It has happened. I am a geek too!
Looking around at JavaOne 2007, scanning the crowds of fellow conference attendees, something made me wonder: am I a geek? I like to think of myself as a man …
Author: Lucas Jellema
JDeveloper 11g – Dynamic (and I mean really dynamic) Tables with ADF Faces Rich Components
May 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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You may have seen (blurry pictures of) screenshots of the dynamic table component for ADFFaces that Oracle started promising us some 11 months ago. It would have all these …
JMX – Java Management Extension – paving the way for manageable applications (JavaOne 2007)
One of the pleasant surprises in the wonderful world for J2EE (and J2SE since the Tiger Release) is JMX. It may sound complex: a not so easy acronym, targeted …
JavaOne 2007 – Winners and Losers, well… Stars and roadies
It is not yet over, the conference. And the jury is still out. And mine is only a single vote. But by now I do get a pretty clear …
JavaOne 2007 – What every Java Developer should know about BPEL
Oracle asked me to do a presentation the Oracle Mini Theater on the Java Pavilion (several Regional Directors Oracle Fusion Middleware presented there, along with Oracle product managers). Out …
JavaOne 2007 – Oracle's General Session by Thomas Kurian – Next Generation of JEE, SOA and Human Interaction
Yesterday opened with a pretty well attended General Session by Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President Oracle Server Technologies Division. As I have become used to expect from him, it …
Gauge charts in SQL or How to produce the world's ugliest speedometers
I may be at JavaOne 2007, the important work still has to go on. Hence the latest in a series of SQL powered charts and graphs: the Gauge or …
JavaOne 2007 – Oracle announces Rich Components (JSF) donation to Apache MyFaces
Following the donation of its ADF Faces JSF library to the open source community as Apache MyFaces Trinidad, late 2005, Oracle today announced that it will donate all the …
JDeveloper 11g – Model based (ViewObject) List of Values and their end-to-end benefit in the web tier
May 9, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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In JDeveloper 11g, as another example of declarative productivity, we can add a List of Values definition to an attribute in a ViewObject, indicating that typically that attribute whenever …
JDeveloper 11g and the future of ADF Business Components
May 9, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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With the Technical Preview of JDeveloper 11g out now for JavaOne 2007, we can take a closer look at several areas in the tool and see where they are …
Report from JavaOne 2007 – The future of the Java Technology Web Tier
While still early days, and with the expert groups still having to do their job, this session discussed some of the likely advances for the Java Technology for the …
Quite a feat: an entertaining talk on SDO and SCA; Kudo’s to Doug Tidwell speaking at JavaOne 2007
One of my personal objectives for this JavaOne conference is to get a clear – of if that is too ambitious at least a clearer – view of what …
Oracle 11g Technology Previews are available for download
May 9, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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We knew it was coming, now we talk about it. From Olaf’s Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/olaf/2007/05/08#a84 JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview Software Online Demos Tutorials Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) 11g Technology …
JavaOne 2007: Some cool things to investigate as soon as possible
The first day of JavaOne is continuing. It seems to reach out in many different directions, from SOA to Groovy, from mobile devies to JEE Application Servers. It is …
JDeveloper 11g – making thousands of developers productive – and their applications visually attractive
May 8, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Here is your challenge: we have many thousands of developers, with many different technical backgrounds. Do not expect all our developers to be advanced Java programmers. They will be …
Stacked Bar Chart – you can do that too in SQL
In my series of useless queries and my attempt to produce any Chart-style in ASAP (as plain as possible) SQL, I would now like to show my Stacked Bar …
Live from the opening session of JavaOne 2007
Note: this is a live blog that will be updated regularly over the next two hours. I am writing it as we are in Moscone South Conference Hall for …
Creating a Gantt-chart in SQL
There are many things that can help make this world a better place. A pure SQL-based Gantt-chart is not one of them. However, that is exactly what this article …
JavaOne 2007 – This year's magic numbers
Sunday morning, Schiphol Airport. It is almost time to depart for San Francisco, for this year’s JavaOne conference. Apparently the weather is great in SFO, so it is going …
AMIS Academy – Mini Conference on Oracle, Java, SOA, Process Analysis, Database, Application Server and BI
Tuesday May 8th we organize the 3rd AMIS Academy, with 15 sessions on various subjects connected with our work and the technology we typically make use of. Visitors are …
Instant field conversion – Rapid Data entry and SMS Speak converter – using ADF Faces PPR with Customer JSF Converters
While preparing for my paper Getting the most AJAX out of ADF Faces – Developing really rich web applications for the upcoming ODTUG 2007 Kaleidoscope conference, I dabbled a …
New book shipment to further build our library
This week we added more than 50 books to our ever expanding library of books on Design Patterns, Oracle Database Administration, Script Languages, Agile Development, Core Java, SOA, Security …
