Challenging week

What a week last week. Three project - three completely different technologies.

• I started the week bug fixing our Wheelchair portal written in Grails. Grails underpinned by my favorite language Groovy is by far framework of my choice and means that i had a pretty good time coding.
• Next one - PoC opening Oracle CRM (EBiz suite) custom form preloaded with data coming from our new out of the shelf leasing product. Normally we would pass this information in URL but that would mean customizing Oracle CRM which is expensive and no one wants to do it. Solution - Calling system will store input data in database and CRM will load this data on form load event. This event can be handled as personalization (not customization). Technologywise - Oracle SOA to store data into database (exposed as sync webservice) and Oracle forms on CRM side.
• Last one - creating MS Outlook tasks triggered by events in CRM. The CRM bit is outsourced but the Exchange bit is pure java witha hint of Apache Jackrabbit (client side only - no webDAV server) and composition of webDAV messages.

To be honest that somehow demonstrate how experienced developers (could this be me?) can contribute - by bringing in knowledge from many fields spanning across many technologies. I'm not saying that less experienced developers can't do that but in my opinion they're more focus on latest trends rather than having all round knowledge especially outside of the mainstream (how many of them do Oracle forms, BPEL, not to mention webDAV?).
Anyway good times last week, this week it will be more about implementing more PoC and more, unfortunately, meetings ...