Welcome, Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch Members

BEA customers, tell us what you're thinking.

The Oracle Technology Network is happy to welcome members of the BEA Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch communities. The OTN team, which now includes some of the very same people behind those BEA communities, is hard at work merging the best of Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch into OTN. In the coming weeks, all your familiar BEA community resources will emerge on OTN, enhanced by improved tools and increased opportunities for peer interaction and collaboration.

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Frequently Asked Questions
Updated Dec. 21, 2008

What happened to the Dev2Dev Website?

As of Aug. 1, the Dev2Dev and Arch2Arch URLs redirect to the page you're on now; forums.bea.com also redirects to forums.oracle.com (and Dev2Dev Newsgroup content has migrated to a searchable archive). Edocs.bea.com will remain accessible for a time.

Is BEA product information be available on OTN?

Yes. We are already deep into the migration process and have deployed many new Product Centers—with associated downloads, documentation, discussion forums, and other content—on OTN as of July 1, with more to follow in the coming weeks.

Our motto here is "free to download, free to learn, unlimited evaluation time ". Under the OTN Developer License, you may use full versions of products at no cost, and for an indefinite period, while developing and prototyping your applications (or for strictly self-educational purposes). In some cases, certain downloads (such as Beta releases) have licenses with slightly different terms.

Yes. Our new community lead in the Architect area, Bob Rhubart, is making Architecture a big focus area going forward for OTN; new Architecture Centers have already deployed on OTN, and subscriptions to Oracle's Arch2Arch Newsletter are already available.

Individual employee bloggers are responsible for migrating the content of their Dev2Dev blogs to blogs.oracle.com; no systematic migration is/was possible.

Oracle has an extremely large and active community at forums.oracle.com, which was the migration point for Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch newsgroups content as well as the hosting point for new BEA-related forums. (No NNTP service is available; however, RSS feeds and email watches are baked in.) See a forums mapping doc here.

Developers will continue to get free workshop-based training via the OTN Developer Day program.

What is the fate of CodeShare?

CodeShare is being retrofitted for use by the OTN commuity under a new monicker, samplecode.oracle.com. This work is scheduled to complete in early 2009.

If you are a Dev2Dev newsletter subscriber, you will auto-magically receive Oracle's Dev2Dev Java Newsletter as soon as your subscription can be migrated. Similarly, Arch2Arch Advisor subscribers will receive Oracle's Arch2Arch Architect Newsletter (first edition in August) after the same process. In either case, no action is required from you to maintain your subscription, and you will be notified about how to opt-in or opt-out to other communications from Oracle.

I receive Dev2Dev/Arch2Arch content via RSS feeds today. Will I continue to receive those feeds?

No. However, Oracle offers RSS feeds for a wide variety of equivalent content. You will have to set up subscriptions through your feed reader or news aggregator.

If you are registered to download Oracle software or participate in Discussion Forums, you are already an OTN member. Otherwise registration is a free, fast, DIY process. Join us!