Endangered Peregrine Falcons Return to Oracle HQ

Peregrine falcons have returned to Oracle's campus in Redwood Shores, California. You can watch the newborns on the Oracle Falconcam. Read more and watch videos on Oracle's Site.

Oracle Development Kit for Spring

To help you better understand the support Oracle offers to Spring developers, everything you need to get started with Spring on Oracle Containers for Java EE is now available in the Oracle Development Kit for Spring. Whether you're new to Spring or an old hand, you're sure to benefit from the contents of the Development Kit:

• A comprehensive set of How-To examples illustrating Spring-OC4J integration
• The Oracle Developer Depot Web application, which enables you to deploy and run the How-To projects on OC4J
• A Spring extension to JDeveloper, Oracle's free Java IDE
• Supporting documentation and white papers

The Kit is available as a self-extracting ZIP archive. Note that you will need Oracle Containers for Java EE (10.1.3.2) or higher to use all of the How-To projects provided.

OracleAS & JDeveloper: JavaEE 5.0 Technology Preview

During JavaOne last week Oracle has announced the availability of a the new JavaEE 5.0 Technology Preview of Oracle Containers for JavaEE and JDeveloper (release 11). Find more information on OTN:

• OC4J 11: Java EE 5 Technology Preview
• JDeveloper 11 Technology preview includes a Mac release