For those of you still sitting on the 10g fence ... or if you're new to Publisher 11g, take advantage of this educational opportunity:

Oracle BI Publisher 11g R1: Fundamentals

Learn To:

    Create data models by using the Data Model Editor.
    Create BI Publisher reports based on data models.
    Create report layouts by using the Layout Editor (online).
    Create reports based on OBI EE data sources.
    Publish the reports on OBI EE Dashboards.
    Schedule reports and burst these reports.

Date: 01-JUL-13

.cmd { font-family: "Courier New"; } There are bunch of graphical tools helping you to look inside of running JVM (VisualVm and JConsole are extremely helpful). Unfortunately, some times (almost always in my case), you may find yourself in SSH console on headless server side by side with your JVM process, trying to investigate problem.

Yesterday I participated in a Special Interest Group meeting organised by the UK Oracle User Group on ADF Mobile. 

As part of my session I concentrated on building an ADF Mobile application from the ground up based on grabbing JSON data from Hudson. This demo shows the core techniques for dealing with URL based data and parsing the same. Several folks at the event had asked for the demo code so I've packaged and uploaded onto the ADF EMG Code Samples Repository: