Is Oracle ADF Essential and OEPE Eclipse is discouraged by Oracle? - eclipse

Based on search in internet web sites, Whenever I tried to find a sample or advanced Task Flow based ADF Application created purely using Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse and Glassfish I only end up with a blog entry 5 year old.
When I try to read any ebook, I end up with JDeveloper and weblogic.
When I try to read the tutorial videos from the official oracle website and oracle official YouTube channels I end up with JDeveloper and weblogic.
Does this means that there will be no support provided by oracle for OEPE and ADF Essentials?
Also the basic tutorial for OEPE is too old. Few basic Unbounded Task flow techniques are not working with OEPE and ADF Essentials.

Unfortunately the state of things is exactly as you described.
It looks like there's some sort of development occasionally going on the OEPE repository with the last change being made on 2016-12-19.
I think that some level of support will probably be provided, and frankly it's pretty much the same level of support that has been available for years - low.
Anyone that needs to make a choice (or has a choice for that matter) should take a long, hard look at the situation as it is.

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Clarification: Difference between Talend DI & Talend Enterprise version

I would like to understand difference between Talend DI and Talend enterprise version.
Please share your knowledge in this respect.
Talend is constantly changing the naming of his products, so it is quite difficult to know what is behind the name of a version.
Here is a page on talend site :
https://www.talend.com/products/
Talend Data Integration is the 'core' product, with which you can work with talend components to integrate data. It is the equivalent of "Talend Open Studio for Data Integration" in the licensed ecosystem.
Talend Enterprise no longer appears : it is now rebranded as Talend Data Fabric , which is an aggregation of different Talend Apps.
You have to constantly watch for new products rebranding, so bookmark the link given above, as it is my main source of information on this subject.
With the enterprise addition you get additional components that aid mult-user development such as bitbucket(git), TAC - Talend Admin Console that assists scheduling of job amongst others including Big Data components etc. However having said that, you do get a lot in the free version which is a standalone dev tool and mostly there are workarounds for the above but can take significantly longer.

What are the top 5 deployment automation tools?

I am using IBM UrbanCode udeploy, great tool but afraid IBM will kill it sooner or later with their slow response in supporting. What are the other choices?
UCD isn't going anywhere. Its in high demand these days, and is gaining traction in z/OS shops as well.
However, there other popular tools are Chef and Puppet. Just be prepared for manual data entry and less friendly interface. They work, but are more work to use.

WebLogic to JBoss migration

In my application I have few things which are specific for WebLogic. Is there any tool which can tell me these specification while migrating the application to JBoss?
If you are doing migrations to JBoss you should look at the Windup tool. It will point out all the places in your code that may need attention and give you a score based on how many things you will need to look at. The reports are nice and categorized and they definitely cover your usage of vendor specific code and suggests hints as to what to convert to.
http://windup.jboss.org/
There is also a maven plugin that you can add to your pom and run reports periodically as you go.
Good Luck!

What is the best connector for a single developer to store Mylyn tasks in the cloud?

I would like to use the Mylyn task-centered user interface however i regularly work between two pcs and would rather not purchase any bug tracking software.
Can someone please recommend a good connector to use with Mylyn for my situation or some other workflow that is better suited.
I can recommend you to use Foglyn connector together with FogBugz server. FogBugz server is free for 1 or 2 users, and you can also get free Foglyn license for this edition of FogBugz. Furthermore, with free FogBugz you also get Kiln, which is Mercurial-based Version Control and Code Review system, although you probably won't use its code review part. You can use free FogBugz + Kiln for any number of projects, open source or not, the only condition is number of users (max 2). Big advantage is that you don't have to run your own FogBugz server, but you can use hosted solution. This makes configuration very easy.
(Disclaimer: I'm author of Foglyn connector)
The best Mylyn connectors for free trackers are the bundled connectors for Bugzilla and Trac. So one option would be to find a hosting site that offers Trac, e.g. Assembla, which offers free hosting for open source projects and moderately priced closed projects (I'm quite happy with them, Trac, and Mylyn). Be sure to set up the connection using XML-RPC if you use Trac, else you won't get the rich Mylyn editor.

MOSS Site Definitions, Features and the moving site collections

The general consensus is that devlopment of MOSS publishing sites, should be done using site definitions, Solutions, Features but due to project timescales we had to do all list/site column/content type/master page development using the SharePoint UI and SPD. We then used the contentdeployment wizard to migrate everything from devlopment.
Having done this, the future plan is to possibly, given the budget, change what has been built to use a site definition and features to get in line with best practices.
Has anyone done anything similar or have any tips on how best to plan for this?
Kind Regards
This is somewhat dependent on how large and complex your solution is. I was in the same situation with a project I started to work in. They initially started to do everything in SharePoint Designer. But when I was thrown in to the project, I decided to scrap all those changes, starting from the requirements and build up everything as site definitions/solutions/features in Visual Studio. In this case, it was feasible since the customizations were not too complex.
You can take a look at the SharePoint Solutions Generator, to see if that could help you as well. It can give you at least a good starting point.