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Uninstalling Oracle Products on Windows 2000

1. Ensure that you are logged in as a user with Administrator privileges
   
2. If any Oracle services (their names always begin with "Oracle") are running, then stop them:
   
   
   
   1. Right-click My Computer > Manage > Services and Applications > Services
      
   2. Scroll down to the Oracle services
      
   3. For each service with status "Started", select the service and click Stop
      
   
   
   

   
   
   

3. Use the Oracle Installer to uninstall the software:
   
   
   
   1. Click Start > Oracle - <home> > Oracle Installation Products > Universal Installer
      
   2. Click Installed Products
      
   3. For each product, expand the Oracle home you want to uninstall, select the product, click Remove, and then click Yes
      
   4. Exit the Installer
      
   
   
   

   
   
   

4. Start the registry editor: Click Start > Run > type regedit and press Enter
   
5. Note the value of the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\inst_loc (probably "C:\Program Files\Oracle\Inventory")
   
6. Delete the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE
   
7. Delete all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ODBC that are related with the "Oracle ODBC Driver"
   
8. Delete all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall that are related to Oracle
   
9. Delete all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services that begin with ORACLE or ORAWEB
   
10. Delete all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\EventLog\Application that begin with ORACLE
    
11. Delete all keys under HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT that begin with Ora or ORCL (e.g. Oracle*, ORADC*, ORAMMC*, OraOLE*, OraPerf*, and ORCL*)
    
12. Delete all keys under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes that begin with Ora or ORCL (e.g. Oracle*, ORADC*, ORAMMC*, OraOLE*, OraPerf*, and ORCL*)
    
13. Delete the key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Oracle
    
14. Delete all keys that match the pattern HKEY_USERS\*\Software\Oracle
    
15. Close the registry
    
    

    
    
    

16. Clean the environment:
    
    
    
    1. Click Start > Settings > Control Panel > System > Advanced tab > Environment variables
       
    2. Edit the PATH variable in the System Variables section:
       
       
       
       • Remove all references to Oracle homes (e.g. d:\ora904mt)
         
       • If JRE was installed by Oracle, then remove the JRE path
         
       
       
    3. If there is a CLASSPATH variable in the System Variables section, then note its value and then delete it
       
    4. If there are any other Oracle variables in the System Variables section (e.g. ORACLE_HOME, ORACLE_SID, TNS_ADMIN, JSERV, or WV_GATEWAY_CFG), then delete them
       
    5. Click OK and then OK again to close the System Properties box
       
    6. Close the Control Panel
       
    
    
    

    
    
    

17. Remove remaining folders and icons:
    
    
    
    1. Right-click Start and select Explore
       
    2. Navigate to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs
       
    3. Delete the folders that begin with Oracle
       
    4. Delete the folder whose name was pointed to by HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORACLE\inst_loc
       
    5. Close the Explorer window
       
    
    
    

    
    
    

18. Delete all folders and files in the C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\ directory
    
19. Delete the Oracle home directories
    
20. Right-click Recycle Bin, select Empty Recycle Bin, and click Yes
    
    

    
    
    

21. Defragment you disk:
    
    
    
    1. Right-click My Computer > Manage > Storage > Disk Defragmenter
       
    2. For each drive, select it and click Defragment
       
    
    
    

    
    
    

22. Reboot the computer
    

Top 10 things to do to prepare for Fusion Applications.

1. Consider Upgrading to the Latest Release of your Applications.
For example, Oracle E-Business Suite - 11i10 or R12, PeopleSoft Enterprise - 8.8, 8.9 or 9.0, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - 8.11 or 8.12, Siebel - 7.8, 8.0 applications

2. Rethink your Customization Strategy

a) Is what I put in place still valid and worth keeping?
b) If they are still required, should customers evaluate if there
are better ways of doing/developing these customizations?
c) Should I think about engineering for the future with products
that will survive the upgrade to Fusion? What are those
products?
d) What are the benefits of implementing Fusion technology?

