Update from Oracle OpenWorld, November 15th18th 1999, Los Angeles

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Update from Oracle OpenWorld, November 15th-18th
1999,Los Angeles

• Eric Grancher IT/DB

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The conference

• 18'000 attendees 500 technical sessions 120
  hands-on sessions 300 exhibitors biggest
  Oracle event ever
• Campground panel sessions ask Oracle
  sessions were very efficient places to retrieve
  information
• Few sessions about Y2k -)

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RDBMS

• Lot of sessions related to tuning and VLDB
• 8iR2 (8.1.6) announced at the conference, mostly
  bug fixes integration of external products
  (OID, XML)
• New Enterprise Manager (version 2.1)
• OPS widely used (even internally)
• 40 TB database are used

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iFS

• File are stored as LOB, indexed using InterMedia
• Automatic extraction of properties and indexing
  of documents
• Accessible using SMTP/IMAP4, SMB/CIFS, HTTP (both
  file management and administration)
• Security based on the database, ACLs can be used
• Makes use of transactions, check-in/check-out,
  file versioning
• API to extend iFS (from new content type to
  renderer)
• Beta 2 (C rewrite) was about to be released (now
  out)

IMAP4
Net8
Oracle8i/iFS
SMB
HTTP
CIFS
Win95
WinNT
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WebDB
Create DB objects Create reports Create
forms Create menus

• WebDB version 3 seems to be the version to go,
  manageability has been increased
• virtual users
• several applications in one account
• authentication via LDAP (OID), common for
  RDBMSWebDB
• future release will store documents in iFS
• Its not just for simple applications anymore
• 2000Q2?

HTTP
WebDB
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JDeveloper

• 2 versions
• JDeveloper
• Java IDE (JBuilder from Inprise) BC4J, SQLJ,
  JDBC, EJB, Java in the RDBMS, Servlet
• JDeveloper Enterprise Edition
• UML modeler
• shares it repository with Designer
• Several modelers case, activity, type,
  component, package, database designer
• Several generators instant Java, server model,
  server generator, BC4J.
• No merging with Designer
• Mid 2000?

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Java in the RDBMS

• direct calls to Java Stored Proc via HTTP in
  8.1.7 (JSP Servlets), release 2000Q3?
• JAccelerator, translation of the bytecode into
  ANSI C, native compilation, link with DLL at
  execution. Released with 8.2 (2001Q1?)

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OAS

• No big news
• New cartridges, JWeb replaced by JServlet
• PL/SQL cartridge will stay forever, manager
  said
• Sessions on tuning for the web (99)

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XML

• Using XML within the RDBMS has been drastically
  enhanced
• Java, PL/SQL and C parsers
• XML SQL utility
• XSQL Server

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Developer / Designer

• Designer (2000Q1?) and Developer (2000Q2?) will
  go version 6i (6.5)
• Designer 6i configuration management, impact
  analysis
• Developer developer server, Java, EJB and
  Advanced Queuing integration
• Designer to generate web applications

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Directions

• WebDB
• JDeveloper
• Java (but PL/SQL will stay forever and is still
  enhanced)
• iFS
• OPS small of fatter nodes
• Refocus on core and externalize
• Few about ORDBMS
• Business oriented portals/portlets

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Proceedings on the web

• http//www.oracle.com/openworld/index2.html
• Report (with link to some papers)
• http//home.cern.ch/grancher/oug/ioug/oow1999.html
  
• (PL/SQL performance, finding the performance
  bottleneck in your application, Java for PL/SQL
  programmer, WebDB3 preview, XML in the server,
  OAS tuning...)