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.. or keep your cool and embrace Solaris.

When Oracle acquired Sun, IBM tried to capitalize the situation just like every other competitor Sun had – doubts were raised about Oracle's ability to turn Sun's hardware business around, and Solaris customers were advised to flee SPARC. Fast forward four years .. Oracle appears to have successfully dispelled the doubts with proven long-term commitment to the Solaris/SPARC business with consistent investment and delivery on established roadmaps. Besides, Oracle has been innovating in the server space with engineered systems that are pre-integrated to reduce the cost and complexity of IT infrastructures while increasing productivity and performance.

On the other hand, judging by the recent turn of events at IBM such as selling off critical server technologies, decline in data center business, employee furloughs, layoffs etc., it appears that Big Blue has its own struggles to deal with. In any case, irrespective of what is happening at IBM, AIX customers who are contemplating to migrate to a modern operating platform that is reliable, secure, cloud-ready and offers a rich set of features to virtualize, consolidate, diagnose, debug and most importantly scale and perform, have an attractive alternative — Oracle Solaris. Act before it is too late.

Unfortunately migrating larger deployments from one platform to another is not as easy as migrating desktop users from one operating system to another. So, Oracle put together a bunch of documents to make the AIX to Solaris transition as smooth as possible for the existing AIX customers. Access the AIX-to-Solaris migration pages at:

     http://www.oracle.com/aixtosolaris
     Modernizing IBM AIX/Power to Oracle Solaris/SPARC (Oracle Technology Network)

The above pages have pointers to white papers such as IBM AIX to Oracle Solaris Technology Mapping Guide (for system admins, power users), Simplify the Migration of Oracle Database and Oracle Applications from AIX to Oracle Solaris (for DBAs, application specific admins) and IBM AIX Technologies Compared to Oracle Solaris 11 along with hands-on labs, training, blogs and other useful resources. Check those out, and use the contact information available in those pages to speak or chat with relevant Oracle team(s) who can help get started with the migration process. Good luck.

작년자바원에발표된 Java ME Embedded Early Access 버전에이어, Java ME Embedded 8 Early Access 2가릴리즈되었다.

이번에릴리즈된 Early Access 2의가장큰특징은 Raspberry Pi 이외에, Qualcomm IoT 디바이스용으로도같이릴리즈되었다는것이다. 현재지원되는HW는아래와같다.

lRaspberry Pi Model B (ARM11/Linux)

lQualcomm IoE (ARM9/Brew MP)

lWindows (via Java ME SDK)

각 binary와 document를받을수있는링크는아래와같다.

lBinary Download
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javame/javamobile/download/sdk/index.html

lJava ME SDK 8 Early Access 2
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javame/javamobile/download/sdk/java-embedded-me-sdk-8ea-download-2015112.html

lDocumentation
http://docs.oracle.com/javame/embedded/embedded.html

Java ME Embedded 8

Java ME Embedded 8을간단히소개하자면, Oracle이작은Embedded Device를위해만든 Platform이고, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4를거쳐, version 8으로발전하였다.

3.4에서 8으로 version numbering의큰변화를준것은, 바로이버전이올해예정되어있는 Java SE 8과같은연결선상에있기때문이다. 기존의 Java ME Embedded 3.x의 Language나 API가 SUN Microsystems 시절의 Java SE 1.3을기본으로하고있다면, Java ME Embedded 8의경우, Language나 API 등여러측면에서 Java SE 8을기반으로새롭게구성이되어있다.

다시말하면, 기존에는 Java SE 와 Java ME 간의 code 호환성이떨어졌기때문에, 서로간의라이브러리교환이어려웠다면, 지금은완벽하지는않지만, 많은 code들이 Java SE와 ME 구분없이사용가능할것으로본다.

Java ME Embedded에대해서는앞선 blog에서이미설명을하였기때문에, 이번에는 ME Embedded 8 만의특징을다루어보기로하겠다.

우선 Java ME Embedded는크게 CLDC 8(Connected Limited Device Configuration) 과 MEEP 8(ME Embedded Profile)로나뉜다. CLDC의경우, Java ME Embedded의심장, 자동차로말하면엔진에해당하는부분이고, MEEP는기타 Embedded 환경에맞추어필요한부가기능이라고보면되겠다.

이런기본구조위에, 아래그림과같이여러기능을제공하는 API들을제공해준다.

