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New (HotSpot) JDK adds JRMC and Flight Recorder

Oracle has just released JDK 7u40 which includes some pretty useful new features – most notable for me is the inclusion of JRockit Mission Control and Flight Recorder, giving us a lot more tools for recording and analyzing performance information … Continue reading

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Quick introduction to the new WebLogic Maven Plugin (in 12.1.2)

In WebLogic Server 12.1.2, Oracle has released a new Maven plugin, as I talked about here.  This video gives a quick introduction to the basics of getting the plugin installed and using it.  Be sure to check out the Coherence … Continue reading

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Why do we need to change? -or- What’s wrong with how we do it now?

Before we start talking about how to do things better, we need to have a clear picture of how we do things today, and why that approach is not optimal.  Obviously every organization is different, and there is a continuum … Continue reading

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New Maven support in Coherence 12c

Coherence 12.1.2 was recently released, including the new Coherence Managed Servers and also Maven support.  You can read more about it here. You may also be interested in these two excellent video introductions/demonstrations from the Coherence team: Both cover the … Continue reading

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New ADF Architecture TV YouTube Channel Launched

The ADF Product Management team has just announced the ADF Architecture TV YouTube channel.  The channel will publish new episodes on ADF design, architecture, development and deployment best practices each week, for a total of about 100 episodes. The channel … Continue reading

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New Maven support in Fusion Middleware 12.1.2

Oracle has just released version 12.1.2 of the Fusion Middleware platform.  This release includes some new support for build automation with Maven and for continuous integration.  In this post I want to give you a quick tour of what is … Continue reading

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New A-Team Web Site Launched

Update: Seems I was a bit early!  The site should be launched soon 🙂 The A-Team has launched a new web site – the A-Team Chronicles which aggregates and organizes content produced by The A-Team members (including your humble blogger). The … Continue reading

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New FREE ADF Mobile training released

Oracle has launched a new, interactive, online, and FREE ADF Mobile course: Developing  Applications with ADF Mobile. From the announcement: “The course blends media-rich content to bring you  interviews with the experts, engaging interactions, and inviting demos and graphics that … Continue reading

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Case Management Samples Released

Heidi Buelow (@heidibuelowBPM) from the BPM Product Management team at Oracle, has published some Case Management samples on java.net. They include the ‘EURent’ case definition, which is a car rental scenario.  Included is a document that walks you through the … Continue reading

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Instance Patching Demo for BPM 11.1.1.7

BPM 11.1.1.7 has a new ‘instance patching and migration’ feature that allows you to apply changes to running instances of processes (without changing the revision of the process) and/or to migrate running instances between revisions of a process. There is … Continue reading

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