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Fastest Web Application yet??

Nitin Jain — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 03:26:48 +0000

I just had to share this!

How fast do you think can you build a fully functional Web Application? A little bit of twist here. The Web Application must have the Session Handling facility through Java Session Beans. It can optionally make use of Java Service Facades (I am still wondering what in the world that is!!).

A month, 10 days, 5 days??

How about 10 minutes?
Shay Shmelter from Oracle is back with a miracle for us. He has created a fully functional Web Application using Oracle JDeveloper (part of the Oracle SOA Suite) and ADF bindings. Check out the video here. It really is a visual treat.

Is Oracle throwing out a challenge to everybody here?
Just a thought. What prevents this exact scenario to be simulated in other IDEs or RAD Tools? With a little background preparation and practice, a pro may just be able to simulate it in NetBeans as well.

Did I hear NO?? Be a little louder please. You are not audible yet!

Managing Intellectual Properties

Nitin Jain — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:24:45 +0000

hmmmmm.. Interesting!! Tell me honestly, have you ever thought of this aspect?

A very warm Hi to all the readers of my blogs here. I am expected to move in as a Business Analyst for an upcoming opportunity in NY State shortly. As a normal practice, I sat with the existing Technical/ non-Techie people of the team today trying to understand the application. Mark my words, it’s a complex maze of views, screens, integrations, lots of known / hitherto unknown IDs, and definitely, very colourful. I am sure it must be as per the client requests and a baby of the pretty abused term, the “Agile Methodology”!!

All in all, the application seemed very interesting. A thought struck my mind when going through this magnificent piece of art. I could see so many non-vanilla features in the application that I got thinking, “hey, are we tracking these anywhere?”. My point is, any application successfully going live (;-)), has an entire hive of people breaking their heads over it. The requirement could be as absurd as, hey, we don’t like the colour of the default application. Can you just make it just a little more greenish towards the top right?!! Don’t get me wrong, some really interesting and useful ones too!!

There are a lot of people working all through the chain, the developer’s slogging it out and making it technically possible in the end, the solution designers coming out with innovative solutions, the Business Analysts painting all kinds of rosy pictures to grab more and more business, totally unmindful of the poor people behind him when he is making wild commitments, or the business himself, who doesn’t really understand the technicality, but demands just out of intuition and his expected ROIs. Everyone is adding value to the entire process somehow at each step, one way or the other. In the process, they are coming out with some really nice features in the application which could be added as resouces in a separate repository, and pulled out to benefit the next implementation (yeah, I know. This is the shoddiest part of all. After all, this is the part which doesn’t add revenues in the short term to the company’s bottomline!!).

Well, if it is really innovative, and you really follow it up to lodge patents or something similar, you have actually created an Intellectual Property for the organization on the whole. So many of such innovations and IPs come forward everyday in an IT savvy organization. My question is, do you track them? How? What help do you take from IT for IT related IPs?

I understand that GAAP still doesn’t recognize them as Assets in Advanced Accounting, but all the same, the Reported and Actual Accounts are always differentiated.

A simple Googling brought up so many options for Software Solutions to manage these,
IP Menu
Decipher
Mindmatters
Protecode
Anaqua

In fact, a new term, IAM, or the Intellectual Assets Management has been coined for a broader coverage. I guess this is enough food for thought for the day. I will follow this up with my closing comments on what I feel of the entire subject.

Meanwhile, do feel free to put in your thoughts if there is anything you do in your workplace to build up such resources.

Google versus Microsoft?

Nitin Jain — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:27:09 +0000

Two brands, two giants. However, despite being so similar, are so different owing to the fields they work in.

Purely in the order of the companies’ registration date, Microsoft, revolutionary#1, the one which redefined Personal Computing with the Windows Operating System. Today, just one look at the Software Stack provided and supported by MS makes one gasp. Some of the most popular ones I can recall straight away being

MS Windows
MS Office
MS Internet Explorer
MS Windows Server OS
MS Exchange
MS Sharepoint
MS Dynamics
MS Live Search
MS Windows CE (for mobiles)

and what nott!!

