I’m thrilled to be presenting at Collaborate 2016 with my colleague John Sim, on the recently open-sourced Oracle JET! We front-end developers had been seeking a better UI/UX solution from Oracle for quite some time, and they have delivered in a big way.

Oracle JavaScript Extension Toolkit (JET) is a powerful and intuitive framework that provides a modular toolkit for front-end developers. Rather than re-inventing the wheel, Oracle JET integrates tried and tested open-source frameworks and libraries like jQuery, KnockoutJS, and RequireJS with JET-specific pre-built UI components. Oracle JET is a flexible client-side framework that can integrate with a variety of back-end services. The combination makes for speedy assembly of client-side applications that integrate with Oracle products and services, especially Oracle Cloud services.

While Java may be the leading language in the industry, JavaScript has quickly gained popularity, especially for developing client-side user interactions. JET was initially built for Oracle in-house use, but Oracle customers and partners continued to ask for JavaScript-based UI development that could interact with existing Oracle platforms. JET provides the capabilities and flexibility of JS UI development, while complying with Oracle standards (internationalization and accessibility, for example) for product delivery.

Part of the beauty of JET, is in its modularity. It allows developers to use as much or as little as they need for a particular project. In addition, different libraries can be incorporated. As JS libraries evolve, and new frameworks are developed, the idea is that they can be incorporated, as well. Oracle JET’s flexibility ensures that it can change with the JS development world.

Our session is targeted at front-end developers looking to leverage their Javascript, CSS3, and HTML5 front- end design skills to create modular single page applications with JET. We’ll include an overview of the JET framework, and discuss the features and benefits along with a quick comparison with ADF (Application Development Framework). We will walk through and explain JET’s integrated open source libraries and frameworks, and then take developers through the creation of a simple JET application using Oracle DoCS REST API.

Please join us at 10:30AM on April 11 in Jasmine D for a dive into this flexible, open-source(!) and exciting new JS framework, and please come see all of the Fishbowl Solutions gang at Booth #1028!