Here's an ode to my most loved poem of all time....Ode to a Nightingale...By John Keats..

And this is the loveliest stanza from it..

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains
One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk:
'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,
But being too happy in thine happiness,
--That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees
In some melodious plotOf beechen green,
and shadows numberless,
Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

O, for a draught of vintage! that hath been
Cool'd a long age in the deep-delved earth,
Tasting of Flora and the country green,
Dance, and Provençal song, and sunburnt mirth!
O for a beaker full of the warm South,
Full of the true, the blushful Hippocrene,
With beaded bubbles winking at the brim,
And purple-stained mouth;
That I might drink, and leave the world unseen,
And with thee fade away into the forest dim:


And with thee fade away into the forest dim:
Keats wants to flee ...fade away with the Nightingale..who sings so sweetly that he is drawn into a trance of joy and peace...where the real world of pain and loss can't reach him, where the beaded bubbles of sweet wine seep through his veins to drench him in the passion of mirth.
Where love and beauty are forever....and the strained mind doesn't bother.
This is like a waking dream....and Keats suddenly wants to be like that bird...who has no worrries or burdens ....and on her death she will be replaced by another similar nightingale...singing with the same melody..she will fade away...whenever she wishes...as she's not bound by the worldly ties....She's free!

Oracle ADF: How i Love it!!

Life's so smooth just like the cascades of perennial fresh waters flowing and flowing in rich abundance, when suddenly my knack for taking up challenges jolts me out of my stupor once more.......And i land up spending nites and days getting close and comfortable with the very tightly bound Oracle ADF.
That's Oracle Application Development Framework. And i am so amused with it...that i have to write about it..
No wonder it's fun.....Everything about Oracle Fusion Practices is fun.. but then may be i am having just a li'l too much fun these days....LOL!
Just can't wait to take it all by my stride.......It gives us a rich set of AJAX-enabled JSF components and radically simplifies rich internet application development.
The whole concept of a Drag & Drop and a Navigation menu framework, with the hierarchical, layered architectural aspect of the BC4J components thrown in, presents us with the modular business services that can be easily integrated and reused.
Though sometimes these very reusable components leave little scope for creativity.
On this some great Oracle Employee, an Oracle fan and a friend informed a few days back...that his team is all plugged in to make the framework even more challenging, and so-called User-Friendly......(Ofcourse that means that a more inflexible framework is in the making... and a lot more R&D to be done...with lots more twists and turns to be taken by us to achieve our ends.....the Client Requirements)....:-( Wow!!
But we will emerge as winners ofcourse....like always:-)......All thats needed is a pinch of genuine sanguinity