My key takeaways from Oracle OpenWorld & JavaOne 2017

I've just literally arrived from Oracle Open World and JavaOne 2017 and my head still hurts with so many interesting announcements and cool new things I want to get my hands on and learn. This blogpost provides a short summary of my impressions and key takeaways from both events.

General overview:

This year OOW and JavaOne was full of changes from previous ones. For starting most of the sessions took place between Moscone South, Moscone West and the Marriot Marquis, as opposed to all over the place. I understand that this was mainly due to renovations that took place in Moscone which meant that more rooms were available.

JavaOne this year took place in Moscone West (as opposed to Hilton Union Square). First thing that really stroke me was the vast amount of people that seemed to have attended the event (see below tweet from Adam Bien). Not sure if more people attended JavaOne than OOW, but my first observation is that sessions in JavaOne were better attended than those in OOW (at least in the areas am interested on and from what I could see -this is a personal view so don't get offended if you disagree).

My second observation from this year's event was the increased focus to the Developers audience. A clear change of direction from previous years (in my view for good), and it shows that Oracle is committed and trying hard to engage the broader developer communities (not just Oracle's traditional one). In my view Oracle is taking solid and promising first steps towards achieving this goal and hopefully this article highlights some of them.
Overall, really liked the vibe of the event, specially in Moscone West. I was also very pleased to see an open source project am part of (omesa.io) been mentioned a few times :)


Lastly I am happy about how my four sessions went (uploaded the decks already so hopefully they will be made available soon), but specially very happy about the last one (only one I did in JavaOne) as it was well attended even though it was the last of they (before the concert). Developers care about APIs :)
Following my key takeaways in the different areas am interested on:

Key takeaway on application development space:
  • Project FN: Recognising that one of the key challenges in the serverless space is lack of cross-vendor standards, Oracle announced the release of a new fully open source serverless project named named Project FN. This is a solid attempt (also well received by many -including myself) to fill a gap in the industry and create a non-proprietary, Java based, solution for serverless applications that can run in any cloud and on-premises. I personally find this a supper exiting announcement and can't wait to get my hands into it. 
  • Oracle Container Native Application Development Platform: based on the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) project, this open source platform delivers a comprehensive, complete and robust solution for building cloud-native microservices anywhere (any cloud and/or on-premises).The solution is composed of the following services: 

My key takeaways in the Integration space: 

  • Oracle Integration Cloud: not to be confused with ICS, this is a new offering that brings together multiple integration products to deliver a comprehensive and complete iPaaS platform. I am actually very pleased about this as I had previously wrote about what an iPaaS platform should look like (click here for the article) and this new offering definitely addresses it.
  • I am a big fan of APIs (if you know me then this is not news!) and I was also happy to capture some key new announcements for the recently launched Oracle API Platform Cloud Service: 
    • API Plans will be available in about 3 months and will allow for different charging models to be applied to APIs.
    • Native OAuth integration. Not just an OAuth policy (as most API gateways support), this is full blown OAuth Authentication Service (AS) capability that will make it a lot easier to implement different OAuth authorisation flows.
    • Notifications and web-hooks -really cool feature.
    • Partnership + integration with the following products: 
      • API Fortress: For full end to end functional testing of APIs (i.e. OAuth login flows, multiple API calls, etc) 
      • APImatic: for creation of client SDK’s for APIs (in multiple languages) from the API Platform developer portal 
      • Both the above will be sold separately however at a proportional price of platform 
    • Ongoing commitment to continue to fully integrate Apiary into the platform was reiterated several times, including licensing wise (which has been a bit of hassle until now). I am also positive that although Apiary will be fully integrated with the broader API platform,  it will continue to be sold separately so developers using non-Oracle API gateways can continue to leverage Apiary design-first capabilities.
  • Oracle Integration Platform Cloud (OIPC): A comprehensive data integration solution that brings together into a single managed platform in the cloud: Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle Golden Gate and Oracle Enterprise Data Quality (this latter as I understood only for the OIPC Governance Edition) 
  • Oracle Application Container Cloud supports for Java EE and Go Land. Not a huge announcement but interesting indeed

Headline keynotes takeaways:

  • Larry's main announcement this year the Oracle’s Autonomous Database: from 18c Oracle introduces the world's first autonomous database that claims to Fully automated patching, upgrades, backups, and availability architecture perform all routine database maintenance tasks—without the need for human intervention 
  • Universal credits: put simple, monthly or annual credits that can be used across all Oracle PaaS/IaaS services (including Cloud@Customer). This is an interesting announcement as it'll make the process of purchasing cloud services a lot easier and will also ensure that credits are actually used.
  • Bring Your Own License (BYOL): ability to re-purpose existing on-premise licenses of Oracle database in Oracle PaaS.
  • Lastly also sharing some useful tweets that summarise some of my favourite keynotes:
    • Oracle JavaOne keynote:
  • Oracle PaaS key announcements by Amit Zavery:




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