Then comes Google, revolutionary#2. The one which I believe defined the Internet as we know it today! Half of our lives today are online. Yeah, we do need an operating system in the first place to go online. Some of the most popular offerings from Google include:
Google Search
Google Chrome Browser
Google Android (mobile OS)
Google Apps

and now, Google Chrome Operating System!!

Yes, you heard it correct. Google has announce that it is coming out with its own Operating system. It is touted Chrome Operating System from the house of Google.

Google has given the established players, in fact went way farther ahead with some of its offerings. It all started with Google Search. It was introduced at a time when nobody ever thought search would become a business this big, leave alone think about the offerings. Today, how Google Search compares with other online searches is History!

Then came Google Apps – the online Document Management solution, and so much more. Up till now, most of us had been living in the On Premise world. The www was only to do searches or play games uptill now.

Google Android compares well with Microsoft’s Windows CE Operating System for Smartphones. Though a late entrant, it has already generated quite a buzz. MS Win CE is, however, here to stay for quite some time undoubtedly!

Google entered the real battle with Google Chrome. MS IE has always been the most popular Web Browser for us to access the Internet. However, there are a large number of references on the net already, calling it an age old browser, insecure, and one tht MS can do quite something with. Speed and simplicity are the hallmarks which however work in favour of Google Chrome. Mozilla’s Firefox has already been there for sometime. Google has also tried to be innovative with some of its sandboxing techniques, and support for the new scripting engine.

All said and done, here is Google, with the announcement of the new Google Chrome Operating System. Google claims that the hallmark of the new OS would be simplicity, speed and security. This pitches it directly against Microsoft, with its ever popular Windows OS.

The probable launch date has been announced as the second half of 2010. I personally believe Google could probably have spoken just a little bit too soon. 2010 end is still a long way away. With the rapid changes in our world today, I am sure it would not be the same around that time either. Well, all I can say is we, the consumers, are in for a bonanza.

Personally speaking, I believe developing a flawless OS is not all that easy a task to be all said and done. Compatibility of third party devices, and tonnes of driver integrations are issues in themselves. In any case, we really hope Google really brings about the change that all of us have been waiting for since so long.

I am just wondering who else could possibly jump into it. Oracle’s Fusion Operating System??

As for now, you can see the official Google release here (Opens in a new window). Hope you have enjoyed the talk.

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g released

admin — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:18:09 +0000

Hi,

We had shared the most happening news of the year with you, with the Oracle Fusion Middleware Launch announcement nearly a month back.

As planned, Oracle has now actually gone on to release the Production version of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g. Rather than people harping on its release and recirculating junk information, we believe the best source of information is the Official Oracle Web Site and the corresponding Press Release itself. Check it out here.

So, it’s finally arrived. Cheers!

Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g announced

Nitin Jain — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:16:51 +0000

This one is for all the SOA enthusiasts out there. Oracle has announced the realease of Oracle SOA Suite 11g, on 1 July 2009.

All of us know Oracle as a pioneer in Service Oriented Architecture. Today, Oracle has a domineering presence with its complete set of SOA based products, the Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle JDeveloper, Oracle Application Server, Oracle Identity Manager, Oracle Webcenter Suite, Oracle Weblogic Suite, and others.

Oracle Webcenter Suite
This is a Portal platform providing a number of functionalities to develop Web based Applications. Its strength lies in its ability to handle change progressively, and its vast ability to connect disparate systems practically connecting people in real time.

Oracle Weblogic Suite
Application Grid Architecture greatly increases the efficiency and performance of hardware in today’s world. Oracle Weblogic Server is the building block of building any such server architecture which is robust, and equally responsive to change.

Oracle Identity Management
Security is of utmost importance in any computing infrastructure today. Oracle Identity Management helps the organizations control Access to Critical resources in a Service Oriented Architecture.

All of us already know of the 11g version to have been in the Technical Preview mode for quite some time. All of us had been waiting eagerly for the Production version to become avialable. The countdown has finally begun.

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