UKOUG 2008
Birmingham
This year's UKOUG annual conference in Birmingham has a strong stream of middleware sessions running from Tuesday to Thursday. There's plenty of content for BEA, especially WebLogic users, including a new BEA User's Round Table.

Simon Haslam from Veriton will be presenting two papers:

Practical ADF Application Deployment for Fusion Middleware Administrators
4th Dec, 13:55 - 14:40, Hall 7a

How to use Fast Connection Failover to Improve Application Resilience
4th Dec, 17:30 - 18:15, Hall 11a

Both sessions will have live demonstrations so expect them to be high adrenaline (for the presenter!).

UKOUG App Server
& Middleware SIG
Slides from the last Special Interest Group are available from the UKOUG website. This also included Simon's Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Server 10g R3: Installation and Configuration presentation.

JDeveloper / ADF 11g

The production release of JDeveloper and ADF 11g is now available - see the OFM admin blog entry.

If you are embarking on a new ADF project don't consider any other version now. If you could like ADF strategy advice or guidance, with no obligation, please call.

Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3

WebLogic 10.3, the JEE 5 certified release, is now available. This will become the JEE container at the heart of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g and it is well worth OAS admins investing time to become familiar with its installation and configuration.

New features are described on Oracle's website.