Monday, July 6th, 2009
I know, I know, it’s been ages since my last post. What have I been doing all that time you may ask? Well, I’ve been working on the new release of Fusion Order Demo, helping out Collect America with their application, and co-authoring a book with Frank Nimphius – all these things were based on builds that weren’t externally available, and so it didn’t seem fair to post something that wasn’t possible for the public to actually use. Now that the R1 launch is complete, I have something to share!
I watched the R1 launch event (catch the replay here) with what I gather is the same amount of pride that parents have when sending their children off to college – we raised this product from infancy and it’s now ready to face the world. Hoorah! Jennifer Briscoe from Collect America was on-hand at the launch event to share their success story – they’re now production with their shiny new application developed with JDeveloper and ADF 11g. It’s been great working with them – they are a talented team and its nice to know that one of our best references for ADF resides in Denver.
Fusion Order Demo got a major revamping for the R1 release. I polished up the use of ADF features across the demo (ADF Business Components, ADF Controller, and ADF Faces), and wired up the store front part of the application to call the SOA composites, written by Clemens Utschig. Its no longer “just” a useful demo for customers and our documentation writers, as its now used as a vehicle for sanity testing across the Fusion Middleware stack. And again, there’s pride sneaking in…but seriously, I spent many an evening working on that demo when I could’ve been out doing something fun. All in all its been a great experience working on FOD – you never TRULY learn a feature unless you have to use it practically. Or write about it. Which leads to the book…but I’ll leave that for another post, which will certainly be coming at you with less delay than the last one! Geesh!