Working with webcenter and sharepoint

Just kidding its not all that bad

Via Programmer’s life (cartoon)

So recently I didn’t have much luck convincing the Oracle AppsLab Team to start creating Adobe AIR desktop applications for Webcenter Spaces The good news is however they are creating browser extensions which are just as good and not only for 1 browser. It looks like they have been working on Chrome, Safari and firefox!

I`m not sure if I can make OOW this year.. 50/50 I`ll be going but if any of you do go. Go check out the AppsLab team booth and see what great things they have been doing..

So your probably all going I don’t know flex, AIR is rubbish what’s the point its all flash. Flash is probably going to die in 4 years time or so unless they make something cool there is no point in looking at AIR.

Well I would agree on the above points.. But wait.. AIR supports CSS3 and HTML 5 using the Webkit engine and you don`t need to know any flash flex you can simply use html javascript. AIR works cross platform - smartphones, smartbooks, tablets, netbooks, and PCs - on Windows, Mac, Linux you just need the air engine running.  It also has other benefits  - The javascript engine is 50% faster! There is mass storage detection to synchronise your files like photos, mp3s etc - Support for local DB environment upto 1 TB on mySQLLite or you could use HTML5 offline storage!

So this weekend I set the challenge to go ahead and create my first AIR application for WebCenter connecting via ajax to the REST services.

It took me all weekend but it’s done!

So what monster did I create? Mwuhahahahahahaha!!

Well it’s nothing special  - I connected to the REST People Connections API to bring back all the user details I`m connected with. And to display the data I used the Sencha JS Framework formerly known as EXT JS. This allowed me to order display and find connections quickly. View Quick Demo …

I`m really excited with whats happening with Sencha - they have joined forces with JQTouch expanding EXTs potential on touch devices; iphone, android, ipad you name it!! It all looking so good.. There just isn’t enough time to keep up with technology..

A quick headups -

I`m too busy with WebCenter to blog about this  - so head over to Fishbowl Solutions for more info.

http://cfour.fishbowlsolutions.com/2010/06/08/oracle-ucm-11g-is-here-announcements-and-useful-links/

Useful Links::

11g Documentation can be found here

11g UCM OTN downloads can be found here or you can download via the Oracle eDelivery system here: http://edelivery.oracle.com under FMW 11g –> Media Pack (MAY-13-2010 update) –>V21123-01 Oracle Enterprise Content Management 11g (11.1.1.3.0)

The OTN ECM 11g page is here — Download Links appear to be down (404) today from OTN?

The oracle.com page with videos and other explainer content is here.

New blogger on the scene - another RSS feed to get added!

The Oracle Mack

Early days so keep watching..

Just in..
For those of you fedup of no colour coding or code completion within the UCM component manager - Arnoud Koot at Oracle has released a nice free extension for notepad++

[Via Kyle's Blog on Universal Content Management]

Download a copy of the extension here.