A Groovier ADF with Oracle ADF 11

Steve Muench has published in Oracle Magazine an article about the use of Groovy in Oracle ADF. In this article you learn how you can do validation and calculation in you business service layer.

• Enhanced Calculation and Validation
• Oracle ADF

Oracle Industrial Telnet Server (ITS): The OracleAS Hidden Treasure..

When I was working in Oracle Consulting I was surprised to see how many customers are using character mode applications, base on Oracle Forms. Lot of applications in wharehouses, harbour, ... are using telnet terminal, usually remote/mobile using RF networks.

Moving to Java on the server was very hard for them because of the lack of support for easy character mode development based solutions.

OracleAS 10g/ADFprovides such support with the Industrial Telnet Server (ITS). ITS is the telnet server running in a J2EE container as a J2CA adaptor, and uses JavaServer Faces to render the user interface. The advantage of using JSF for the UI, it allows developer to leverage automatically different renderers (HTML, Mobile and telnet) without changing the application.

Here an example of the different renderer provided by Oracle ADF Faces (Instant Messaging, PDA, HTML and Telnet)

If you are looking for more information around Oracle ITS:

• Oralce ADF Mobile
• How To Install, Configure, and Manage the Industrial Telnet Server
• How To Install the Industrial Telnet Server on Third-Party Containers
• Demonstration: Using JDeveloper to create Telnet Applications(flash)

J2EE application development for Forms and Designer developers

Back in France, and in Oracle consulting, I was very often called to present, introduce J2EE to Oracle Forms developers, since we all know that J2EE is the way to go! Sue Harper and Grant Ronald have made this task easier by creating a specific OTN page for Oracle Forms and Designer Developers that are moving to J2EE. This is also a subject that will be often discussed in the J2EE SIG that the different Oracle user groups ODTUG, IOUG,OAUG and Oracle have created. I am sure that will be a very succesful subject during the next ODTUG (Oracle Developer Tools User Group) Conference mid june in New Orleans. During this event I am presenting 3 papers: * J2EE 1.4 Overview * Oracle Application Server 10g: Best Application Server for the Oracle Database * J2EE Persistence Using OracleAS TopLink ( will probably let our guru Doug Clarke doing it if he is coming...) It is still time to register for this event, take a look to the agenda, this year will be a very good one !