3. Put together a Project Plan to migrate to Fusion

a) Are there areas where you will need to upgrade first?
b) Do I need to evaluate the drivers (business as well as IT)
to upgrade to Fusion Applications?
c) Is there a pilot project for upgrading to Fusion, based on
geography, departmental/functional silos or other reasons?

4. Take advantage of Oracle’s Fusion Architecture and Fusion Middleware

a) How can I evaluate the benefits of Oracle Fusion
Architecture?
b) Does it solve business problems such as security and
compliance, integrating new business flows at lower cost
and or is it just about cleaning and consolidating the
critical data?
c) You can actually use the Fusion Technology today. Go to
www.oracle.com/fusion for more details.

5. Consider Master Data Management

a) Master Data Management (MDM), is a data hub tool that
enables you to synchronize critical data such as
customers, suppliers and products - in a single, accurate,
consistent view of the company’s data, whether from
packaged, legacy or custom applications.
b) You should consider consolidating and cleaning your
critical data about customers, suppliers and products
before going to Fusion.

6. Move to SOA-based Integration

a) Find out from Oracle what they are doing to make their
suite (EBS, PSFT, SEBL and JDE) of applications
SOA-enabled? Are they providing new capabilities in each
product to help them play in a SOA world?
b) Check out Oracle Fusion Middleware – it is a complete
product line - much more than just the application server. It
includes a process orchestration modeling tool BPEL PM,
business activity monitoring (BAM), as well as an
enterprise services bus (ESB). All these tools are known
as the SOA suite and can be used by ALL Oracle
customers today (EBS, PSFT, SEBL, JDE as well as other
point solutions such as Oracle Retail, G-Log etc... ).
c) Consider leveraging Oracle’s Application Integration
Architecture (AIA), which develops a number of Process
Industry Packs to integrate various applications products,
namely SEBL, EBS, G-Log, PSFT etc…. these can be
tailored by customers to fit their applications infrastructure.

7. Extend your Business Intelligence Portfolio

a) Adopt Oracle’s enterprise reporting, publishing & business
intelligence tool (comes with each of our Applications). All
applications have been certified with Fusion BI known as
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition or OBI EE,
which includes XML Publisher (also known as BI Publisher)
b) Start converting your reports to XMLP.Your users will love it! c) Leverage OBI EE as well as XMLP to improve and enhance
your enterprise reporting & analytics today. You will be a
head of the game - these are part of the Fusion Technology.

8. Secure your Global Enterprise by Consolidating

a) Review your custom and legacy applications. You may be
at risk not only to data fragmentations but also to security
fragmentation which could increase your security
vulnerability and security risks.
b) Start consolidating security functions by centralizing
access control (by implementing LDAP and SSO), ensuring
data privacy and enabling compliance for the entire
enterprise.
c) Externalize security functions from the applications (where
it was built by the traditional applications) to a centralized
and professionally managed security infrastructure).
d) Get ahead of the curve by using Oracle’s Fusion Security
(known as the Oracle Identity Management), knowing it is
the security infrastructure for Fusion Applications.

9. Consider Grid Computing

a) Think “Grid” at all levels before going to Fusion. Especially
in a SOA-world where services are independent, well-
defined encapsulations of software functionality that can be
invoked over a network using heterogeneous platforms and
execution environments.
i. Grid computing is about resource allocation,
information sharing & high availability at lower cost.
ii. Resource allocation ensures that all who need or
request resources are getting what they need, that
resources are not standing idle while requests are
going unserviced.
iii. Information sharing makes sure that the users and
applications need is always available.
iv. High availability features guarantee all the data and
computation is always there, just like a utility
company always provides electric power.

