Posts tagged 11g
ADF DataBinding: Yet another thing it does for you.
Today I encountered something that I have seen frequently. While developing an ADF application developers tend to invoke methods on an application module directly, instead of invoking them via the bindings framework. You might get some unexpected results and some additional work too…
Correcting this behavior afterwards can be very annoying and time-consuming. In this blog, just to let developers know, I describe what you could do to prevent this error. (more…)
ADF 11g PanelDashboard; configure your own dashboard
With the recent ADF release a new component is introduced: The panelDashboard component. A component that is easy to use and offers a very visual presentation. With this component we can quickly create a dashboard that consists of panelBox components that can each provide their own content. The dashboard lays these panelBoxes out in a grid – we can specify the number of columns in the grid. With a minimum of configuration (just by adding dropSource components) we can make the panelBoxes drag-and-droppable, allowing the user to reconfigure the dashboard. These re-configurations can be persisted at session level or (using MDS) across sessions. In this post I will explain some of the features of this panelDashboard component, and I will show some usages. (more…)
Logging in JDeveloper 11g / WebLogic Server
When developing an application it makes sense to add logging to this application. The Apache Commons Logging is a way to implement logging to your application independent of the eventually used implementation. While adding log messages to a Fusion Web Application (ADF) and running this application with JDeveloper the logging is not displayed in the application log window. This is not what expected en certainly undesirable. (more…)
Extending the SQL Developer functionality in JDeveloper 11g
One thing that always draws me in tools, libraries and frameworks: what are the hooks, the backdoors, the extension points, the APIs, the event listener registration facilities etc. Today I came across a blog article by Roel Hartman, about showing Oracle Designer objects in the SQL Developer database navigator. I could not resist looking into the extension mechanism used for this. And of course the best way to understand this, is by doing it yourself. So in this article my brief description of how to extend the Database Navigator in JDeveloper (which is the same thing as in stand alone SQL Developer).
My extension is primitive and pointless in the extreme. It has the navigator show a new node type called Employees. The child nodes are the employees specified in table EMP. The interesting part of course is that you can any information found in the database – either the data dictionary or your own tables and views. This allows you to integrate Business Rules if they are defined in tables. Or Tasks, Issues, Projects and Team Members – if they are in tables. Or the results of calling WebServices – if these results are exposed through Views.
ADF 11g RichFaces – Creating a googleMaps Mashup Part I: clientListeners and clientAttributes
While creating the itinerary for my next trip I had to look for things like campgrounds and gasstations on my route. For this I use google Maps. It wasn’t the first time I did this, however this time I wondered if it was possible to integrate googleMaps in an ADF 11g application. It turned out that it wasn’t that difficult at all. I decided to share my findings here. In this part I will show you how you can use <af:clientListener/> and <af:clientAttribute/> to pinpoint a location in your ADF application on the map. (more…)
OOW Sneak preview of Database Excel-erator – on the ADF Desktop integration
One of the sessions I attended yesterday at OOW was by Juan Camilo Ruiz, Product Manager for Oracle Development Tools. His talk was titled ‘Introduction to Oracle ADF Desktop Integration; An Office front-end for ADF Applications.’
He showed how we will be able to use Excel as the client for ADF applications. Instead of having users go into a Swing Desktop client or the ADF Faces Web interface, they can use the tool they are perhaps most familiar with to review, analyze and manipulate the data. Excel is a client to the ADF Model and Business Services through which it downloads the data and uploads the data when the user submits the changes.
Note that the Excel worksheet can taken off-line and the user can work on the data – potentially huge sets of it – in disconnected mode (on the air plane for example where despite all the cloud computing initiatives connectivity still is a scare commodity) only to have it synchronized when it becomes connected again. It is a bit like mobile devices that can work in disconnected mode and synchronize once a connection is available again – but it is Excel behaving in that way. From a developer’s point of view, developing the Excel client for ADF More >
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