web 2.0 interfaces.

Business Process Orchestration: Kevin
SCA: adapt SCA for composing services
BPEL: orchestration
Human Workflow:
Event processing and Activity Monitoring:
SOA Governance:
The above order undergoes an end-2-end view on its processing. A step by step how the order is processed. New enhancement is the Rules engine for Biz people to enter rules.

There seem to be some functionality that Kevin was trying to show and to me looked to be not working but this would have been unnoticed by most of the folks who are not familiar with such editors given that Kurien continued to engage the audience and Kevin with questions. One again very sales and marketing oriented compared to Sun which believes more in Engineering and tries to show the product as it is.


Managing Hetrogenous system with SOA Order Entry (WebLogic Operation Control - Virtual Edition), Pricing Engine (that calculates the price based on existing stock, orders etc.), Cluster of Oracle Applications and finally a Store Front 0 WebLogic Server.
- Shows how when no of orders coming in are very large, the GUI shows the throughput falling and order delivery getting delayed and an alert stating the no of orders coming in is larger than the capacity.
A demo on JRockit and how it displays all the threads and perf matrix using dashboard widgets etc..
The integration of WebLogic is more of a message that Oracle is sending about its seriousness in getting all WL functionality on board to Oracle's product suite.

All are avalable for download @
Oracle Developer network:
Oracle Fusion preview 4
Eclipse pack
Also IronMan movie ticket free at Oracle booth.