10. Centralize your Lifecycle Management

a) Minimize hardware, software and system management
costs by moving to Oracle’s Grid Control, also known as
the Oracle Enterprise Manager - that is the centralized
management tools that help you manage your applications,
database, middleware, operating system, storage and the
network – all from one console.
i. Oracle Enterprise Manager works with most of
Oracle’s applications, using the Applications
Management Packs. These packs reduce efforts to
manage multiple environments, allow faster discovery
and diagnosis of incidents and provide rapid
provisioning and scaling.
b) What is great about the console is that it is the very same
console that will also manage the Fusion Applications.
c) Start with Grid Control today. You will be able to plug in
your first Fusion pilot along side your EBS, PSFT or SEBL
applications as if it were just another application in your
enterprise.
d) Grid Control will be the hub of Oracle Applications Lifecycle
Management.

JUnit for beginners.

JUnit is an open source framework designed for the purpose of writing and running tests in the Java programming language. JUnit, has been important in the evolution of test-driven development.
JUnit , making it possible to write and test source code quickly and easily. JUnit allows the developer to incrementally build test suites to measure progress and detect unintended side effects. Tests can be run continuously. Results are provided immediately. JUnit shows test progress in a bar that is normally green but turns red when a test fails. An ongoing list of unsuccessful tests appears in a space near the bottom of the display window. Multiple tests can be run concurrently. No subjective human judgments or interpretations of test results are required. The simplicity of JUnit makes it possible for the software developer to easily correct bugs as they are found.

Few reasons to know why to use?

1) JUnit tests allow you to write code faster while increasing quality.2) JUnit is elegantly simple and writing Junit tests is inexpensive. 3) JUnit tests check their own results and provide immediate feedback. 4) JUnit tests can be composed into a hierarchy of test suites. 5) It increase the stabilty of software.

You can download a latest version of JUnit.

STEP1 : Writing a Test Case

import junit.framework.TestCase;
public class ShoppingCartTest extends TestCase {
private ShoppingCart cart;
private Product book1;
protected void setUp() {
cart = new ShoppingCart();
book1 = new Product("Pragmatic Unit Testing", 29.95);
cart.addItem(book1);
}
protected void tearDown() {
// release objects under test here, if necessary
}
public void testEmpty() {
cart.empty();
assertEquals(0, cart.getItemCount());
}
public void testAddItem() {
Product book2 = new Product("Pragmatic Project Automation", 29.95);
cart.addItem(book2);
double expectedBalance = book1.getPrice() + book2.getPrice();
assertEquals(expectedBalance, cart.getBalance(), 0.0);
assertEquals(2, cart.getItemCount());
}
public void testRemoveItem() throws ProductNotFoundException {
cart.removeItem(book1);
assertEquals(0, cart.getItemCount());
}
public void testRemoveItemNotInCart() {
try {
Product book3 = new Product("Pragmatic Version Control", 29.95);
cart.removeItem(book3);
fail("Should raise a ProductNotFoundException");
} catch(ProductNotFoundException expected) {
}
}
}

STEP 2: Write a Test Suite

we'll write a test suite that includes several test cases. The test suite will allow us to run all of its test cases in one fell swoop.
To write a test suite, follow these steps:
Write a Java class that defines a static suite() factory method that creates a TestSuite containing all the tests.
Optionally define a main() method that runs the TestSuite in batch mode.
The following is an example test suite:


import junit.framework.Test;
import junit.framework.TestSuite;
public class EcommerceTestSuite {
public static Test suite() {
TestSuite suite = new TestSuite();
suite.addTestSuite(ShoppingCartTest.class);
suite.addTest(CreditCardTestSuite.suite());
return suite;
}
/**
* Runs the test suite using the textual runner.
*/
public static void main(String[] args) {
junit.textui.TestRunner.run(suite());
}
}

You can Download Complete source code.

I hope you got an idea how to run and why to use?

I will update it further very soon,....

Concept of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)

This is a very good notes for Beginners to know about SOA.


SOA is not a technology or something you install. It is a concept, or rather an approach to modelling your system, and one that is different from the standard client/server model you may be used to. As opposed to large, proprietary applications that do everything, SOA is a design meant to try to integrate numerous and diverse software applications with common interfaces, in the name of code reuse/maintainability, and adaptibility. The notion of using a group of independent applications to accomplish a shared task is also sometimes referred to as grid computing.