SAN, SUN and SOA, better run and hide – Likes and dislikes of Anjo Kolk – report of an inspiring AMIS Query on Performance
Last night, we hosted an inspiring and thought provoking AMIS Query, with some 70 developers, project managers and primarily DBAs. The presentator was well known performance expert ("I just …
Using the Sun Java BluePrints AJAX JSF Components in your own JSF Web Application
One of quite a few open source JSF libraries available to JSF Web Application developers is the Sun Java Blueprints AJAX JSF Components. This set of AJAX-powererd JSF components …
The search for the Easter portlet – hiding portlets in ADF Faces Web Applications using WebCenter Framework
April 6, 2007
Oracle, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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Yesterday I did a presentation on Oracle WebCenter and the concept of UI-SOA. Part of the talk were a great number of quite complex demonstrations, to illustrate the key …
Consuming a JSR-168 Calculator Portlet in a Java Server Faces application using Oracle WebCenter
April 2, 2007
IT, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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Oracle WebCenter allows JSF (including ADF Faces) applications to consume Portlets. That means that our own application can pretend to be a portal too. Anywhere in the JSF page, …
Exporting to Excel from any ADF Table
March 26, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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No matter how fancy the application you develop, no matter how sophisticated the user interfaces: end users will always clamor for Excel. All data eventually will end up in …
Using a generic JHeadstart Custom Template to support the inputTextHyperlink display type
March 22, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Being able to generate our ADF Web Applications is a fine thing. JHeadstart can really get us a long way with our application. However, in most situations, JHeadstart will …
Puzzelen met SQL (1) – Politiek Correct?
Dit artikel is de on-line tegenhanger van de rubriek Puzzelen met SQL die komende maand voor de eerste maal verschijnt in de Optimize, het vakblad voor Oracle ontwikkelaars in …
Demonstrating some new JHeadstart 10.1.3.1 Features
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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A few days ago, the Oracle JHeadstart team released the 10.1.3.1 release. It was announced as ‘a point release’ but it turns out to offer a substantial chunk of …
New release (10.1.3.1) of JHeadstart has been published – many, many new features
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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A point release for JHeadstart has been made available by the Oracle JHeadstart team. For a point release, it has a surprisingly long list of new features. Among the …
How ADF Faces can do Tiles or SiteMesh like Push-Style templating using Regions with Dynamic Attributes
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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JSF has in built in facility for templating, apart from the subview component. And the Subview does not give us the kind of push-style templating that has us define …
The Java Server Faces generic "garble button" – how to become wildly popular again…
Somewhat akin to the dbms_advanced_rewrite package application I discussed some time ago, I have now another piece of functionality that will make you once again the light of the …
Writing a pure SQL based String Tokenizer
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A quite common concept in many programming langiages, though perhaps strongest in Java, is the String Tokenizer. This is a utility class or function that takes a String as …
Creating XML Data Services for Reporting and ESB integration using DBMS_EPG (the internal HTTP/PLSQL Gateway) and XMLType
Today I all of a sudden found myself investigating the creation op PL/SQL based Data Services, returning XML documents with data from SQL queries to HTTP Clients. The direct …
Nodig óns uit! Invite Us! (dan nodigen we jou ook weer uit)
Je weet, we nodigen je altijd graag uit om in onze kennis te delen. Via deze weblog laten we bijvoorbeeld in detail zien met wat voor zaken we bezig …
My first steps with Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.2: create a report based on the OraBlogs rss-feed
After receiving a new, pretty powerful laptop, on Thursday and installing the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition on Friday, this weekend sees my first steps with the BI Publisher (previously …
Oracle WebCenter Suite 10g (10.1.3.2.0) available for download too
February 1, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Yesterday we received the 10.1.3.2 release of JDeveloper, with the WebCenter design time; today we are presented with the WebServer Suite (Server) as well. Download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/101310.html :
How to refer to an Attribute in the Currently Selected Table row in an ADF Faces page – implementing a Generic Row Reader
January 31, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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A very small article on a very trivial issue. I have a page with a Master-Detail construction with a (master) Table of Departments and a (detail) Table of Employees. …
Creating an ADF URL Service DataControl for binding a File or Servlet/JSP service and using it in an ADF Faces Web Application
January 31, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Looking through the list of new features for JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 yesterday I suddenly noticed a feature that was not new at all, but that had so far escaped my …