A short presentation delivered with Phil Wilkins from Specsavers to the UKOUG Application Server & Middleware SIG on 9 October 14 at Oracle Thames Valley Park offices.

1. OpenWorld Highlights for Fusion Middleware Admins
Simon Haslam, Veriton
Phil Wilkins, Specsavers

2. Oracle Cloud Services
Keynote from Larry was all cloud, cloud, cloud!
More SaaS than anyone else
◦announced dozens of services in the last year
◦probably hundreds across all the sectors
Platform upgrade
◦data as a service (BlueKai acquisition)
◦some of these offerings included capabilities that sounded like enterprise Dropbox
Data migration of data or app on-premise to/from cloud push of a button
Innovation for securing the cloud at lowest levels
B2C and B2B capabilities

3. Cloud (Middleware)
Integration Cloud Service
◦Web UI for integration (OSB underneath)
◦Ethos change: no deployment - develop and promote to production
◦Automated mappings (can be overridden) when going between own cloud services or Oracle adaptors to 3rd party
◦Can build own mappings & incorporate own functionality
◦One-way migration to on-premise OSB

7. Cloud (Middleware)
Process Cloud Service
SOA Suite as a hosted solution
Java Cloud Service
IaaS (compute, storage)
◦‘priced to compete with Amazon/Google’

8. SOA
SOA 12c re-cap
Support for JSON and REST all way through SOA rather than transformational capability only
More cloud adaptors coming
API inventory and discovery capabilities coming
◦API Catalog / API Manager
◦successor to OES
More ‘industrial SOA’ coming

9. Mobile Application Framework
Seems to have crept up quietly
◦successor to ADF mobile in the form of MAF Faces
Hybrid strategy like Phone Gap but enables Java in a container on Andriod & iOS (but Jobs said…)
MAF actually incorporates Apache Cordova
◦(open source version of PhoneGap)
a new UI presentation style – Alta

10. WebLogic – on horizon
Now: JDK 8 certification with 12.1.3
WebLogic multi-tenant
MAA active-active
Full Java EE 7
‘Zero downtime’ patching
Dynamic cluster enhancements
Expansion of REST management APIs

12. …as a Service
Old name
New name
What it is
WebLogic/Java as a Service
Java Cloud Service
WebLogic on the cloud
Java Cloud Service Virtual Image
Single instance WebLogic, e.g. for dev
Oracle Java Cloud
Java Cloud Service SaaS Extension
Walled garden WebLogic env (single or cluster)

13. Enterprise Manager 12c R4
(today’s theme)

14. Expect lots of slides like this…

15. Tidbits showing future direction
‘Software on silicon’
Nimbula & OpenStack

16. OpenWorld Highlights for Fusion Middleware Admins
Simon Haslam, Veriton
Phil Wilkins, Specsavers