Everyone knows that "Web Services" are one of the hottest things lately. An SOA is essentially a collection of such services, communicating with one another, generally through XML. (Of course I am over-simplifying things: SOA can involve any kind of self-contained service communicating in any way.)

SOA is not specific to any technology, indeed every "family" of technologies has its own SOA solution, and usually you can mix-and-match your own. However, open-source XML-based technologies such as BPEL, SOAP and WSDL are very commonly used.


I will update few more details related to SOA Soon..

What is Business Process Execution language (BPEL) ?

Why BPEL came into picture?

The purpose/idea behind almost new technology for application development is to provide an business application with less effort and also which can be easily adapted to changing nature of business processes without much effort.

Integrating a different applications is always a difficult task for various functional or technical realted reasons.eventhough JAVA has provided the excellent platform to develop such applications,as business application cannot be isolated.

So,now here SOA will come into picture,we can say integration challenges were resolved by Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services technologies.Thus we can now access different functionalities of different legacy and new developed applications in a standard way (through web services). Such access to functionalities is important because typical companies have a large number of existing applications which have to be integrated.

Developing the web services and exposing the functionalities is not sufficient. We also need a way to compose these functionalities in the right order – a way to define business processes which will make use of the exposed functionalities. We would obviously prefer a relatively simple and straightforward way to define such processes, particularly because we know that business processes change often, therefore we would like to modify them easily.

This is where the BPEL (Business Process Execution Language for Web Services, also WS-BPEL or BPEL4WS) becomes important. BPEL allows composition of web services and is thus the top-down approach to SOA – the process oriented approach to SOA.

What is oc4j standalone....?

Hello All,

Hope you are playing well with oracle fusion middleware..
small confusion i would like to clear..
difference between oc4j and oracle application server...

OC4J standalone?

OC4J standalone is a distribution of Oracle Application Server product that contains just the J2EE and Web Services components. OC4J standalone is much smaller than the full Oracle Application Server product and is downloaded as a single zip file. It is executed as a single Java process.

OC4J standalone is J2EE 1.3 compatible and is able to be used in both development and small scale production environments. OC4J standalone provides its own inbuilt HTTP/S listener to allow clients to execute Web applications that it has deployed. Application deployment and server configuration of OC4J standalone is performed by the manual editing of a simple set of XML files.

For large scale enterprise deployments, the Oracle Application Server product is likely to be more suitable with its comprehensive feature set including Oracle HTTP Server, process monitoring and management capabilities, and its configuration and management console.



I Hope concept is now somewhat clear :)

Oracle Certifies PeopleSoft Applications with Oracle® Fusion Middleware

PeopleSoft Customers to Benefit from Oracle’s Hot-Pluggable Service-Oriented Architecture..

Oracle today announced it has certified Oracle's PeopleSoft Enterprise applications with Oracle(r) Fusion Middleware 10g Release 2. The certification enables customers to protect, extend and evolve their existing investments in PeopleSoft applications using Oracle Fusion Middleware, an integrated suite of standards-based middleware products for building and deploying Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). This marks a key milestone in the delivery of the Oracle Fusion Architecture.

Oracle's certification of PeopleSoft, Oracle E-Business Suite and JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications with Oracle Fusion Middleware is expected to benefit customers both immediately and in the long-term. Today, the certifications make it easier for organizations to use SOAs to integrate their PeopleSoft applications with other packaged and custom applications as well as legacy systems using Oracle Fusion Middleware. Additionally, the common services-oriented middleware platform is expected to make it easier for customers to upgrade to new versions of Oracle's applications; to integrate applications via portal, data and business process layers; and to define, manage and change security policies across a collection of business services while laying the overall foundation for a SOA.

