Oracle + Kenai : clarifying the message …
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 06/02/2010
Last week, when publishing a serie of webcasts explaining the Oracle + Sun product strategy, Oracle clearly announced the end of Sun’s sponsored source forge Kenai.com.
Today, Oracle sent a very different message to the community and recognized they poorly communicated about this. To summarize it : current plans are to reuse Kenai.com infrastructure to power another Sun’s sponsored source forge : java.net (hosting projects such as GlassFish, OpenSSO and OpenESB amongst others).
Communities and projects currently hosted on Kenai.com will be migrated to Java.net
Is it really a poorly executed communication ? Or does Oracle step back due to community feedback ?
Should the later be correct, this is a good sign that Oracle is (very) quickly learning how to deal with the many communities it inherits when acquiring Sun Microsystems.
Oracle + Sun : Java Developer Tools and Communities FAQ
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 01/02/2010
Earlier today, Oracle posted a FAQ answering the most common questions regarding development tools and developer comunities. It addresses questions about java.net, Kenai, GlassFish, NetBeans, JavaONE etc …
This complements the previous Java Development tools FAQ posted last week.
For more details about Oracle+Sun product strategy, you might have a look at the many webcasts available.
Oracle + Sun IDM Strategy
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 29/01/2010
Since Oracle’s Sun acquisition completed on January 27th, Oracle started a massive communication campaign to detail product’s roadmap and integration.
Regarding Identity Management (IDM) products and technologies strategy and integration, you can view the full web cast (18 minutes) or just read through my summary below.
Directory (LDAP)
- Sun Directory Server is strategic and will consume some of the features of Oracle Internet Directory.
- OpenDS stays an open source project.
Authorization and Access Management
- Oracle Access Manager is the strategic product for Web SSO
- Sun OpenSSO continues as an open source project
- Oracle Identity Federation is strategic and will include OpenSSO’s fedlet
- Oracle Access Manager will be enhanced with OpenSSO Secure Token Service (for web service security)
- Oracle plans to create migration tools from OpenSSO to OAM and OIF
- Sun OpenSSO Enterprise will be renamed Oracle OpenSSO
As with other products, Oracle will extend OpenSSO support until 2014 (for premium support) and 2017 (for extended support).
Provisioning
- Oracle Identity Manager is strategic
- Oracle Identity Manager will be enhances with functionality of Sun Identity Manager (mainly SPML provisioning)
- Oracle plans to create migration tools from Sun Identity Manager to Oracle Identity Manager
- Sun Identity Manager will be renamed Oracle WaveSet
Compliance
- Sun Role Manager is strategic and will be called Oracle Identity Analytics
Oracle + Sun SOA Strategy
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 29/01/2010
Since Oracle’s Sun acquisition completed on January 27th, Oracle started a massive communication campaign to detail product’s roadmap and integration.
Regarding SOA products and technology strategy and integration, you can view the full web cast (17 minutes) or just read through my summary below.
Oracle will obviously continue to focus on it’s Fusion Middleware offering, and more specifically, Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Service Bus (formerly known as Aqualogic Service Bus from Bea). This is the strategic SOA platform for the future.
- Java CAPS will be maintained and improved for existing customers
- GlassFish ESB will continue as an open source project
- Oracle plans to support collaboration between Java CAPS and Oracle SOA Suite through bridges technology, allowing to bring new features to Java CAPS such as SOA Governance, Workflow etc …
- Oracle expects to integrate key features of Java CAPS into Oracle SOA Suite
Oracle also extends the End of Support dead line for SRE 5.0.5, eGate 4.5.3, GlassFish ESB 2.1 and Java CAPS 6.2 to January 2014 (premium support) or Jan 2017 (extended support)
As always, Oracle also proposes a lifetime sustaining support.
By the way, for those of you wanted to start with Oracle’s SOA Suite, my colleague Patrice just published an excellent three-parts tutorial in addition to the material published by Oracle.
Bye bye Sun
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in General on 21/01/2010
This is the end. Let a new adventure begin !
I am looking forward new challenges, new adventures, new innovations ….
(thanks jag for the artwork)
Java European Roadshow
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 12/01/2010
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Java European Roadshow, coming to a city near you …. Join us to get an insight into recent trends, strategies and applications in the areas of Java and Java for Business. Learn how to keep your Java applications safe, reliable and secure and how to get the best out of your current Java platform, be it embedded, standard or enterprise edition, or Real-Time Java. Meet and discuss with Sun experts David Hofert, Simon Ritter, Steve Elliott, Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine and others. |
Java EE 6 online code camp is starting today
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 11/01/2010
The first online Java EE 6 code camp is starting today, it is not too late to register.
The objectives of this code camp is to let you practice and code, code, code using key Java EE 6 technologies.
Online mentors (top notches guys from the Java community) will be available online to answer your questions.
One more thing : this is entirely free, so do not hesitate and register today.
WS-Security with GlassFish ESB
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Uncategorized on 12/10/2009
When selling GlassFish ESB to partners, we (Sun) have to provide our partners with all the material allowing them a quick ramp-up on our technology. That’s the main reason why my group (Sales Engineers, Northern Europe) created a 3 days GlassFish ESB technical workshop.
My contribution to this workshop is a one hour module about WS-Security and GlassFish ESB (and OpenESB). The idea is to demonstrate how easy it is to setup a WS-Security enabled channel between a web service provider and a web service client.
Specifically, the screencast tutorial shows how to establish mutual certificate authentication between an EJB based web service and a JBI service assembly, acting as web service client, in this case, a BPEL module.
The module is now released online, booth as PDF slides and as a screencast tutorial.
To learn more about WS-Security, I recommend this reading.
Enjoy !
Do More with Less
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in General on 11/10/2009
Sun-Oracle TPC-C benchmark result announcement is loud and clear :
- 8x less hardware
- 4x less power
= 16x better performance
JavaFX presentations and demo during our last JUG meeting
Posted by Sébastien Stormacq in Java on 27/07/2009
A couple of days ago, the Luxembourg Java User Group – YaJuG – and the Lorraine JUG held a last meeting before the holiday season. They invited Simon Ritter and myself to talk about ademo JavaFX.
The meeting was organized on a boat (une péniche) usually dedicated for theatre performances.
The slides are now posted on YaJuG’s web site while Lorraine JUG posted some pictures on Picassa.
French local newspaper "Le Républicain Lorrain" wrote a short paper about this and even sent a photograph for the occasion (lower left of the page, in french !).