Oracle Technology Network

You are invited to attend Oracle Technology Network (OTN) Developer Day, a free workshop of hands on labs and sessions. At this event, you will be able to network with peers and Oracle experts while you learn about the modern, lightweight platform that is Java EE 6 – and the productivity it offers - particularly when integrated with other commercial and open source technology.

Ksplice zero downtime kernel updates are now available for the Red Hat compatible kernel on Oracle Linux 5 and 6. And if you are running Red Hat Enterprise Linux without Oracle Linux support and you’d like to try Ksplice, sign up for our 30-day free trial.

The Java SE 7 Editions of the Java Language Specification and the JVM Specification are available at http://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/ in both PDF and HTML form.

There's more than one way to develop and deploy a Java EE project on a appserver. Jeff West, Arun Gupta, Cary Milsap, and Brian Jimerson debate the merits of their favorite methodologies.

Oracle R Enterprise is Oracle's distribution of the popular R statistical analysis language, and is part of the new Advanced Analytics option for Oracle Database 11g Release 2 EE.

Release 3.1 continues to expand on SQL Developer's DBA functionality, adds a Data Pump UI for high-speed movement of data and metadata, offers new PDF reports, and more.

Another great issue of the (free) Java Magazine!

In June of 2010, Dell made the decision to migrate 1,700 systems from SUSE Linux to Oracle Linux, while leaving the hardware and application layers unchanged. The people who worked on the migration describe how Dell planned and implemented the migration, including key conversion issues and an overview of their transition process.