Pricing
Oracle Fusion Middleware for PeopleSoft customers is available for $60,000 per CPU. It features key components of Oracle Fusion Middleware including portal, BPEL, business-to-business integration, business activity monitoring, business intelligence, single sign-on, Web cache and the Oracle Fusion Middleware PeopleSoft adapter. Terms, conditions and restrictions apply.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Overview

Lets briefly discuss about Oracle Fusion Middleware and one liner on its various components to give you a feel of Oracle Fusion Middleware.

What is Fusion Middleware ?
Oracle Fusion Middleware is a family of oracle product's which will help in application development and integration solution to Identity Management, Collaboration Suite & Business Intelligence reports.
Various products of Fusion Middleware Family are

Application Server
BPA Suite (Business Process Analysis)
Business Integration
Business Intelligence
Collaboration Suite (Content, RTC, Mail Server, Discussion, Calendar)
Data Hub
Data Integrator Developer Tools
EDA Suite (Event Driven Architecture Suite)
Identity Management
SDP Suite (Service Delivery Platform)
SOA Suite (Service Oriented Architecture)
Web center Suite

For most of us grasping/understanding all of them at once is difficult so I 'll be discussing one liner about all these components and later I'll cover them in detail based on each components importance & use in real world.

Application Server
-----------------------
This is core component in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Various component of Application Server are Webcache, j2ee, wireless & portal and uses Infrastructure Services like Single Sign-On and Oracle Internet Directory.

Business Process Analysis (BPA)
---------------------------------------
This helps in modelling business process and converting them to IT executable. Various components of BPA suite helps business user to design, model, simulate and optimize business process. This helps in reducing gap between strategy and actual execution of that strategy. Various components of BPA are Architect, Repository, Simulator & Publisher.

Business Integration
-------------------------
Connecting or Integrating processes, Applications or information with business partners using hot pluggable products which are based on Services Oriented Architecture.


Business Intelligence
--------------------------
This product covers most of business Intelligence needs in today's world like ad hoc query analysis, reporting & publishing, dashboards and real time analysis.

Collaboration Suite
------------------------
This product provides tools to collaborate seamlessly from any application or device in an enterprise. Key component of Collaboration Suite are Real Time Collaboration, Content Services (iFS in past), Workspaces, eMails, Discussions, Calendar . More on this coming soon...

Data Hub
------------
It is central location for your entire enterprise data from all sources to get 360 degree view of enterprise data. You can update & clean you data in data hub and then use application to view this data.

Data Integrator
-------------------
As name suggest this product integrate vast amount of data across heterogeneous systems. This is based on ELT (Extract Load & Transform) architecture and provide Hot-Pluggable (Drop & Deploy) knowledge modules.

EDA Suite (Event Driven Architecture)
---------------------------------------------
Product to create, process, analyze and manage with as less possible custom coding . component of EDA suite are BAM (Business Activity Monitoring), Business Rules, Enterprise messaging, ESB (Enterprise Service Bus), Sensor Edge Server. You will know more about these components in comping topics on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) Suite.

Identity Management
----------------------------
OID and Oracle SSO integrated with various other Identity management components like Web Access Control, Federated Identity & user provisioning.

SOA Suite
------------
Product for building , managing & developing SOA's . Various components of SOA suite are BPEL, Web Service Manager, BAM (Business Activity Manager)

How Customers Can Prepare for Fusion Applications...

How Customers Can Prepare for Fusion Applications...

While at Collaborate 07 in Las Vegas last month, I happen to attend an incredible session led by my colleage, Nadia Bendjedou, about �What Customers Can Do Today to Prepare for Fusion Applications�. For those of you who didn�t get to attend this or haven�t had a chance to participate in one of her many Webcasts and or Podcasts, I thought I would highlight some of her best practices � Top 10 things to do to prepare for Fusion Applications.

