Oracle Application Development Framework has been extended to support BlackBerry and Windows Mobile platforms.  Oracle has announced a developer preview of the new Oracle Application Development Framework Mobile Client.

Oracle today launched the much awaited Fusion Middleware 11g.  Below is a quick Java centric look at what to me are the highlights of the new Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g -

Oracle today announced availability of Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, the next generation of its middleware product suite. Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g claims to significantly improve the agility and intelligence of business applications while enabling organizations to exploit new hardware and software architectures for efficient IT execution and cost savings.

I have been a NetBeans and JDeveloper user for many years. I have used Eclipse on and off but can’t say that I have ever adopted Eclipse as such. Recently downloaded the new NetBeans 6.1 beta and was impressed. I already had the latest JDeveloper and Eclipse on my machine.

Oracle’s recent announcement that JDeveloper 10g will now be available free of cost, has sparked a lot of fresh interest in the IDE. In this interview we speak to someone who is in a great position to tell us more about JDeveloper and Oracle’s other products for the Java community.

In this interview, Roel Stalman states that JDeveloper won’t be moving to Eclipse or any other IDE platform. He also tells us what’s planned for JDeveloper and Oracle Application Development Framework, and shares his thoughts on topics like EJB 3.0, AJAX, BPEL and JSF.

In this interview, Debu Panda, the principal product manager for Oracle’s J2EE server talks about the various Oracle products for J2EE.

He discusses the challenges before J2EE and also shares his views on the ongoing JDO and EJB 3.0 persistence controversy.