The change would unify Java EE/SE and ME oversight.

A quick start guide to get WebCenter up and running in JDeveloper for portal developers more familiar with other environments like Eclipse.

Developers can now download Oracle's first NoSQL offering.

CEO Larry Ellison takes a swipe at Salesforce.com.

The Oracle Application Development Framework (ADF) Mobile Client aims to ease the creation of apps for industrial devices.

New features of Java 7 will include increased developer productivity, modularization, and support for more than 200 languages

In addition to the world's biggest set of genealogies and missionaries in 160 countries, the church has more than 260 centrally managed databases.

Does Oracle's acquisition of Sun mean a merger of their flagship conferences, Oracle OpenWorld and Sun's JavaOne, into a single co-located show?

A Java technology insider says the future of Java hinges on how Oracle handles the JCP, the Project Harmony certification process, and the OpenJDK project.

At JavaOne 2009, Larry Ellison challenges Sun's OpenOffice and JavaFX groups to innovate and wonders out loud why Sun/Oracle couldn't produce mobile devices based on the JavaFX platform.

Oracle 10g introduced a new feature called ROWDEPENDENCIES, which made every row independent. Learn how to use this feature to improve application concurrency and avoid the dreaded ORA-8177 error.

Oracle expects Sun to contribute to its operating profit right away. To make that happen, Oracle may pull funding and staff from projects such as JavaFX, Project Looking Glass, and Project GlassFish.

Determining which queries will provide the best performance for a given application often comes down to a simple question: Does Query X perform better than Query Y? Learn the tools and methods that can help you compare query response times in Oracle.

If you have ever had to analyze the data in a large Oracle database with no documentation, this integrated-documentation tool is for you. Check out this PL/SQL-generated HTML database dictionary.

Often developers are tasked with not only developing functional code, but also with ensuring that the code they develop scales well and performs in the application environment.

A portal provides users with a unified presentation of portlets generated from disparate data sources. Learn how to develop a JSF portlet with JDeveloper and run it in Oracle's WebCenter Framework.

Developers already familiar with JDBC will quickly become comfortable working with XML through XQJ.

Oracle's XDK 10G extends JAXP to make reading, writing, and querying XML easy.

The same ANSI Standard SQL query can run against identical data on SQL Server and Oracle and return different results. So just because your application issues ANSI standard SQL, don't assume it's portable.

Every Oracle PL/SQL developer concerned about the performance impact of repeated if... then... else calls can use conditional compilation to scrub these calls from production code. And that's just the beginning.