1. Consider Upgrading to the Latest Release of your Applications.

For example, Oracle E-Business Suite - 11i10 or R12, PeopleSoft Enterprise - 8.8, 8.9 or 9.0, JD Edwards EnterpriseOne - 8.11 or 8.12, Siebel - 7.8, 8.0 applications

2. Rethink your Customization Strategy

a) Is what I put in place still valid and worth keeping?
b) If they are still required, should customers evaluate if there
are better ways of doing/developing these customizations?
c) Should I think about engineering for the future with products
that will survive the upgrade to Fusion? What are those
products?
d) What are the benefits of implementing Fusion technology?

3. Put together a Project Plan to migrate to Fusion

a) Are there areas where you will need to upgrade first?
b) Do I need to evaluate the drivers (business as well as IT)
to upgrade to Fusion Applications?
c) Is there a pilot project for upgrading to Fusion, based on
geography, departmental/functional silos or other reasons?

4. Take advantage of Oracle�s Fusion Architecture and Fusion Middleware

a) How can I evaluate the benefits of Oracle Fusion
Architecture?
b) Does it solve business problems such as security and
compliance, integrating new business flows at lower cost
and or is it just about cleaning and consolidating the
critical data?
c) You can actually use the Fusion Technology today. Go to
www.oracle.com/fusion for more details.

5. Consider Master Data Management

a) Master Data Management (MDM), is a data hub tool that
enables you to synchronize critical data such as
customers, suppliers and products - in a single, accurate,
consistent view of the company�s data, whether from
packaged, legacy or custom applications.
b) You should consider consolidating and cleaning your
critical data about customers, suppliers and products
before going to Fusion.

6. Move to SOA-based Integration

a) Find out from Oracle what they are doing to make their
suite (EBS, PSFT, SEBL and JDE) of applications
SOA-enabled? Are they providing new capabilities in each
product to help them play in a SOA world?
b) Check out Oracle Fusion Middleware � it is a complete
product line - much more than just the application server. It
includes a process orchestration modeling tool BPEL PM,
business activity monitoring (BAM), as well as an
enterprise services bus (ESB). All these tools are known
as the SOA suite and can be used by ALL Oracle
customers today (EBS, PSFT, SEBL, JDE as well as other
point solutions such as Oracle Retail, G-Log etc... ).
c) Consider leveraging Oracle�s Application Integration
Architecture (AIA), which develops a number of Process
Industry Packs to integrate various applications products,
namely SEBL, EBS, G-Log, PSFT etc�. these can be
tailored by customers to fit their applications infrastructure.

7. Extend your Business Intelligence Portfolio

a) Adopt Oracle�s enterprise reporting, publishing & business
intelligence tool (comes with each of our Applications). All
applications have been certified with Fusion BI known as
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition or OBI EE,
which includes XML Publisher (also known as BI Publisher)
b) Start converting your reports to XMLP.Your users will love it! c) Leverage OBI EE as well as XMLP to improve and enhance
your enterprise reporting & analytics today. You will be a
head of the game - these are part of the Fusion Technology.

8. Secure your Global Enterprise by Consolidating

a) Review your custom and legacy applications. You may be
at risk not only to data fragmentations but also to security
fragmentation which could increase your security
vulnerability and security risks.
b) Start consolidating security functions by centralizing
access control (by implementing LDAP and SSO), ensuring
data privacy and enabling compliance for the entire
enterprise.
c) Externalize security functions from the applications (where
it was built by the traditional applications) to a centralized
and professionally managed security infrastructure).
d) Get ahead of the curve by using Oracle�s Fusion Security
(known as the Oracle Identity Management), knowing it is
the security infrastructure for Fusion Applications.

9. Consider Grid Computing

a) Think �Grid� at all levels before going to Fusion. Especially
in a SOA-world where services are independent, well-
defined encapsulations of software functionality that can be
invoked over a network using heterogeneous platforms and
execution environments.
i. Grid computing is about resource allocation,
information sharing & high availability at lower cost.
ii. Resource allocation ensures that all who need or
request resources are getting what they need, that
resources are not standing idle while requests are
going unserviced.
iii. Information sharing makes sure that the users and
applications need is always available.
iv. High availability features guarantee all the data and
computation is always there, just like a utility
company always provides electric power.

