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• Announcement: Legacy BEA Newsgroups Migrated to Oracle Discussion Forums
  Legacy Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Newsgroups have migrated to forums.oracle.com in the form of a searchable, read-only archive.
• Tech Article: Implementing Cell Highlighting in JSF-based Rich Enterprise Apps
  Help your end-users digest information by implementing cell highlighting in your rich enterprise applications. From Oracle ACE Director Lucas Jellema.
• Guide: Build Your Own Oracle Extended RAC Cluster on Oracle VM and Oracle Enterprise Linux
  Learn how to create a cheap but fully functional Oracle Extended RAC implementation in a virtualized environment, step by step. (Not validated by Oracle; for educational purposes only.)
• Announcement: My Oracle Support Community Launches
  The latest addition to the My Oracle Support platform, My Oracle Support Community is an integrated, multi-channel online collaboration portal that leverages the latest Web 2.0 technologies to provide access to a vast knowledge repository.
• Tech White Paper: Redeveloping an Oracle Forms App using Oracle ADF 11g
  When redevelopment is necessary, the concepts used in a Forms application can be mapped to the Java platform using Oracle JDeveloper and ADF. This technical case study illustrates this process.
• How-Tos: Best New Oracle Database 11g Features
  Oracle ACE Director Arup Nanda's 20-part series of how-tos about top new features for DBAs and developers is now complete—spanning Schema Management, Caching and Pooling, Data Warehousing & OLAP, and much more.
• Technical Article: How to Develop, Maintain, and Support a Quality Management and Development Process
  Get an overview of real-world testing methodologies, as well as a getting-started introduction to Oracle Test Manager for Web Applications.
• Download: Oracle JDeveloper 11g Production
  Oracle JDeveloper 11g showcases new features to provide a full development environment for Java EE 5, and rounded out with new features for Ajax developers, including new ADF Faces Rich Client components as well as JavaScript editing and debugging. Web services development is also greatly improved.
• New JD Edwards Best Practice Center
  Come here to start creating SOA with your JD Edwards EnterpriseOne applications. "Best Practices" are offered for how to service-enable JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Business Services, and then build integrations, business processes and composite applications using Fusion Middleware technology.

Technical content and news from java.sun.com, the premier source of information about the Java platform.

• 2009 Annual Developer Quiz
  Test your knowledge of Java developments in 2009.
• Introducing the Java EE 6 Platform: Part 1
  Learn about the significant new technologies, usability improvements, and other compelling enhancements in Java EE 6.
• What's New in JavaFX 1.2: Charts
  This third article in a series describes how to use the different JavaFX charts with the StockReaderFX example application.
• New in JavaFX 1.2: RSS and Storage
  This second article in a series covers the more technical features, such as RSS and Atom tasks and local storage using JavaFX's built-in storage classes.
• Deep Dive Video: Java Warehouse and Java Store
  Join Bernard Traversat, Director of Engineering for the Java Store, as he discusses and demonstrates the latest advancement in Java technology: the consumer Java Store and the Java Warehouse for developers.
• Tech Tip: Using CDI and Dependency Injection for Java in a JSF 2.0 Application
  Explore an application that illustrates the use of three powerful technologies in the Java EE 6 platform: Contexts and Dependency Injection, Dependency Injection For Java, and JavaServer Faces 2.0.
• MIDP 3.0 Features: Inter-MIDlet Communication and Events
  Learn about two major enhancements in the Mobile Information Device Profile (MIDP) 3.0 specification that will be the foundation of next-generation mobile applications.
• A Java Developer's Quiz: Part Three
  Test your knowledge and get an update on recent developments in Java technology.
• Simple Strategy for Logging and Monitoring of MIDlets
  On-device debugging isn't useful when your MIDlet is running on a client's phone. This tech tip presents one approach for developers who want a fast and simple way to debug their apps remotely in real environments.
• Oracle Develop Offers Updates on Java Technology
  Oracle Develop, sponsored by Sun Microsystems, and a part of Oracle OpenWorld 2009 begins on Sunday, October 11, and provides Java technology sessions from Sun's leading developers.
• Introducing Java DB 10.5.1
  The latest version of Java DB is fast, reliable, and packed with features.
• destroyApp() Is Your Friend
  How do you protect yourself from unsafe operations of third-party libraries? Concurrency, data safety, and the destroyApp() method are three ways to do so, according to this tech tip.
• Java Device Test Framework
  This brief screencast introduces JDTF, a flexible, configurable test framework that can be used to assess various aspects of the quality of Java ME device implementations.
• Tech Tip: Locking and Concurrency in Java Persistence 2.0
  Pessimistic locking is now supported. Learn about this and the other new and enhanced locking and concurrency features in JPA 2.0.
• Java Champion Kirk Pepperdine on Performance Tuning and Cloud Computing
  Java Champion and Java performance-tuning expert Kirk Pepperdine talks cloud computing and explains why Java developers have a lot to learn about it.