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OracleJET – Massive Open Online Course (22 Aug – 12 Sept)!

There are these times where really interesting initiatives surface. And to me Oracle’s Javascript Extension Toolkit is one of these. OraceJET in its essence is Oracle’s selection of a number of well-established Javascript libraries to enable rapid development of Javascript client-side applications. You could argue that already enough frameworks exists such as Angular.

But then: OracleJET is not yet another framework, but a modular ‘plug-in’ approach to building pure Javascript applications. If you prefer alternatives for modularization where OracleJET has opted for requireJS but you’d prefer Browserify instead? Or you feel more comfortable with React for two-way data binding instead of using Knockout? Feel free.

Take a step back, why is Oracle interested in building JavaScript applications? Well – traditionally Oracle build most of their applications using Application Developer Framework (ADF). Which resonates of course perfectly fine to Java developers. But to keep pace with Web development techniques, ADF has it’s limitations.

Just to take one key issue for Oracle today: accessibility. Each and every application’s UI should be fully accessible and compliant with WCAG standards. Now, complying with WCAG using ADF is not impossible, but if you consider the relative easy building fully accessible components using JQueryUI that sets back ADF significantly. Get the point?

Now Oracle developed OracleJET first-and-foremost as an internal toolkit, to enable rapid development of new UI’s. These UI’s should implement consistently Oracle’s standard Alta UI theme. And of course fully responsive. So Alta UI styling comes as default, responsive. Like with Bootstrap or Google’s Material-UI components – it allows rapidly developing an application. It gained so much internal success at Oracle (there are 100+ UI’s already developed through OracleJET) that Oracle decided to provide it for anybody to use and leverage. Not only customers, but everybody. So licensed under the Universal Permissive License.

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Of course, Oracle customer are first-and-foremost targeted. Have purchased Oracle Sales Cloud, and seeking for an elegant way to develop a point-solution comprising a mobile hybrid native app? Sure. OracleJET provides full integration with Cordova for this matter as well as native integration with Netbeans as IDE.

So – what’s this Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) all about? It will crash-cours teach the fundamentals of OracleJET. Presented by OracleJET’s Product marketing team: John Brock and Geertjan Wielenga.

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You will learn how to:

  • Apply basic JET principles to create Oracle JET application including JET modules, layouts and components
  • Apply more advanced JET functionality, including navigation, routing, validation, layouts, and responsive design.
  • Create hybrid mobile applications with Cordova in combination with Oracle JET.
  • Integrate with the world outside Oracle JET, e.g., JQuery components and the Oracle Cloud.
  • Deal with the remaining enterprise-level challenges, i.e., internationalization, accessibility, and security.

Register here.

Seeking the relationship with Siebel? Think Innovation Pack 2016. Think REST API. Matter of fact is, that using OracleJET we developed in matter of days a descent looking proof on concept, leveraging IP16’s REST capabilities.

– Jeroen