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I’ve been so busy working with multiple projects in Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and I also joined infoMENTUM in United Kingdom, but now I’m back and I have loads and loads of articles to write.

Also as some of you may know posterous is closing up their service, so I’ve transferred the blog to octopress so some of the comments may be lost in the process, apologies to the people who commented on my previous threads.

So stay tunes :)

Prologue:

Long time no posts, I’ve been busy coding in the last couple of months, and as the life always do, I really didn’t have much time writting posts, instead I was busy rocking ADF and WebCenter projects.

The Problem:

As all of you ADFers know, skinning in ADF has been pain in the butt, and as Skinning and style is a crucial part for any ADF application, there has to be some way in order to make this work easier.

One tip I found Useful, and I didn’t find enough resources talking about it, is how to populate a value of Entity Attribute or Binding Value with the current logged in user using Groovy

Simply use this: 

adf.context.securityContext.getUserPrincipal().getName()

Piece of cake :)

I started to develop an extension for JDeveloper to be able to connect to Git Versioning System, and so far I had a short success to clone Git Repository to Existing JDeveloper Project (read the article from here)

Now I’ve moved a step further, Now with the extension you can create a new application, with a project name as you wish, and copy the files from repository into your created application.

So I love git, and I Love GitHub and since I use them both, and I use JDeveloper I though of developing a plugin for JDeveloper to integrate with Git and GitHub eventually

INTRO

First I’d like to apologies for the big absent on my side as I was very busy traveling to KSA for a new freelancing Client, but anyway I hope this article make you forgive me :)

Weblogic is a great Application Server, and the one you can count on for your heavy industrial deployment, load balancing, high availability and clustering.

Not only that but it comes with a great scripting tool WLST and the standardization of accessing its MBeans through JMX

There were an old school approach which would allow you to access MBeans through Weblogic APIs itself like so

I recently faced a requirements when the customer needed to display a custom portlet of Oracle UCM specific Document Type in WebCenter Interaction, and those who don’t know WebCenter Interaction aka WCI aka AquaLogic User Interaction aka ALUI, should read about it!

Anyway so I went through UCM Content Portlet Suite (CPS), and I found the search but, the customer wanted a thumbnail (Rendition) of the document to be displayed!

After a long time of silence, I figured out that this blog should be continued as Oracle Open World started, with more news about Oracle Fusion and Cloud Computing.

Here is a summary of what has been said so far:

1. Oracle Exalogic

Larry Ellison showed the most recent hardware machine combining the force of both Oracle software and (now Oracle) Sun hardware. The machine is specifically designed to host applications and function as a private cloud.

Because the ExaLogic ‘elastic cloud’ machine is build upon Oracle’s virtualization software, it combines the possibilities for creating your own cloud computing instance, within your firewall.

ExaLogic offers the possibility to upgrade or patch all running virtual machines on it with one single file, which brings a lot of question only time can answer it!

The new ExaLogic, beside being pretty impressive machine, really has the potential of bringing the cloud to the enterprise, the key to all this is Virtualization. Most enterprises probably don’t want their data in ‘unknown’ data centers. But they do want the flexibility offered by the cloud. Off course other virtualization products offer that, but now Oracle has it all, in one package, Especially the combination of the hardware, the virtualization software and the Coherence software really (could) make it happen, and I always wondered how the Middle East minds will accept hosting their applications on a remote cloud, how can they accept the concept, but now they Don’t have to!  (Some parts quoted from whitehorses.com)

2. Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (EEK)

Oracle announced that it will distribute it’s own Linux kernel, Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel, in addition to continuing a Red Hat-compatible offering. The upshot here is optimizing OS performance for the Exalogic Elastic Cloud server mentioned above. So now Oracle customers will be able to choose between Oracle-branded Red Hat and Oracle’s fork off the Red Hat kernel.

3. Oracle Fusion Applications

Boy now we are talking, now that Oracle established a robust Middleware (Oracle Fusion Middleware) they started creating applications on top of that, so that all it’s application including their SIEBEL, E-Business Suite, JD Edwards and PeopleSoft to be based on Oracle Fusion Middleware and of course that offers a great integration capabilities with one Framework to Develop it All concept!

Ellison announced that the first release of Fusion Applications will generally available in the first quarter of 2011, with seven suites of 100 different products. Customers will be able to purchase individual products or a full suite. The lineup consists of Financials, Project Portfolio Management, Human Capital Management, Procurement, Customer Relationship Management, GRC (Governance, Risk and Compliance), and Supply Chain Management (which includes the app getting my vote for the best acronym - Distributed Order Orchestration or “DOO”).

Here are some Photo:

 
More photos can be found here

Stay tuned on this blog, soon there will be some articles about ECM, SOA, IDM, WebCenter and lots of ADF