Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g conference

The launch of oracle fusion middleware 11G was held on july 2nd 2009 in Hilton London Paddington.

Keynote :
Charles Philips, President, Oralce
Thomas Kurian, Senior vice president, Oracle Development.
The main components discussed were
- Oracle SOA suite 11G
- Oracle WebCenter suite 11G
- Oracle WebLogic Suite 11G
- Oracle Identity management
- Oracle Fusion middleware for various sectors.

The conference was exciting and there were no much marketing. My expectation was that as it always been the morning session normally have a lot of marketing than substance but in this occasion it was all about the product.

Some of eye catching stuff that I have come accross are:

Weblogic server --> this has brought a lot of question to my mind. Are those who are on Application server 10 will be able to upgrade with no extra cost.It was vague and will still remain like that until the time come when oracle decides. It seems that oracle have put a lot of money and time on getting this product right. You wouldn't know what the issues will be until you actually use it but from what I have seen it is a wonderful product.

Oracle JRocket real time :

Oracle claims that JRockit Real Time is the industry’s fastest real-time solution for standard Java and the only one with average microsecond response performance. It guarantees a five nines maximum garbage collection latency on the order of one millisecond. JRockit uses deterministic garbage collections . Oracle datasheet also claims that JRocket can help you in predicting latency and extreme performance, zero coding when you swap JVM and advanced monitoring tools.

Oracle WebLogic Real Time is also the version of Oracle JRockit Real Time offered exclusively with Oracle WebLogic Suite. JRockit seems to run on unix like (Liunx) platforms and windows (both 32 and 64 bits)

New Jdeveloper :

Looks very promising. It reminds me of when Microsoft launched .Net framework. Oracle have revamped this products with many added features. To just mention few ability to use any source control, collaboration with your colleagues , assigning tasks, drag and drop capability is highly improved. There are more to it than mentioned her.

SOA suite 11 : it will run on weblogic server 11 and it looks like it is going to stay that way.

Application grid is also mentioned which again could improve application performance.

Last but not least the lunch was fantastic. For those who stayed behind there was also drinks (cool !!!!!!!!!)