[그림 1 Java ME 8 Platform Overview]

Shared Library & Service Provider

Java ME Embedded 8 에서가장눈에띄는기능은 Shared Library와 Service Provider 모델이다.

기존 Java ME App의경우,자신의 Application Package를벗어나다른Java Library를동적으로로딩하거나참조하는것이불가능하였지만, Shared Library를통해이제 Library를다운로드받아서사용하고, 다른 Application과공유하는것이가능해졌다.

그리고, Service Provider 모델을통해, 추상화된 API의 Service를통해서, 여러 Service Provider들로부터서로다른구현이된라이브러리들을선택할수있는구조를가지게되었다.

이두가지기능을통해서, Application의부분업데이트및 library 공유등이가능해졌다.

[그림 2 Java ME 8: A Service-Enabled Platform]

GCF 8

CLDC 8의경우, GCF (Generic Connection Framework)의업그레이드가눈에띈다.

아래는 CLDC 8에서지원하는 Connection API 들이다.

lSecureServerConnection

lSecureDatagramConnection

lModemConnection

lUDPMulticastConnection

lCommConnection

lHttpConnection

lHttpsConnection

lSecureConnection

lServerSocketConnection

lSocketConnection

lUDPDatagramConnection

다른 GCF의추가된기능들을정리해보면다음과같다

lIPv6

lUDP Multicast

lTLS protocol enhancements

lDTLS protocol support for TLS over UDP

lNetwork Utilities like ping

lModem Connection

lConnection options/parameters support

lAccess Point

다양한 Network API들과보안관련된부분이보완되었다.

MEEP 8

MEEP 8의가장큰특징은다양한 device의footprint에맞추기위해, 3개의 profile set으로구분이되었다는것이다. 각 profile별로요구되는메모리사이즈도다르고, 포함되는기능들도다르기때문에, 각디바이스제조사들이자신에게주어진디바이스환경과기능에맞추어선택할수있는폭이넓어졌다. 각 profile의 footprint와기능들은아래그림을참조하시길바란다.

[그림 3 MEEP 8 Profiles]

이외에, 디바이스환경에맞는여러 API들이 option으로선택가능해졌고, 아래 API들을나열해보았다.

lJavax.microedition.swm – software management

lJavax.microedition.cellular – cellular network information

lJavax.microedition.event

lJavax.microedition.power – power management

lJavax.microedition.io – GCF based io

lJavax.microedition.lui – line based ui

lJavax.microedition.key – device key input

lJavax.microedition.media – audio support

lJavax.microedition.rms – data store

Security

앞으로 IoT가활성화되면, 누구나가걱정하는것이바로보안문제일것이다. Java ME Embedded 8의경우, 특히보안에대해많이고민하고, Application 설치부터동작및통신에까지높은보안환경을제공하고있다.

아래는 ME 8의 Application 설치과정을도식화한것이다. Authentication Provider, Security Policy Provider들이 Application 설치과정에서안전한설치를돕는다.

[그림 4 Application Provisioning & Management]

Java ME 8의보안과관련된기능들을아래간단히나열해보면아래와같다.

lTrust Model

lRuntime Security

lSecurity Services – Advanced Cryptography and PKI, TLS 1.2 support

혹시, 영어에자신이있거나, 좀더자세한내용을확인을원하시는분은아래 Terrence Barr의동영상과 Slide 링크가있으���참조하시기바란다.

“Introduction into Java Micro Edition (ME) 8″

“Java ME 8 and The Rise of the Internet of Things”

The February 2014 edition of the Oracle Linux Newsletter is now available! This issue has some fantastic stories on OCFS2, Ksplice, using Oracle Database with Oracle Linux, new customer success stories, and much more!

To help you prepare for the upcoming Release 8, we are pleased to share a preview of over 400 new, modern business-empowering features.

Simply visit the new Release 8 Readiness page, under the Resources menu on Oracle Cloud web portal, where you'll find the following preview content:

• Spotlights: Webcasts delivered by Oracle Development, which spotlight top-level messages and product themes, reinforced with product demos.
• Release Content Documents (RCDs): Learn what's new in the upcoming release by reviewing summary descriptions of each new feature and product.
• What's New: Learn what's new in the upcoming release by reviewing expanded discussions of each new feature and product, including capability overviews, business benefits, setup considerations, usage tips, and more.

Check the page often, as new training material and spotlights will be added over the coming weeks. Oracle Applications - Empowering Modern Business in the Cloud!

