Free vouchers if you couldn't make it to OOW

Oracle OpenWorld 2011 is over – what was important what did you miss?

Exalogic the WebLogic machine fully supports oracle VM, coherence and virtual assembly builder

DSS demo memo #239: upgraded DSS apps grid: coherence 11g demos now available!

Oracle forms and reports new release!

Apply now! Oracle application development framework specialization

News from our partners and community

Updated Oracle Material

For all WebLogic experts we are offering free vouchers worth $195 value for the Oracle Application Grid Certified Implementation Specialist assessment! To demonstrate your WebLogic expertise you have to take a free online assessment exam for Oracle Application Grid PreSales Specialist. For free vouchers please send an e-mail with the screenshot of your Oracle Application Grid PreSales certirficate to brigitte.felisaz@oracle.com including your Name, Company, E-mail and Country with the e-mail subject free WebLogic voucher! *(offer is limited to partners from Europe Middle East and Africa. Partners from other countries can contact their Oracle partner manager).

Exam Details: Oracle Application Grid 11g Essentials Exam is now available in production
Take this exam to become an Oracle Application Grid Implementation Specialist!

The Exam duration was increased from 90 minutes to 120 minutes to give students more time to pick the correct answers!

Exam 1Z0-523 covers topics such as:

• Oracle Fusion Middleware Concepts
• Jrockit
• WebLogic Server
• Coherence
• Enterprise Manager controls

Duration: 120 minutes
Number of Questions: 60 questions
Passing Score: 63%
Exam Price: US$ 195

Register online or schedule by phone to take the exam at a Pearson VUE testing center near to you.

You can find more information related to this exam at Oracle Application Grid 11g Essentials – Exam Study Guide!

Back to top

Keynotes: Best of Oracle OpenWorld keynotes and general session is available on-demand. We recommend you to watch the following:

Oracle Cloud Computing	Middleware General Session	Extreme Innovation
Larry Ellison, CEO, Oracle Watch full-length keynote	Hasan Rizvi, SVP, Oracle Watch full-length general session	Mark Hurd, President, Oracle Thomas Kurian, Executive President, Product Development, Oracle Watch full-length keynote

Presentations: All presentations are available online at the OpenWorld Content Catalog

Product highlight- the launch of Oracle Public Cloud offering Oracle Java Cloud Service to deploy Easy Built on top of the enterprise-grade and proven WebLogic Server using Java EE standards and frameworks like Oracle ADF.

Read more on Community Events and post your comment here

Back to top

DSS is pleased to announce the availability of the latest release of Apps Grid: Coherence 11g Demos. The demos showcase clustering, load balancing, failover and active-active multi-master WAN capabilities of the Coherence Cache Server as well as an introduction to the Coherence Query Language, CohQL.

About Coherence
Coherence provides replicated and distributed (partitioned) data management and caching services on top of a reliable, highly scalable peer-to-peer clustering protocol. Coherence has no single points of failure; it automatically and transparently fails over and redistributes its clustered data management services when a server becomes inoperative or is disconnected from the network. When a new server is added, or when a failed server is restarted, it automatically joins the cluster and Coherence fails back services to it, transparently redistributing the cluster load. Coherence includes network-level fault tolerance features and transparent soft re-start capability to enable servers to self-heal.

Coherence Scalability and Failover:

• Scalability: In this demo, a second node joins an existing Coherence cache server that is already performing aggregation calculations on 100,000 records. The second node joins the cluster with no code required and after a short period of time, number of calculations p/s double, and query response time halves.
• Failover: If a cache server is killed, aggregation calculations continue without error, and prior performance resumes after a short rebalancing period.

Coherence Multi-Master WAN:

• Multi-Master WAN: This demo provides an example application, which represents a distributed auction application where near real-time applications concurrently read and raise bids on a finite set of items for sale. The Auction application showcases the power of using Coherence clusters and push replication functionality. With just a few hundred lines of application code a distributed active-active application can be written with simple Coherence NamedCache primitives. This demo also shows how a single application can use caches with different replication policies to solve various problems.
  
