Last Friday the first signs that the long waited for JDeveloper 11.1.1.7.0 will be available soon were found on the web. Today, April 1st, you can download JDeveloper 11.1.1.7.0 from the OTN side.
Now that the Release Notes and What’s New documents are available, I looked at some fixws and new features.
I’m glad to see especially these fixes and new features:
ADF Faces and Data Visualization (DVT)
Skyros Skin: Skyros Skin
A new look and feel that incorporates current UI visual design trends (flat, rather than dimensional, reduced gradients, reduced borders, light and or white colors with splashes of color). This skin family uses CSS3 for gradients, drop shadows, rounded corners etc. in comparison to the fusion skins that use background images. Making this skin modern, lightweight, and easy to skin.
Pivot Table Enhancements:
Ability to always display layer headers
Ability to wrap header labels
An API to control the percentage of screen real estate allocated to the header region
Table Enhancements:
Support for freezing the right most columns in a table so that a scroll bar appears on the left side of the frozen columns.
File Upload Enhancements:
Support chunked file transfer for large file uploads
Support for multiple file upload using HTML5 UI where available, and non-HTML5 with java applet. Includes a Drag and Drop interface and a progress bar.
ADF Model
Support complex types in service based EOs: Allow attributes of complex types to be exposed in Service-Based EOs.
The next couple of days I’ll spend checking fixes and new features.
Please read the ‘Release Notes’ and ‘What’s new’ documents (linked at the start of the post) for the complete list of enhancements and bug fixes.
JDev & ADF Goodies 
Timo, thanks for the post, It version resolved my calendar requirements about zoom and timeslotsperhour.
You know something about the BI missing extensions for 11.1.1.7?
I can’t find them either at the moment. You should ask support for them.
Thanks for the info. I would like to ask that which weblogic version that 11.1.1.7 use? 10.3.6 or the new one?
Ok. I found that it uses 10.3.6. It’s on this site:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/index-091111.html
Yes, 11.1.1.7.0 is working on WLS 10.3.6 and 10.3.5 as JDev embedded server is still 10.3.5
Esonerdene, it seems some new features and components are cool. Hope that less bug from 11.1.1.6. Anyway thanks for post.
Hello Timo,
Do you know anything about 11.1.2.3? I´m using it and i would like to know about the new features.
Thank you.
You can read it yourself: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/jdev/jdev-11gr2-nf-404365.html
Hi, Timo.
I really liked the new feature, especially skyros skin. Will these features included in 11.1.2.3 or 11.1.2.4(future release)? Or can we use the skin of 11.1.1.7 in 11.1.2.3?
And is there any news/info/doc about 11.1.2.4 (what its feature and when will be get public) ?
Thanks, Ider.
Hi Ider,
Follow this post on OTN: https://forums.oracle.com/forums/message.jspa?messageID=10944335
It has some posts about 11.1.1.7 and 11.1.2.3
Tks
Hi !
Since I am unable to update to 11.1.2.3 from 11.1.1.7 instalation on weblogic server (after upgrade all 11.1.2.3 applications fail to start and patches no longer work -Patch “14582286” is not needed since it has no fixes for this Oracle Home.) , please advise me how to run skyros skin in 11.1.2.3……
You can’t. The new skin is for 11.1.1.7.0 and not for 11.1.2.3.0. You have to keep the two installation separated from each other. You can only update the application from 11.1.1.7.0 to 11.1.2.3.0 but you loose the skin. For more info which jdev version need which wls refer to https://tompeez.wordpress.com/2011/09/14/jdeveloper-versions-vs-weblogic-server-versions/
Thanks for the info Timo, but that’s a bit dissapoiting. Our production environment is configured for 11.1.2.3 and we have many applications already running on it (which don’t require SOA etc). So basically I would have to install a completely new domain to use the new features of 11.1.1.7, just for a new skin and some bugfixes from 11.1.1.6 (over which 11.1.2.3 patches still work). Seems I won’t be upgrading very soon. Any chance that these features will be contained in 12c ADF ? (both 11.1.2.3 and 11.1.1.7 together)
It’s not only that you have to install a new domain, but you have to back port your UI to 11.1.1.7 if you have used JSF2.0 (which I guess you have).
You have to wait for 11.1.2.4.0 and see what comes in this version. I can’t comment on this as I’m not an Oracle employee. However, 12c should have all the features which are now in 11.1.1.x and 11.1.2.x versions as 12c brings them both back together. No guarantee for that!
Is there any documentation in terms of which HTML5 features are supported in Oracle ADF?
Sorry, I’m not aware of such a document. You may ask this in the OTN forum.
Timo