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Oracle OpenWorld 2011 was a great week. Now is the time to reflect. In one keynote Larry Ellison focused on the need for industry standards. Even Oracle’s own product like Oracle Forms was disregarded, since it doesn’t follow the Java/JEE standards. The portability to other platforms apparently is what customers and Oracle want.
 
We agree with that. A note needs to be made though. Although we (QAFE) develop conforming to standards, we also learned from the past. For example, EJB2.1 was also an industry standard but failed miserably.  Allthough JSF is an industry standard, it is not necessarily the best solution in the era of webtechnologies that we are in. See this link: 
 
http://usenkanov.wordpress.com/2011/06/29/java-frameworks-popularity-trends/ 
 
To give an example where the web is moving towards, see
 
http://www.google.com/search?q=html5%20libraries&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&biw=1199&bih=627
 
The new trends seems to be HTML5 and lots of javascript libraries and javascript toolkits. 
 
To summarize, from QAFE’s point of view, we agree with what Larry Ellison said except for the ADF. We believe that modern web technology is needed for the next generation of applications. Being future proof is something we define by nót choosing a specific technology, but by embracing áll.