Java ME Embedded Early Access (EA) 2 is an update to the first Java ME Embedded 8 EA release in September 2013. The   EA 2 release is an implementation of the Java ME 8 standard (based on the Java ME Connected Limited Device Configuration   (CLDC) 8 and Java ME Embedded Profile (MEEP) 8.

Download Java ME 8 Early Access 2 - Learn More - Download the SDK (Includes Java ME 8 Early Access) !

Double click on User Task and edit "Data Associations".

At the "Output" tab, get the task id and run "getPreviousTaskApprover" function.

These steps are:

1 - Create and associate "TaskId" attribute.

2 - Use this formula: "hwf:getPreviousTaskApprover(bpmn:getDataObject('TaskId'))"

Intel is supporting Engineered Systems opportunities, investing up to 25 K$ per opportunity to execute POC’s, Architecture Studies, POP’s… to position Engineered Systems (Intel will pay 50% of the tasks).

An additional 10% support from Intel is dedicated to projects that include Storage ZS3 attached to Engineered Systems.

To learn more about  the program and how to use this funding with Oracle Partners, we invite you to join our Webcast on Thursday, 6th March 2014 at 10:30am UK / 11:30am CET.

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We have put together another whitepaper to help when using the Groovy language in making customizations to pages and fields using Application Composer. This was done in response to observing the online forums and the requests logged with Oracle Support. It covers many common requirements and provides short illustrative examples.We hope you find it useful.

And just like with our EL whitepaper it will get regularly updated, so if you have any other examples please pass them on either via email or in the comments box below.

Hi all, let me inform you that NetBeans 8.0 RC1 is out! Enjoy it!

The Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE) 11g 11.1.1.7.140225 Bundle Patch is now available to download via My Oracle Support | Patches & Updates. 

This is provided as single Bundle Patch Patch 18057570 and is comprised of the following:

• Patch 16913445 - 1 of 8 Oracle BI Installer (BIINST)
• Patch 18057680 - 2 of 8 Oracle BI Publisher (BIP)
• Patch 17891247 - 3 of 8 EPM Components Installed from BI Installer 11.1.1.7.0 (BIFNDNEPM)
• Patch 18057654 - 4 of 8 Oracle BI Server (BIS)
• Patch 17922596 - 5 of 8 Oracle BI Foundation (BIFDN)
• Patch 17300045 - 6 of 8 Oracle Real-Time Decisions (RTD)
• Patch 16997936 - 7 of 8 Oracle BI ADF Components (BIADFCOMPS)
• Patch 18057667 - 8 of 8 Oracle BI Platform Client Installers and MapViewer

NOTE: Also required to be downloaded:

Patch 16569379 - Dynamic Monitoring Service patch

This patch set is available for all customers who are using Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition 11.1.1.7.0, 11.1.1.7.1, 11.1.1.7.131017 and 11.1.1.7.140114.  It is also available for Exalytics customers who have applied the Exalytics PS3 patch.

For more information refer to:

OBIEE 11g 11.1.1.7.140225 Bundle Patch is Available for OBIEE and Exalytics
Doc ID 1626928.1

 The OBIEE Suite Bundle Patches are cumulative - the content of the previous 11.1.1.7.x bundle patches are included in this latest bundle patch.

Ensure to review the Readme documentation for further important patch information.  This is available via the My Oracle Support | Patches & Updates screen when downloading.

Keep up to-date with the latest OBIEE Patches and Patch Set Updates by visiting

OBIEE 11g: Required and Recommended Patches and Patch Sets
[Doc ID 1488475.1]

Oracle ACE Director Lonneke Dikmans, managing partner at Vennster, discusses the advantages of running Oracle SOA Suite on Oracle Data Appliance, the focus of O-Box Products, a collaborative venture involving several other Oracle ACE Directors.

Connect with Lonneke:

Articles by Lonneke Dikmans

• Classification of Services
  A free sample chapter from SOA Made Simple, by Lonneke Dikmans and Ronald van Luttikhuizen.
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  Lonneke shows you how to create and execute a set of repeatable tests on a BPEL process using the Oracle BPEL Test Framework, part of Oracle BPEL Process Manager.

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I was wondering when I entered in the Exhibitors Halls, if I was really at the mobile world congress or at a World Wide Automotive Show. Nearly every booth has a car to demonstrate a mobile phone on wheels… But for Oracle: we do have a boat! We demonstrate how the usage of the 300 sensors embedded in the America’s Cup sailing boat, can drive real-time human decisions. Of course, this is one of the many use cases we do have. I won’t go through the entire list from communications, connected cars to smart grids, analytic and Cloud enable mobile applications. I will rather focus on a rather interesting embedded topic as the trend around IoT (Internet of Things) is huge.

