Today is the much awaited launch of FMW 11g. Summary of today:
- Charles Phillips did his little Complete, Open, Integrated spiel. I wonder if he does this in his sleep. It's a compelling story. The "integrated" part is far from realized yet. If it was I'd be doing something else besides integrating Oracle applications for a living.
- The new tagline is "Foundation for Innovation". I can already see the buses in front of Moscone.
- FMW 11g is available for download at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/index.html (just Weblogic and JDev for now) -- rest is available on edelivery.oracle.com
- It includes: Weblogic, SOA Suite, CEP, Webcenter, IdM, Portal, Forms, Reports, Discoverer, Infrastructure (OID), ADF/JDev (been out for a while).
- Kurian spent a lot of time on the metadata dictionary. This wasn't new news to me, they've been talking about this since OOW 2007. It's a bold idea, let's hope Oracle follows through with a solid implementation.
- Duncan Mills did a ADF demo -- slick but nothing real ground breaking. Also showed an IM client, team tools, and bug tracking integrated into JDev.
- Kurian discussed SOA changes -- integration of SOA, event based computing, business process management into single architecture (really? how much of this is marketing and how much is real?). SCA, JAX-*, WS-*, WS-I
- Kurian introduced Unified Business Process Management platform -- again is this actually out now or coming soon?
Presentation running over -- have to watch the rest tonight and process everything. Back to my day job.
Update: Everything else is up now on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/middleware/htdocs/111110_fmw.html
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