Author: Lucas Jellema
When building ADF applications using JHeadstart, one can benefit from the pretty advanced search facilities provided by JHeadstart, both through its runtime framework and as generated by the JHeadstart …
One of things we do at AMIS is develop sometimes fairly complex applications built on the Oracle ADF technology stack. On several occasions, we have been working closely together …
Today I crossed some boundaries with my personal understanding of Java Server Faces. I have gone where I had not gone before. We were facing the following situation: our …
Two weeks ago, during the first session of our 3-month SOA Training program, we worked very hard on XML (and XSD, XPath and XSLT). Today, this starts to pay …
Our challenge: from every one of our 100+ pages we would like to be able to invoke a specific operation on the ApplicationModules Client Interface. Ideally, we should create …
Issues are an important way of organizing tasks around both development and maintenance of the application as well as for collecting collective knowledge about the application and the use …
One of the reasons why I have been very quiet lately on this weblog is the SOA Training Program we started at AMIS, two weeks ago. With 11 experienced …
It was serious business yesterday. Within 10 minutes I received word of the Oracle BEA acquisition and the Sun MySQL take over. That was a lot to take in …
Standing on the shoulders of Anthony Reynolds and Matt Wright, I finally managed to get the Correlation Sets feature in Oracle BPEL PM to do what I intended: I …
I use contact lenses. A pair will last me a month, then should be chucked away and replaced by a fresh pair. I buy them in six-month packs. From …
Today in the car I had some thoughts on applications working together, across the boundaries of technology and organizations. I tried to find an easy, cheap way for for …
BPEL Process definitions frequently include parameters that influence the flow through the process. Sometimes these parameters are embedded as hard coded values sometimes variables dynamically retrieved from a PartnerLink …
As described in earlier postings in this series, the ADF Faces 11g RichFaces library has several facilities for client side logic to complement the already pretty rich client functionality. …
In this second part of a series on ADF 11g Rich Faces Client Programming, I will talk about the option to include JavaScript in a PPR response, to execute …
Really cool, Web 2.0, AJAX powered JSF applications are inconceivable without substantial use of JavaScript. Whether or not the Java developers like it, it is a fact of life. …
 Google Calendar (http://www.google.com/calendar) is one of the many services offered by Google. It allows users to manage a personal or shared agenda on line, from the comfort of their …
In a previous article, I showed two versions of more or less the same application. One created in APEX by Dimitri Gielis, the other built using ADF and JHeadstart …
Showing both APEX and ADF and giving the audience some inkling as to there similarities and their differences – what is the best way of doing that? Well, one …
It was promised at Oracle Open World by Thomas Kurian, just over a month ago. And now Oracle delivers on that promise: the Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Preview at …
Last Monday, we organized an AMIS Query on APEX and ADF. Dimitri Gielis, APEX specialist, joined us and presented his ideas on APEX. I took on the role as …
Last month we organized a Knowledge Center session on Oracle Open World 2007. AMIS consultants Peter, Sjoerd, Harm and Lucas were joined by Lonneke from Approach Alliance to present …
AMIS is proud to announce an AMIS Query on Monday 17th December 2007: Developing Web Applications with Oracle development technology: ADF and Application Express, side by side. There are …
Last week we had Oracle Open World 2007, a week of sessions, key notes, news, debates, rumours, demonstrations, previews on the latest and greatest from Oracle. AMIS had a …
Most of the presentations for the sessions presented at Oracle Open World 2007, last week in San Francisco, can be downloaded from the Content Catalog at: http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp. You will …
In the past months I have written several times about the Matrix component I developed for ADF Faces to be used in several of our projects. Yesterday I demonstrated …
While of course the applications we build using ADF Faces technology are perfect and cater optimally to every end user’s needs, some end users seem to disagree. Even though …
Just under an hour ago, we completed The Great Oracle SQL Quiz session at Oracle Open World. Around one hundred attendants managed to find their way to the session …
Yesterday I wrote a blog article on how to use the Oracle 11g PL/Scope compiler setting to derive compiler warnings about potential incorrect usage of variables. This incorrect usage …
In my current ADF Faces (10.1.3) project, I have created several custom JSF components. These components combine chunks of recurring page structure content. By using custom components, I can …
The Oracle 11g PL/Scope feature allows us to have the PL/SQL compiler generate information on all identifiers used in our PL/SQL code. Using the information generated and available from …
It is common in Java Web Applications, including ADF Faces applications, to not hard code application boiler plate text such as prompts, titles, tooltips and button labels. Instead, the …
Today, during Thomas Kurian’s keynote session at Oracle Develop, a gift for the holidays was promised: before it’s Christmas, Oracle will put a Technology Preview of its 11g Fusion …
My first formal activity at Oracle Open World 2007 was the Oracle Ace Director Product Briefing. A closed session where 30 odd ACE Directors (and you read that any …
Last night we saw the opening night of Oracle Open World 2007. The big keynote session in the Moscone Center was around Oracle’s 30 year anniversary with the main …
Some operations and data, available from one or more ADF Data Controls, are useful across the application. From just abaout anywhere in the ADF Faces Web Application, you may …
End users of web applications like clarity. They want to know where they are in a page, what the current context of information and their actions is. Next to …
The November 1st presentation that Alex and I did on 11g – focusing on features and functionality that are of particular interest for developers – is finally available for …
Many web applications are rendered by HTML rendering frameworks and technologies such as JSP, JSF, PHP, .NET etc. In such technology stacks, it is common to make use of …
Many integration patterns involve messages being received, transformed, enriched and sent onwards. The Oracle Enterprise Service Bus supports most of these patterns and operations, but not all of them …
We need to learn an awful lot for productively developing good looking, robust ADF applications. And the best lessons learned are learned by experience. However, it does not necessarily …