Jan Carlin's Blog
A Swede in the digital diaspora

Oracle's Java plug-in JInitiator will not be supported in version 11g of Forms. We will only support Sun's JRE. Most likely the version we will certify with is 1.6.0_12. There are plans to also support 1.5.0 but that is not for certain quite yet. On the server side (for those of you who call out to Java with the help of the Java importer) we will use version 1.6.0.

If you use JInitiator today and you are planning to go to 11g when it comes out you will need to plan for migrating to Sun's JRE as well. This should not be a big project since the JRE can be downloaded from Sun's web site and its possible to have it download automatically from your servers but I know of companies that have their desktops locked down and only allow approved software and that can present a problem.

So plan for changing to Sun's JRE now.

There is a new white paper on the topic of setting up Oracle Single Sign-on when using SSL on the Forms site on OTN. It was written by Oracle Customer Support and is very comprehensive.

The PJC/Java Bean competition on OTN has yielded a lot of nice entries and I thought I'd ask you, the Forms users, to decide which is the best one. The poll is here. Head over to the poll before the 13th of March to vote for the best one. Francois Degrelle has a nice listing for them all with links to more information here.

If you are interested in trying your hand at Oracle's Java development Framework ADF, a new set of 8 workshops across the USA where you get hands-on training on JDeveloper and ADF 11g might be of interest to you. They are free.

Feb. 26, 2009 New York City
March 3, 2009 Dallas
March 10, 2009 St. Louis, Mo.
March 17, 2009 Reston, Va.
March 31, 2009 Pasadena, Calif.
April 14, 2009 Salt Lake City, Ut.
April 16, 2009 Boston
TBD Minneapolis

More information and registration here:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/events/otn-developer-day/index.html

I just finished uploading the updated version of the Hands-on workshop for Forms developers wanting to try their hand on JDeveloper. Its updated for JDeveloper version 11.1.1. The first page of the workshop is here and the full list of labs is at the bottom of this page. There are 5 labs in total and they take you through the steps of making Entity and View objects (roughly equivalent to blocks in Forms) via declarative business rules and navigation (I wish we had declarative navigation in Forms) all the way to data pages (canvases in Forms). Try them out if you are interested and let me know in the comments what you think.