Practical experience on Oracle products: oracle maf

Sunday, March 8, 2015

#ofmForum 2015 in Budapest has rocked!

Last week I attended the Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum 2015 in Budapest. Over 150 participants from Europe, US and even Latin America (Peru, Costa Rica, Mexico, Venezuela) joined the great event where various Oracle Product Managers and Oracle Partners exchanged their experiences with the community. Jürgen Kress - well known from his soacommunity & weblogiccommunity blogs - and his team hosted a great event at a great location! Thanks a lot!

The Digital Transformation is just starting

We got an update about Oracles overall cloud & mobile strategy that drives the digital transformation. Nowadays there is a huge demand on business agility due to disruptive technologies and market shifts.

Oracles answer to these requirements are the upcoming Cloud Services

Integration Cloud Service (ICS)
Process Cloud Service (PCS)
Mobile Cloud Service (MCS)

and SaaS solutions running on Oracles PaaS (Database Cloud Service, Java Cloud Service). The main focus for the upcoming releases for Oracle SOA/BPM/ACM 12c is on stability & improvements.

The nice thing about the ofmForum is that there wasn't just slides but on the most products real working demos. On day 2 there were 3 parallel tracks dedicated for SOA, BPM/ACM and WebLogic&Mobile. The experts gave demos on API Catalog, API Manager, StreamExplorer, Event Processing, Mobile Alta UI & OSB Integration for SOAP to REST transformations, MAF, ICS, PCS, MCS and the Java Cloud Service (JCS) plus Developer Cloud Service. Really a lot of new acronyms to learn ;)

Day 3/4 was dedicated to 4 parallel Workshops with a lot of hands-on sessions. (SOA, BPM/ACM, Mobile Application Framework (MAF), Multichannel Enablement). I attended the Multichannel workshop. Based on an existing SOAP-Webservice we used OSB 12c to transform it (without coding) to a REST JSON based service. On top of that we built a mobile app with MAF. In the end I had a running MAF application on my real iOS device.

Networking & Get-together

Besides the cool and new technologies there were a lot of chances to network and get in touch with Oracle Product Managers and Partners. I enjoyed it a lot meeting persons I only knew from twitter or blogs. Thanks for all the great conversations! Further, Budapest is an amazing city! Good food, wine & bars and historical locations. Thanks Jürgen and Oracle for the nice dinner in the spoon restaurant. And if you are in Budapest check out the Simpla Kertmozi, a pretty cool "ruin bar":)

I am really looking forward for the next OFM Forum 2016. Which location will be next?

Further information

See more cool pictures of the event in the twitter stream #ofmForum

Sunday, July 13, 2014

ADF Mobile rebrands to Oracle MAF (Mobile Application Framework) - New Name, New Features, Growing Community!

Shortly after the release of ADF 12.1.3 the cross-platform mobile development framework ADF Mobile was rebranded to Oracle MAF (Mobile Application Framework). Nothing has changed on the technical foundation of that mobile framework. It is still based on Apache Cordova, HTML5/CSS3, Java, and offers the possibility to develop offline-capable apps with the help of an embedded SQLite database. The developed hybrid apps run on iOS and Android-based smartphones and tablets.

Oracle MAF (Mobile Application Framework) - Build Once , Run anyware

Oracle MAF Overview

The migration of ADF Mobile Apps to Oracle MAF runs smoothly. The migration is totaly transparent when opening the existing app in JDeveloper 12.1.3/Oracle MAF 2.0 Extension. Excellent!

A highlight of Oracle MAF is that Apache Cordova plugins (eg barcode scanner plugins) can be integrated. The included sample apps have a showcase for reading barcodes. This is very handy! The integrated barcode scanner gives rise to many new and interesting fields of action. Hope to blog about that in more detail in near future. Stay tuned!

Oracle MAF - Finally integrated BarCode Scanner

Oracle MAF 2.0 - Barcode Scanner Integration included

I won't list all the new features here, since it is well announced by Shay Shmeltzer here (Say hello to the new Oracle MAF) and here (Oracle MAF hits the street).

Besides the "rebranding" many new "channels" were launched, such as a forum for technical issues, a community at G+, Twitter and Facebook. I have checked all that and summarized the most important links. A lot of activity is going on! Enjoy Exploring;)

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