Author: Aino Andriessen

For me this year’s Open World has three main themes: Community, Cloud and Mobile. Although actually it included a fourth theme: the America’s Cup. The fabulous comeback of Team …

As every year, Open World is again packed with sessions, meetings, announcements, Demo grounds, Hands-on labs, events, music. My calendar is rapidly filling up but I keep on discovering …

Next three days the annual UKOUG conference hits the town of Birmingham. It’ll be three full days packed with Oracle content on a broad range of subjects on Database, …

Table filtering, aka Query by example, is a great feature of ADF tables. This feature provides filterboxes on top of a column(es). and filters the data based on the …

Open World made it clear: 2011 is the year of the ADF developer. Not only were there a lot of sessions about ADF, but also because ADF screens could …

With the PS3 release of the SOA Suite a new version, 10.3.4, of Weblogic has been released. Amongst others, this release also includes a new Weblogic Maven plugin (weblogic-maven-plugin) …

Logging is a very important aspect of application development as it offers run-time access to the behaviour and data of the application. It’s important for debugging purposes but also …

Just as ODTUG Kaleidoscope and Oracle Open World, the UKOUG Tech-EBS is a great Oracle oriented conference. It’s held in Birmingham but the speakers and participants come from all …

This is a shameless plug for my presentation tomorrow, Thursday 23, at Oracle Open World: Can you build, test, and deploy your application within a minute? Do you have …

The installer of version 1.6.10 (and 1.6.8) of TortoiseSVN has a bug that leads to an incomplete update. You must run the installer a second time and choose the …

De system directory is where JDeveloper stores the user specific settings, configurations and also (for 11g) the default domain of the embedded weblogic server. It uses the JDEV_USER_HOME environment …

Source control is off course an essential part of the development process and Subversion is an excellent system for that purpose. In the past, installation of subversion was a …

Although JDeveloper provides loads of libraries out-of-the-box, you often need other libraries in your application. You can easily add these libraries via the project properties. This provides two options: …

‘Oracle Team Productivity Center (TPC) is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that enables software development teams to collaborate and work productively together when developing applications using JDeveloper.’ (OTN …

Recently we had a great session at AMIS about Maven, presented by Jason van Zyl, founder of the Apache Maven project and CTO of Sonatype. He gave us an …

Subversion is a great source control system. One of the great features is it’s branching and merging support. Although many developers avoid it, branching is very powerful and useful …

With my current, ADF Faces 11g, project, we have a requirement that the default text in the error message box is customized. Instead of ‘Messages for this page are …

We recently had a case that required a new version of an Oracle ESB service alongside the old version to provide backwards compatibility. Unfortunately, this is not supported for …

The JDeveloper maintainance release 10.1.3.5 is now available at OTN; the ADF version is 10.1.3.43.06. One of the most noticable bugfixes is nr. 7482935, ERRORS SHOWN TWICE IN AF:MESSAGES …

Recently I presented for the fourth time at the annual ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference. It’s really a great conference that I recommend to every Oracle consultant. It features great presentations, …

JDeveloper provides a build-in Subversion client via one of its extensions. Although the functionality is limited (especially in 10g) it is essential for the handling of business components in …

Oracle has just released JDeveloper 11g. I was off course very interested so here are my first impressions. Instead of just unzipping the download as we used to do, …

The ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference in New Orleans has just finished with the Apex vs ADF session of Lucas Jellema and Dimitri Gielis. They both demonstrated that you can create …

This first day of the ODTUG conference / Kaleidoscope featured the Fusion symposium. Fusion relates to the Oracle Middleware platform and contains a lot of technologies and products. It …

The (Oracle) Java community is currently buzzing because the first JDeveloper 11g preview is available for download at the OTN JDeveloper 11g page. I’ll give you a short introduction …

Like many others, we use Subversion as our preferred source control system (scm). Since a few months an official JDeveloper extension is available which makes our ADF development and …

The templating mechanism of JHeadstart is a huge improvement over the previous versions. It is now quite easy to add your postgeneration changes to a velocity template and add …

One of the challenges of developing (J2EE) applications is information. It’s very hard to have an overview of the different components, objects, database tables etc. and how they interact. …

I am currently working in Nouméa, New Caledonia (western part of the pacific) to setup an environment for the continuous integration of ADF Faces applications for a department of …

The ADF Faces library contains many JSF components. One of the most common used components is the af:inputText. In the JHeadstart it is the default type for most items. …

JHeadstart is a great tool for generating ADF Faces applications. One of the main new features (since 10.1.3) is the templating mechanism. Almost everything is generated with velocity templates …

Maven is a great tool for project automation. It provides build in tasks (like ant) for all the standard java project lifecycles, like build, test, package, documentation etc. One …

Interested in the features and options of the different editions (standard, express and enterprise) of the Oracle database? This document lists them all in a handy matrix format.

Being a major important technology for Oracle, many presentations on this year’s ODTUG conference covered ADF. The showcase, the demonstration of the forthcoming AJAX enabled ADF Faces, has been …

For me, one of the highlights of this year’s ODTUG conference was the presentation of Steven Feuerstein about PL/SQL unittesting, “Six simple steps to unit testing happiness“. While unittesting …

Do you still think the only way to retrieve data from the database is to use the java.sql.ResultSet? Try the new (hum) javax.sql.RowSet. One of the coolest features is …

In this blog, Steven Feuerstein writes about PL/PDF, a pl/sql library to generate PDF files. Sounds very interesting. It seems very easy to use, as is shown by an …

The last KC Web and Java session was titled ‘Advanced java’. During that session we got presentations and workshops on four subjects: annotations, threads, introspection/reflection and generics.

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I am happy to see that a subversion extension is available for JDeveloper (10.1.3). Although it is still an early access version, it seems to work properly. Currently it …