The Melbourne conference is over and had a great time. It was great to meet up with some old friends and meet some new ones.  As I have in recent times been doing much more work with Middleware I opted to do a presentation on the first day which went all day with the title of “SOA for DBA’s” presented by Lucas Jellema for Amis in the Netherlands. For anyone who works with Oracle databases and has an interest in working more with SOA I recommend this. If you need to learn a bit of what it is about to help provide better support to the middleware people working with SOA this is a presentation well worth the time. From someone who was  interested I got my moneys worth on this one day of the conference.

After a bit of effort to learn some of the material I will hopefully be able to present some of that to the local Oracle consulting people via the Queensland AUSOUG section.

The next day I was fulfilling my obligation to support the conference by taking up the role of a room monitor for the day. I was provided the opportunity to support Peter Koletzke with his presentation of “A Guide to Fusion Web Development with JDeveloper 11 ” this was another full day session and he provided us with an insight into how far Oracle’s vision of Forms development with Java has come. I enjoyed this presentation as it has further expanded my idea’s of the future of Oracle middleware as a platform. I did not realise how simple it had become to develop applications with 11g. Whilst Java purists might baulk at the idea that I  can create a full working application without writing a line of code, I think it is brilliant. A large part of the application can be done but screen builders, but the stuff I might need a Java expert for would the the sort of stuff any Java expert would want to get there teeth into. This is going to be great for Agile development going forward as in a day I could knock up functioning screens for an application to present to a client for initial review, using the functionality of Jdeveloper 11g as it now stands.

So my summary was is that I had a great conference. I did learn a lot of great new information and will certainly be expanding my skills further into the middleware space as it sure is going to be exciting in the near future as projects come online. It was great to catch up with Connor and Chris and others.

I have a bit of video and some photos to go through to see if there is anything that came out good enough for publishing online of the conference

A patch update came from Jdeveloper 11g came out in the past few days It is probably worth the upgrade as there  is a few glitches in the original release 11g Jdeveloper

See ya round

Peter

Hi All

Pacific DBMS whom I work for, is looking for an additional Oracle DBA for the team.

To submit an application you can contact Pacific DBMS directly. If you need to know anything then you can contact me for information peterdotmclartyatpameacsdotcom. I just realised that I dont have sufficient information displayed on the main site or on the blog

This is only open to DBA’s currently residing in Australia or those that have residency status. For those of you looking for work this is not an entry level position.

Happy job hunting

See you around

Peter