Oracle Magazine - July/August 2011

Product Resources DEMOS Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management Learn how Oracle Hyperion Data Relationship Management models business rules and constraints of managing the business to streamline change management. bit.ly/mgeSmz F

Oracle Releases Oracle ADF Mobile Client

Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client (Oracle ADF Mobile Client), a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware that allows developers to create applications for mobile devices, is now available. Oracle ADF Mobile Client is based on the same programming paradigm as JavaServer Faces and uses a single Java user interface framework and tooling for all supported devices.

Developers can build an application with Oracle ADF Mobile Client, deploy it to multiple devices, and extend it to new platforms without redevelopment.

Developers using Oracle ADF Mobile
Client can employ a mix of visual editing
tools and Java code
to define a device-
independent rep-
resentation of an
application. Oracle
ADF Mobile Client
provides design tools
and data synchronization services for offline
data synchronization, as well as real-time
data links via Web services. Data can also
be cached locally for hybrid online/offline
mobile applications. Applications created
with Oracle ADF Mobile Client can access
local device hardware (such as cameras,
barcode readers, and GPS devices) through
Java code embedded in the application.
“The increased adoption of mobile busi-
ness applications requires Java developers
to create and extend mobile applications
faster than ever before,” says Ted Farrell,
chief architect and senior vice president
of tools and middleware at Oracle. “Oracle
ADF Mobile Client enables developers to
leverage their existing skill sets to effi-
ciently deploy applications across mobile
devices and platforms and address rapidly
increasing mobility requirements within
the enterprise.”
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TUTORIALS
Oracle BPM 11g Quick Start Series
This series of four short tutorials covers the
essentials of using Oracle Business Process
Management 11g to model and simulate,
implement, participate in, and monitor a
business process.
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Oracle Exadata Database Machine
Best Practices Series
In this tutorial series, members of Oracle’s
maximum availability architecture team
share tips, tricks, and best practices for
implementing, managing, and working with
Oracle Exadata Database Machine.
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Respin Your Desktop Application
Using Java Web Start
Learn how to respin your desktop applica-
tion by converting it into a Java Web Start
application.
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Java EE 7 Java Specification Request Approved

The Java Community Process (JCP)

Executive Committee has approved the Java Specification Request (JSR) for JSR 342, the next release of Java Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE). Java EE 7 enhances the Java EE platform for cloud environments and will allow Java EE 7–based applications and products to operate more easily in private and public clouds. Features such as multi-tenancy and elasticity will allow Java EE 7 applications to function as a service.

The JCP also approved JSR 340 for Java
Servlet 3. 1, JSR 341 for Expression Language

3.0, JSR 343 for Java Message Service 2.0,
and JSR 344 for JavaServer Faces 2. 2. These
submissions complement JSR 338 for Java
Persistence API 2. 1 and JSR 339 for Java API for
RES Tful Web Services.
“Java is already the most pervasive server-
side development and deployment platform
for the cloud,” says Steven G. Harris, senior
vice president of Oracle Fusion Middleware
product development. “With Java EE 7,
enterprise developers and deployers will see
additional cloud-specific innovation built
into the standard and available across many
vendor implementations.”
jcp.org/en/jsr/summary?id=342

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MySQL 5. 6 Development Milestone Release Available

MySQL 5. 6 has an improved optimizer, for
better query performance; more partitioning
options, for faster access to relevant data;
and better performance monitoring and
tuning. InnoDB now offers more-predictable
optimizer plans; more-efficient purge opera-
tions; and comprehensive resources infor-
mation for tuning and troubleshooting.
“With this first MySQL 5. 6 development
milestone release, we are offering early
access to new stable features for testing,”
says Tomas Ulin, vice president of engi-
neering at Oracle. “Oracle continues to inno-
vate and enhance MySQL Database, deliv-
ering a higher-performing, more scalable,
more reliable, and easier-to-use MySQL.”
dev.mysql.com

Now available, the first development milestone release for MySQL 5. 6 delivers increased performance, scalability enhancements, an improved InnoDB storage engine, and enhanced replication capabilities.