10. Centralize your Lifecycle Management

a) Minimize hardware, software and system management
costs by moving to Oracle�s Grid Control, also known as
the Oracle Enterprise Manager - that is the centralized
management tools that help you manage your applications,
database, middleware, operating system, storage and the
network � all from one console.
i. Oracle Enterprise Manager works with most of
Oracle�s applications, using the Applications
Management Packs. These packs reduce efforts to
manage multiple environments, allow faster discovery
and diagnosis of incidents and provide rapid
provisioning and scaling.
b) What is great about the console is that it is the very same
console that will also manage the Fusion Applications.
c) Start with Grid Control today. You will be able to plug in
your first Fusion pilot along side your EBS, PSFT or SEBL
applications as if it were just another application in your
enterprise.
d) Grid Control will be the hub of Oracle Applications Lifecycle
Management.

Is Oracle Fusion really Con-Fusion

If you ask yourself,what is Oracle Fusion then everybody will be having there own opinion. :)
I would like to hear from you all in your words ( via comments on this post ) about what you think is Oracle Fusion.
Most common confusion over fusion among most of guys i discuss/met is thinking Oracle fusion middleware and Oracle fusion applications are same...EVEN Earlier i thought the same thing, i mean i was confused of both terms.
In actual Oracle Fusion Middleware will be used in providing/building Oracle Fusion Applications using Existing Oracle Applications (Oracle E-Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft, JD Eward).


Oracle Fusion Midleware is collection of Oracle Midleware products i.e.
--Oracle Application Server (Portal, Wireless, Forms, Reports, discoverer, Webcache, OC4J)
-- Oracle Identity management (OID, SSO,Web Access Manager, CA, Identity Federation)
--Oracle SOA Suite (Service Oriented Suite)
--Oracle Collaboration Suite (RTC, Mail Server, Discussion, Content, Calendar)
--Oracle DW & BI (BI Beans, OWB, OLAP, Express Server, OSA, OFA, DATAMART)
--Oracle development Tools (Designer, developer, SCM,forms, reports)
-- Oracle Data hubs

and
Oracle Fusion Applications will be collection of Oracle Applications i.e.
--Oracle E-Business Suite / CRM
--Oracle Peoplesoft enterprise
--Oracle Siebel CRM.
--Oracle JD Edward Enterprise

These fusion applications will use Fusion Middleware mentioned above....



So in conclusion!

Oracle Fusion is the sum of already existing app development tools, re-badged and re-bunched so they look like a new product.

Oracle Fusion Applications will be the current spread, re-developed using Fusion tools.

The keyword of course is "will".

Or: nothing has changed. Therefore: no conFusion.
Pun intended.


It remains to be seen how well the j2ee-inspired development tools will cope with 8000 tables and 20000 indexes.

I'd love to see how long it would take the j2ee bean container to start up.

but roll-on the powerpoint!

Oracle Fusion Development Tools

The roadmap for Oracle Fusion strategy is becoming clearer, thanks to most recent article by Steven Chan. So the question is, what will be the development skills required by Oracle Fusion Developer?

In order to answer this, lets have a look at current skillsets required for Oracle Apps, and then map those to Oracle Fusion.

Oracle Apps : SQL
Oracle Fusion : Future is bright for SQL.


Oracle Apps : PL/SQL
Oracle Fusion : Oracle's current stance is that pl/sql will be integrated part of their Fusion Product.


Oracle Apps : XML Gateway
In Oracle Apps, you can post XML Documents to XML gateway using protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, JMS & SMTP. For example Payables Invoices can be posted to XML Gateway by your trading partners. XML Gateway can also be used for outbound XML messages, by extracting data from Views/Tables.
Oracle Fusion : BPEL
BPEL supports all the above protocols. Hence I see no reason why BPEL will nor replace XML Gateway Product.


