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AT ORACLE: Resources
OTN Community Bulletin
Oracle's free software lineup; Oracle OpenWorld 2005's "most wanted"
Free for All
Since its inception in 1998, Oracle Technology Network (OTN) has made Oracle software available for free to download under a developer license—meaning that the software is free for evaluation and development purposes but not for deployment of production applications. This policy has put Oracle technology into the hands of millions of developers over the years and has almost certainly sparked the creation of thousands of such applications in that time.
Only recently, a new category of free software has emerged as well: products that are completely free of charge for development and deployment purposes, and in one case, even for distribution.
The preeminent examples are Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) and Oracle JDeveloper 10g. The free availability of these products gives Oracle "starters" the flexibility to become familiar not only with Oracle technology (the Oracle Database development and Oracle Fusion Middleware stacks, respectively) without any initial investment, but with broader trends as well—service-oriented architecture (SOA), for example. In the case of Oracle Database XE, these license terms also make the embedding process much more straightforward for ISVs.
You can download Oracle Database XE, Oracle JDeveloper, and other free products from OTN today.
Oracle OpenWorld 2005's
"Most Wanted"
Oracle OpenWorld attendees who visit the OTN Lounge are traditionally treated to a complimentary "Greatest Hits" CD containing the most popular technical articles, technical white papers, how-tos, and other community-supplied content published that year. Now that 2005's conference is sufficiently far behind us, you can download an ISO image to burn your very own "Greatest Hits" CD; just point your browser to download.oracle.com/otn/other/greatest_hits_2005.iso. (OTN membership is required.)
Furthermore, you now have access to presentation materials from the most popular Oracle OpenWorld technical sessions of 2005, including "Optimizing the Optimizer: Essential SQL Tuning Tips and Techniques," Tom Kyte's and Cary Millsap's "10 Things We Like About Oracle Database 10g Release 2," and "PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards, and Oracle E-Business Suite Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware," by Oracle Application Server Chief Strategy Officer Vijay Tella.
Reactions to Oracle Database XE
For measurable reactions to the release of Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), look no further than the rapidly expanding blogger "ecosystem" surrounding Oracle technology.
Within days of the beta release in November 2005, influential members of various technical communities—some of them Oracle employees, but most of them not—had related their personal experiences with the Oracle Database XE install, to great effect.
For example, Harry Fuecks, an influential PHP coder who maintains the phpPatterns blog and SitePoint Web site, related his experience in getting "the equivalent of a 'Hello World' from PHP to Oracle" up in under 1.5 hours. Lewis Cunningham, an Oracle DBA who writes the Expert's Guide to Oracle Technology blog, explained how a nondeveloper, non-DBA colleague was able to configure his access to multiple Oracle Database XE databases from his desktop smoothly. And Tug Grall, an Oracle employee who works on the OC4J team, actually provided his own viewlet demo of an XE/Windows XP install. Pretty cool.
Explore what other members of this blogging community are writing about at oracle.com/blogs.
Justin Kestelyn, OTN Editor in Chief
justin.kestelyn@oracle.com
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Most Popular* Content on OTN
For DBAs/Sysadmins:
1. "Oracle Database 10g: The Top 20 Features
for DBAs" (series), by Arup Nanda
2. "Oracle Database 10g Release 2: Top Features for DBAs," (series), by Arup Nanda
3. "Installing Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux x86," by John Smiley
4. "Build Your Own RAC 10g Release 2 Cluster on Linux and FireWire," by Jeffrey Hunter
5. "Guide to Linux File Command Mastery," by Sheryl Calish
For Developers:
1. "SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook " (series), by various authors
2. "Best Practice PL/SQL" (Q&A) with Steven Feuerstein
3. "Struts Development: Check Your Form with Validator," by James Holmes
4. "The Oracle+PHP Cookbook," by various authors
5. "Mastering J2EE Application Development" by various authors
*For the two-month period ending November 30, 2005
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New Tech Articles, Columns, & Notes
For Developers
"Using .NET Stored Procedures in Oracle"
by Mark A. Williams
A step-by-step guide to developing, deploying, and debugging your .NET stored procedures in Oracle Database 10g Release 2.
"Virtualize Your Oracle Database with Web Services"
by Kuassi Mensah
Explore Oracle Database 10g's Database Web services capabilities and their role in an SOA.
"Using WSIF for Integration"
by Matjaz B. Juric
Learn how BPEL processes can access Java classes and Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) using Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF). Part 4 of "SOA Best Practices: The BPEL Cookbook."
(The full cookbook can be found at oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/bpel_cookbook.)
"Zend Core for Oracle Quick Start"
by Matt Kern
Install, deploy, and configure PHP and Oracle Database using the simplest method available: Zend Core for Oracle.
For DBAs/Sysadmins
"An Introduction to Linux Shell Scripting for DBAs"
by Casimir Saternos
Learn some basic bash shell scripts for installing, running, and maintaining Oracle databases on Linux.
"Installing Oracle Database 10g Release 2 on Linux x86" (an Oracle 10g update to this popular guide)
by John Smiley
Release 2 updates have been made to this popular guide.
New OTN TechCasts (Podcasts)
All OTN TechCasts (podcasts) are available at oracle.com/techcasts
"Facing the Future with JSF" (16 min.)
Principal product manager and evangelist Chris Schalk talks about the state of JavaServer Faces (JSF) today, the future of JSF, and how Oracle JDeveloper and Application Development Framework (ADF) are making the most of this powerful standard for building enterprise application graphical user interfaces.
"What's New with PeopleTools" (15 min.)
Michael Ni, vice president of product strategy at Oracle, discusses the PeopleTools road map outlined at Oracle OpenWorld, the latest release of PeopleTools, and the new features of the next few releases.
Oracle Developer Day: SOA Simplified
oracle.com/start, keyword ODD
Oracle Developer Day is a continuing series of free workshops that cover Java and SOA technologies. Attendees can choose from two tracks.
The first track, Leading-edge J2EE Development with JSF, EJB 3.0, and BPEL, is designed to get experienced Java developers up to speed on the cornerstone technologies for the next generation of Java and SOA development. It covers developing Web applications using rich, interactive UI components; building scalable business services simply with annotations; and orchestrating Web services to create service-oriented applications.
The second track, Rapid J2EE Application Development for Forms and Designer Developers, is a hands-on class on building Java applications with Oracle Application Development Framework. This track will show how concepts familiar to Oracle Forms developers can be directly applied to J2EE development, helping Oracle Forms and Oracle Designer users build effective Java-based business solutions without becoming J2EE gurus.
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