I already touch on this during my last OOW blog. As we are in a (very) small world (i.e. the device can be very small), the BOM (bill of material) needs to be at the right price, the right energy consumption and provide a very long life cycle: you don’t want your car to break after one year, or to face complex upgrades every 6 months and be connected (physically) with your repair shop too often. That’s where Java comes into play, because it provides the right footprint, management and life cycle. The new thing we are showing today is Java TEE (Trusted Execution Environment) integrated in hardware. This brings security inside the device by providing a secure store for your keys. As security is a major concern in IoT, especially for large industrial projects like connected Cars, Smart Grid, Smart Energy or even Healthcare. You don’t want your devices to be temper, either for 1) safety reason or 2) frauds. And Java is very good in all IoT uses cases, even for stronger security requirement, that for example, Gemalto is implementing with it.

To help you get there, Gemalto's Cinterion concept board enables you to quickly prototype your embedded devices and connect them securely (even your dart board)...

On the other side of those devices, you have you!…. That needs to make enrich decisions… That’s where data (and analytics) comes into play. And for this part, I invite you to join us in Paris, on March 19^th on a special event around Data Challenges for Business. Ganesh Ramamurthy, Oracle VP Software Development in our Engineering System group will be with us to explain what Oracle Systems brings to manage and analyze all your Data. He will be with Cofely Services - GDF Suez, Bouygues Telecom and Centre Hospitalier de Douai, who will share their experiences.

Oracle again has a big presence at Embedded Worldin Nuremberg, Germany again this year. 

Find us in hall 5, booth 271. At the booth, you can see several demos focusing on Oracle’s Internet of Things strategy and the benefits of Java for embedded software solutions, including showcase applications by partners such as Gemalto, Freescale, Eurotech, and Hitachi.

Java Evangelist Terrence Barr will be doing some sessions as well (download the full conference program here):

• Thu, Feb 27, 9:30: A hands-on tutorial on“Desktop to Internet of Things in 12 Seconds with Java ME Embedded”

• Thu, Feb 27, 15:30:“Trust Me, I am an M2M Device”

This year’s demonstrations will include:

By John Foley - Originally posted on Forbes

It’s not enough to “empower” employees. If companies truly want to unleash an empowered workforce, they need a new generation of human capital management tools that are designed to enable that, Larry Ellison said at Oracle HCM World last week.

“Getting people to connect—to the company, to one another—makes for a much more satisfied and productive workforce, which is very different from how we looked at HCM before,” Oracle’s CEO said in a February 6 keynote presentation at HCM World in Las Vegas.

What’s needed is a modern HCM system—one that’s cloud-based, social and mobile by design, and used by everyone in the company, Ellison said. He then pulled up a chair and took questions from the hundreds of human resources (HR) execs that had packed into the conference center.

“How does Oracle compete for talent?” they asked. “How does the company bring new employees into the fold?”“What are the implications of technology on human behavior?”“What drives you personally?”

It was a probing and enlightening exchange on the emergence of HR as the central nervous system for a business and on the complex organizational dynamics that come with that. In this expanded role, HCM has emerged as one of the two most important enterprise applications, along with customer service, according to Ellison. “It’s all about people,” he said.

At HCM World, speakers from Accenture, CEB’s Corporate Leadership Council, Elizabeth Arden, Hitachi, KPMG, PwC, Siemens, Verizon, and other companies talked about the challenges and opportunities they face in leading HR through this unprecedented transformation. For my roundup of the highlights from this three-day brainstorming session, see “10 Trends Driving The Mandate For Modern HCM.”

Ellison recently called employees a company’s “most precious assets.” During the open Q&A session at HCM World, he talked about the importance of holding onto that hard-won talent. “If people don’t feel they’re improving their skills and moving ahead in the organization, you’re not going to keep them,” he said.

Note the pivotal word in that statement—if employees don’t feel they’re on the right track, they’re at greater risk of leaving. As it turns out, employee retention is one of the many areas where a modern HCM system can help. If one part of the business has an unusually high turnover rate, the HCM system’s analytics capabilities can flag the situation and prompt action.

With 125,000 employees, Oracle knows these challenges first hand. When employees do leave, Ellison said, they generally go to startups or small companies where they hope to make a bigger difference. “I believe people have to follow their dreams—I did,” he said.