  

Coherence Cluster and Query:

Clustered Cache: In this demo, the clustered cache capabilities are demonstrated, including
creating a named cache, adding items into the cache, transparent failover and fail back.

• Coherence Query Language (CohQL): Continuing with the cache created in the first part of the demo, cache items are queried and modified using CohQL.

Software

The Apps Grid: Coherence 11g Demos systems are equipped with the following versions of Software

• Coherence 3.6
• JRockit JDK 1.6.0_22
• WebLogic WebTier (OHS) 11.1.1.4
• RAC Database 11.2.0.1.0

Demo Instructions Go to the DSS web site for Oracle Sales Consultants or Oracle Partners. The DSS Apps Grid: Coherence demos can be found in the Fusion Middleware - General section. Each demo launch pad includes a demo script with detailed instructions.

Need access to DSS? If you are an Oracle Sales Consultant or a Partner needing access to DSS Technology demos, please contact DSS support.
Scheduling Demos on DSS We encourage you to schedule customer demos ahead of time. Please check out following viewlets. Future Registration & Instant Demo

If you need any help in scheduling a demo, please contact DSS Support.

Feedback/Suggestions DSS encourages you to provide us feedback to improve the demo content/offering. Please contact DSS Support or Anand Prasad (anand.prasad@oracle.com)

Support If you need assistance or encounter any issues with the demos please submit a DSS Repository ticket or call the DSS Support Hotline for assistance.

The DSS Support Hotline is available 24 hours a day, Monday through Friday, at: Americas: +1 650 506 8763 & EMEA: +44 118 9240808 & APAC: +65 6436 2150

Back to top

Did you hear about Oracle Forms and Reports New Releases? Yes, It is one of the important announcement from OOW. I am pleased to inform you that Oracle Forms and Oracle Reports 11g Release 2 has been published on OTN.

Forms and Reports 11gR2 is based on WebLogic Server 11gR1 (10.3.5) and the underlying Fusion Middleware 11gR2 (11.1.1.5.0) tech stack.

There is a new features document outlining the new features in this release. The main points being integration with Oracle Access Manager, a reduced installation footprint and some new builder features as well. You can get full details from the Forms page on OTN.

Back to top

Partners can now apply for Oracle Application Development Framework Specialization. The Specialize tab on the Developer Tools Knowledge Zone is currently active. Please check the Business and Competency Criteria to find out what are the requirements in order to become an Oracle Application Development Framework Specialist.

Apply now - on the Specialize tab on the Developer Tools Knowledge Zone.

Oracle Application Development Framework

Oracle Application Development Framework is an end-to-end development framework, built on top of the Enterprise Java platform, offering unparalleled productivity to application developers. The framework provides integrated infrastructure solutions for the various layers of the application and an easy way to develop on top of them. Oracle ADF are available as part of Oracle Application Server and WebLogic Server, or independently for use with other Java EE-compliant application servers.

Step 1: Join OPN
Step 2: Join Knowledge Zone
Step 3: Check Business and Competency Criteria
Step 4: Track Competency Status
Step 5: Apply Now Application approval pending verification of passed exams.


Now available!

• Oracle Application Development Framework 11g Sales Specialist Assessment Test
• Oracle Application Development Framework 11g PreSales Specialist Assessment Test
• Oracle Application Development Framework 11g Essentials Exam (1Z0-554)
• Oracle Application Development Framework Support Specialist

For free vouchers please send an e-mail with the screenshot of your Oracle Application Development Framework 11g PreSales Specialist certificate to brigitte.felisaz@oracle.com including your Name, Company, E-mail and Country with the e-mail subject free ADF voucher! *(offer is limited to partners from Europe Middle East and Africa. Partners from other countries, please contact your Oracle partner manager.)

