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 […]
Gregory Beumer
Oracle Consultant at AMIS
Stored Java to run an OS command, copy a file and get a directory listing in Oracle
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 […]
Starting with JasperReports
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 […]