Gregory Beumer

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Android puts Oracle on the (Google) map.

24/3/2011 - 3:38 pm

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Posted in Database, General, J(2)EE/Java, Java, Java, JEE, OAS and WebLogic Server, Mobile, Oracle | No comments

For a couple of months I have been discovering the Android platform. As an original Oracle developer I was wondering how an Android app can be connected to an Oracle database.
For this purpose I developed an Android app that stores speed traps that users may hit while driving, into an Oracle database. The app also [...]

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, 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

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Posted in AMIS, Databases, J(2)EE/Java, Java, Java, JEE, OAS and WebLogic Server, Oracle, Tools, Web, Web/Java | 86 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 [...]