Such entrepreneurial pursuits don’t always pan out, but they provide valuable lessons and experience, which make those risk takers good candidates for future openings, Ellison said.

Some of the questions veered away from HR. One person in the audience asked about Ellison’s plans for Lanai, the Hawaiian island he purchased, or most of it, in 2012.  Ellison talked of plans to demonstrate the feasibility of green energy—sun, wind, and liquefied natural gas—and of other investments in infrastructure and schools.

Then, in response to a question about technology’s impact on human behavior, Ellison pointed to the recently released movie “Her,” in which the main character develops a relationship with an artificial-intelligence program that has a female persona. The Academy Award-nominated film was co-produced by Megan Ellison, Larry’s daughter.

“Be careful about virtual relationships with artificially intelligent pieces of software,” Ellison joked with the audience.

As far-fetched as that may sound, there is—or someday may be—an HR angle to consider. Siri is now a major feature in Apple’s iOS operating system, virtual reality has become mainstream, and robots are replacing humans for some tasks. Bertrand Dussert, Oracle VP of HCM Transformation and Thought Leadership, tells me that cognitive computing and robotics should be on HR’s watch list.

Ellison warned that teenagers waste too much time playing video games, at the expense of real-world experiences.  “Where does it end?” he asked. (As the parent of a high school student who spends hours on Xbox, I would love to know the answer!)

At the same time, tech can also have a “fabulous” impact on millennials, Ellison said. Indeed, tech-savvy kids will grow into the future workforce that HR recruiters will someday fight over, which is the subject of my article, “Kids, Code, And The Future Of Technology.”

As employees move along their career path, it’s important that businesses nurture professional development in ways that motivate and inspire them. “You have to have an environment where they enjoy what they’re doing,” Ellison said.

Oracle’s founder talked about his own pursuit of goals, and how he has tested and stretched his own limits along the way.  “That’s really what drives me—this process of discovery,” he said.

The world got to see how exciting that can be in September when Oracle Team USA won the America’s Cup in stunning, come-from-behind fashion. But Ellison’s “change the world” (his words) approach has always been manifest in Oracle’s business, too.

“How many insanely great products can you bring out?” he said, a rhetorical question that provides some insight into how that happens.

No doubt, this kind of personal journey and professional realization, often woven together, are important to all of us. Modern HCM can help by encouraging employees to raise their visibility, pursue opportunities, team up with a mentor (or become one), and collaborate across departments and geographies.

A Call To Action

In this new way of working, the HR department plays a central and much more strategic role. “In a modern company, HR takes on expanded responsibility for team building and enabling teamwork,” Ellison said.

He pointed to Oracle’s internal HR team as a case in point: “What is Oracle? It’s people. We rely on our HR department to build this organization, to help find those people, to help grow those people.”

As the session wound down, Ellison concluded with a statement about the vital role of HR that might also be interpreted as a call to action.

“HR can fundamentally change the destiny of the company,” he said, and then added: “If they can help us find, grow, and retain people, they basically are the key enablers to our success.”

There’s that word “if” again. It’s up to HR leaders to change the discussion from if to when.

John Foley is director, strategic communications, for Oracle Corp., where he provides insights and analysis on cloud computing, big data, IT-driven business innovation, and Oracle’s portfolio of ‘engineered to work together’ hardware and software products. He was previously the Editor of InformationWeek and InformationWeek Government. You can follow him on Twitter at @jfoley09.

Feels like it's been a long while since I wrote up an article for OTN, so I'm pleased that I've finally got around to fixing that.

I've written about RAW hazards in the past. But I recently went through a patch of discovering them in a number of places, so I've written up a full article on them.

What is "nice" about RAW hazards is that once you recognise them for what they are (and that's the tricky bit), they are typically easy to avoid. So if you see 10 seconds of time attributable to RAW hazards in the profile, then you can often get the entire 10 seconds back by tweaking the code.

"I do have to pick my priorities. Nobody can do everything." (Ray Kurzweil) 

Find more information about the Oracle Service Cloud February 2014 release by watching the Oracle Service Cloud – February 2014 Release Overview video which is 18' long and requires a webex account.

You may also want to read and download the release data sheet here

This was a complete surprise to me. A box arrived on my doorstep, and inside were copies of Multicore Application Programming in Chinese. They look good, and have a glossy cover rather than the matte cover of the English version.