The influence of the experience economy on IT architecture
AMIS is puting more and more emphasis on IT architecture. That is one of the reasons why I am doing my Masters in IT architecture and why AMIS is …
Author: Andre Crone
How to call a WS-Security secured web service from Oracle BPEL
Introduction I have been investigating Oracle’s Web Service Manager recently. WSM is shipped with the new SOA Suite. The WSM is a service gateway. Existing services can be placed …
How to build an Oracle Forms application on BPEL/WF
Why Oracle Forms and BPEL? Old style Forms applications normally don’t hold much workflow functionality. Sure there is an order in which the forms should be used. The workflow …
How to send large attachments?
You all know the problem. You want to send that large file to someone, but how? Many email systems restrict the maximum attachment size. I have to send large …
IN or EXIST or doesn’t it matter
In my previous post about package constants I mentioned the application I am working on right now. They gave me the task to speed up the application since performance …
Google releases AJAX toolkit
Google has released their Google Web Toolkit (GWT). This toolkit can be used to develop AJAX applications in Java. Google describes the toolkit as follows: Google Web Toolkit (GWT) …
Wrong use of constant packages
On my recent project we have a large package holding constants values. From a design point of view this is a very elegant solution because this way the constants …
Generate a native Excel file with SQLX
I wanted to generate an Excel file with data coming from an Oracle database. One of the best ways to do this is to generate an Microsoft Excel XML …
How to use weak ref cursors and bulk collects into a table of objects to clean up data
The problem I was facing was simple. You have a table with data. The data in that table should be validated. Invalid rows should be deleted. For each deleted …
Oracle Lite Part 2, how to get started (continued)
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Yesterday I had a few mind boggling experiences with Oracle Lite. Together with our customer and my colleague Arjaan, I tried to install Oracle Lite. This is a very …
Sending CLOB data from Tibco (Java) to PL/SQL stored procedures
On my current assignment I am working on interfaces between Tibco and Oracle PL/SQL applications. Tibco is a middleware solution that implements a messaging based interface solution between different …
Steve Adams is in town – Oracle with a calculator
Today I attended the workshop that Steve Adams is giving in the Netherlands this week. We were with a group of four AMIS employees. The day started in a …
SQLX How to easily generate XML
I recently had the need to generate XML files based on data stored in relational tables. This was done via an XML DOM implementation on the project I am …
Oracle Lite Part 1, how to get started
This post is the first one of a set that I will write about Oracle Lite. I have been working with Oracle Lite and I am impressed. Not by …
How to use the BPEL file adapter to load data into Oracle
This post shows a simple example about how to use Oracle’s BPEL server to load and parse a datafile. The data in the file is then inserted into a …
Oracle wants more database support in Eclipse
uk.builder.com reports that Oracle wants more database support in the Eclipse IDE. Oracle is going to develop database support for Eclipse. This software will be released and donated to …
Create logging data in the same table
Suppose you want to log every update on a table. You want the log records to be in the same original table. You cannot do this in a simple …
W3C considering binary XML standard
Just read on news.com that the W3C consortium is considering a binary XML standard. This could really speed up a lot of transactions. The mayor drawback of course will …
Book review: Business Process Execution Language
March 17, 2005
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Title: Business Process Execution Language Author: Matjaz B. Juric, Benny Mathew, Poornachandra Sarang Published by: Packt Publishing ISBN: 1-904811018-3 Publication Date: 2004 Details: 270pages, $59.99; www.packtpub.com I recently read …
PHP goes Pro
Just read on http://uk.builder.com/webdevelopment/scripting/0,39026636,39238117,00.htm that IBM is officially going to support PHP (Personal Home Page). The agreement between IBM and Zend also means that IBM will dedicate a part …
First impression of Oracle jDeveloper BPEL Beta2
The last few days a colleague and I have been looking into a beta release of Oracle’s BPEL designer for jDeveloper. This tool enables you to orchestrate single web …
Tom Kyte part II. Using what we have learned
In this post we will tune a query from being hopelessly slow to fast. We will use “explain plan” to analyze the query plan. We will see how Oracle …
Tom Kyte about Things we "know"
Last week I attended the Tom Kyte seminar in Utrecht. This was a very impressive seminar held by a real Oracle database Guru. Tom says he still thinks of …
W3C Recommendations Enhance SOAP Performance
Read this today on http://w3.org: The World Wide Web Consortium today released three W3C Recommendations to improve Web services performance by standardizing the transmission of large binary data. “Web …
Effective Oracle by Design
Title: Effective Oracle by Design – Design and Build High-Performance Oracle Applications Author: Thomas Kyte Published by: Oracle Press ISBN: 0-07-223065-7 Publication Date: 2003 Details: 664 pages, $59.99; www.OraclePressBooks.com …
GNU utilities for Win32
Windows is not shipped with a lot of tools for the developer. Simple tools like grep, sed, make are not provided. Today I installed UnxUtils. A set of GNU …
Paris for the Designer
Today I looked into a pre release of Oracles Warehouse Builder 10gR2 (Paris). This comprehensive tool can be used to create complex data warehoused holding data from many different …
OpenVPN: How to safely access a database behind a firewall
OpenVPN is an open source VPN implementation which can be found on http://www.openvpn.net With OpenVPN, you can: tunnel any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP …