Gregory Beumer

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Stored Java to run an OS command, copy a file and get a directory listing in Oracle

11/2/2005 - 12:48 pm

Posted in Databases, General, Java, KC SDPL, Oracle | 9 comments

Oracle 8.1.5 introduced the ability to choose Java as a language to implement a stored procedure.
One of our customers required the following functionalities from within an Oracle database:

Running an operating system command
The ability to copy a file
Listing all of the files in a given directory

These things are missing in UTL_FILE.
PL/SQL cannot do [...]

Starting with JasperReports

20/1/2005 - 3:47 pm

Posted in AMIS, Databases, J(2)EE/Java, Java, Java, JEE, OAS and WebLogic Server, KC Web/Java, Oracle, Tools, Web | 85 comments

My first days at AMIS I examined JasperReports (v. 0.6.3), an open source report-generating library. This tool is entirely written in Java and uses XML report templates to generate reports you can display on the screen, send to a printer, or save as a PDF document.
In order to fill a report with data, the report [...]