Oracle Apps : Oracle Forms
In Oracle Apps most of the Core data entry screens and many of the inquiry screens were built using D2k Forms. Oracle Forms can't run in the browser directly, hence this limitation was overcome by developing Applet called JInitiator.
Oracle Fusion : ADF with Faces[JSF] appears to be winning the race. Have a look at http://www.jsfcentral.com

Oracle Apps : Oracle Reports
Thousands of reports have been written using Oracle Reports uptill Release 12.
Not a single one of these will be carried forward to Oracle Fusion.
Oracle Fusion : XMLP
Yes, no surprises here. It is indeed XML Publisher.
Oracle Report is proprietry tool that works just with Oracle Database. Also, Oracle would like their reporting tools to converge into a single reporting tool for Peoplesoft, JD Edwards & Oracle Apps.
XML Publisher will hopefully become as powerfull as Oracle Reports by the time Oracle Fusion is released.


Oracle Apps : OA Framework
Oracle Fusion : The answer is same as that for Oracle Forms above. However one must continue to learn OA Framework, as its concepts like Personalizations, Extensions will be carried forward to ADF. Both are MVC based topologies.


Oracle Apps : Oracle Discoverer
Oracle Fusion : I think this will remain, as Discoverer is a part of Oracle Fusion Middleware. At the end of the day, XMLP is not a business intelligence tool.


Oracle Apps : Oracle Web ADI
Oracle Fusion : XMLP. I wonder why Web ADI will be needed, as letter can be printed off using XML Publisher itself.


Oracle Apps : Oracle Workflows
Oracle Fusion : This will certainly be replaced by BPEL too.



Clearly the future is :-
Web Services with BPEL
Java/J2EE
XML/CSS/XSL/JavaScript/ADF
SQL & PL/SQL

1. When Fusion?
-->Sometime in 2008, but I don't think Fusion will be fully ready by 2008. By 2008 you will have some part of its functionality ready.

2. J2EE & Java in Fusion?
ADF is a MVC design pattern. In response to the usage of Oracle Forms, I did accept that future of ADF in Fusion is uncertain, as they might build a new framework based on peopletools UI(DHTML based).
Java will also be used to develop new webservices, although PL/SQL now has similar capabilities too.

3. IDE?
It has to be jDeveloper if they go for ADF Faces.

Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware is a portfolio of standards-based software products, produced by Oracle, that spans multiple services, including J2EE and developer tools, integration services, business intelligence, collaboration, and content management. Many of the products included under the Oracle Fusion Middleware banner are not themselves middleware products, Fusion Middleware essentially being a rebranding of many of Oracle's products outside of their core database and applications software offerings. According to Oracle, 30,000 organizations are current Fusion Middleware customers.

Oracle Fusion Middleware is designed to support development, deployment, and management of Service-Oriented Architecture. It includes what Oracle calls "Hot-Pluggable" architecture, which allows users to leverage existing investments in applications and systems from other software vendors such as IBM, Microsoft, and SAP AG.

Oracle Fusion Middleware Components

• Enterprise Application Server
  • Oracle Application Server
• Integration & Process Management
  • BPEL Process Manager
  • Business Activity Monitoring
  • Business Rules
  • Enterprise Connectivity (Adapters)
  • Enterprise Messaging Service
  • Enterprise Service Bus
  • Integration B2B
  • Service Registry
  • Web Services Manager
• Development Tools
  • Application Development Framework
  • JDeveloper
  • SOA Suite
  • TopLink
  • Forms Services
  • Developer Suite
• Business Intelligence
  • Business Intelligence 10g
  • Business Activity Monitoring
  • Discoverer
  • Data Hubs
  • XML Publisher
  • Reports Services
• Systems Management
  • Enterprise Manager 10g
  • Web Services Manager
• User Interaction
  • Collaboration Suite
  • Portal
  • Real-Time Collaboration
  • Unified Messaging
  • Workspaces
• Identity management
  • Identity Management
  • Single sign-on
• Grid Infrastructure
  • Services Registry
  • Application Server Security