Back to top

Send your tweets @soacommunity #soacommunity and follow us at http://twitter.com/soacommunity

	glassfishGlassFish Podcast Series – Community Stories from JavaOne : http://blogs.oracle.com/theaquarium/entry/glassfish_podcast_series_community_stories
	OracleBlogs ADF and JDeveloper at OOW – The Summary http://ow.ly/1f4DSU
	glassfish Stories: http://Parleys.com: Feedback from GlassFish Community Event at JavaOne 2011 http://bit.ly/nGdGN6
	OTNArchBeat JavaOne 2011 Afterglow – Blogosphere coverage (The Aquarium) http://ow.ly/6SN0B
	OracleBlogs Java Community Keynote: Enabling Collaboration, Enabling Innovation http://ow.ly/1fbtD0
	java Interviews with Java Community members #javaone11 http://bcove.me/1byvu781
	brunofsantunes #javaone11 #javafx: JavaFX Architecture and Programming Model: Nice Presentation : http://goo.gl/z3QTO
	glassfish GlassFish Podcast – Episode #077 – Java EE 7 Technical Keynote from JavaOne 2011 SF : http://blogs.oracle.com/glassfishpodcast/entry/episode_077_java_ee_7
	enterprisejava #javaone11 #javaee: Rethinking Best Practices with Java EE 6: nice presentation: http://goo.gl/3V4Ng. /via @bru… http://bit.ly/qAeUra
	stenvesterli Leaked: Oracle WebLogic Server 12g (or is it 12c?) http://www.javacodegeeks.com/
	OracleWebLogic #OracleCoherence Web with Push Replication to Multiple Sites.
	oracleopenworld Missed a session last week @ #OOW11? Want the slides from a session you attended? Download session PDFs @ http://bit.ly/madQ1n
	OracleWebLogic #WebLogic Active GridLink for RAC Demo with feature summary. http://ow.ly/6Pyp6
	andrejusb Andrejus Baranovskis’s Blog: Oracle Open World 2011 Slides – Texas A&M Universi… http://andrejusb.blogspot.com/2011/10/oracle-open-world-2011-slides-texas.html?spref=tw
	oracle_em Total Cloud Control with Oracle Enterprise Manager 12c – Video Podcast with Sushil Kumar, VP Products http://bit.ly/r1CunK #em12c #OOW11
	OTNArchBeat JavaOne 2011 Slides, Demos, Replays, Hands-on Lab Instructions | Arun Gupta http://ow.ly/6Uc9A
	wlscommunity Mike Lehmann #WebLogicCommunity Partner Advisory workshop – are you a member? http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea http://yfrog.com/nwpy7yhj
	OracleMiddle Wondering what you missed at #Oracle OpenWorld 2011? Check out our recap http://bitly.com/qgTtzE #OOW
	AdamBien A brief JavaOne11 summary: The Thrill (and Thunder) is back. and the technical sessions are great!
	java Oracle Announcements at #JavaOne11 http://bit.ly/ohyei3
	lucasjellema Glassfish & Java EE strategy and roadmap presentation can be found here

The become a member in the WebLogic Partner Community please first login at http://partner.oracle.com and then visit: http://www.oracle.com/partners/goto/wls-emea

Read more on Community Events and post your comment here

Back to top

• Oracle WebLogic Server YouTube Channel Three dozen videos and counting from members of the Oracle WebLogic Server product team. No cute kitties. No stupid human tricks. Just practical, useful information about getting things done with WebLogic. See for yourself.
• White Paper: Leveraging Oracle Coherence for Distributed Execution of High Volume Transactions
• Paul Cleary's white paper examines how Oracle Insurance Policy Administration for Life and Annuity (OIPA) leverages the powerful capabilities of Oracle Coherence in-memory data grid middleware. Read it.
• Oracle Java ADF Modernizing and Development – A Case Study taken from Real Projects–Webinar with Grant Ronald & PITSS on November 29th 2011
  

Back to top

Please check your local OPN Training Calendar for additional training and locations here.

Back to top

Please feel free to invite your colleagues to join the WebLogic Community and to participate in the WebLogic Assessment tests. For registration please login the Oracle PartnerNetworkand go to: www.oracle.com/goto/emea/soa

For any questions on the above or concerning WebLogic and Oracle in general please contact the Oracle EMEA Alliances & Channels WebLogic Team.

Best regards
Oracle EMEA WebLogic Team
Jürgen Kress