Author: Lucas Jellema
Some things are almost to tiny to blog about. Then again, if a blog can save you a lot of work and frustration then, even it is about something …
I just noticed that the Oracle BPA (Business Process Analysis Suite) is available for download from OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/bpa-suite.html . I downloaded the 236 Mb zipfile and did the installation …
It is not a novel experience for me to have an article published. That has happened before. However, today I saw the article on JDeveloper 10.1.3.1 that I have …
As you can see in the announcement on the top of this page – tomorrow we will host the most exciting DBA event of the year: the AMIS Query …
The Tester for ADF BC is a very handy tool, to verify the correctness of the Business Components we have created. However, there are times when the Tester is …
Implementing JAAS based security – or at least Authentication and (role based) Authorization – in JSF applications is a joint responsibility of the Application and the Application Server. The …
One fairly common remark on ADF Faces applications is their Look and Feel. The default look and feel is the Oracle BLAF, and either you love it or you …
Over the course of the last few weeks, we had several book shipments arriving, filling the shelves in our library to the brim. It is interesting to note that …
Brace yourself for yet another pretty useless demonstration of the unexpected wonders of SQL as well as my apparent lack of meaningful things to do with my life. Undoubtedly, …
While writing useless queries for solving exotic challenges, I realized that the use of dummy tables or unions of selects against DUAL for producing a few data-rows is a …
JHeadstart is capable of generating so called advanced search forms. These allow the end user of the ADF application created using JHeadstart to enter various search criteria on which …
Recenlty I installed both the Oracle SOA Suite 10.1.3 as well as JDeveloper 10.1.3.1 – the Design Time environment for the SOA Suite. Everything was set up locally on …
AMIS is proud to announce our next AMIS Query (free technical seminar), targeted at Oracle Database architects en DBAs: Oracle Database High Availability – RAC and Data Guard go …
You probably know Google Suggest or one of its derivatives. An input item on a web-page or another user interface where you can enter a value that all of …
JHeadstart is one of the tools we use quite successfully here at AMIS. We have written on this blog about JHeadstart and ways to extend, enhance and optimally benefit …
A rather interesting session took place last week during OOW 2006, away from the crowds in a small meeting room in the Mariott hotel. The group that assembled there …
One of the keynote speakers during last week’s Oracle Open World Conference van John Wookey, Senior Vice President for Oracle Applications. John is sort of an old acquaintance, as …
Van 21 tot en met 26 oktober vond in San Francisco het grootste Oracle evenement ooit plaats: Oracle Open World 2006 met 42.000 bezoekers, 1400+ sessies en een onwaarschijnlijke …
"We can learn from SAPs lessons learned" was one of the justifications for working with IDS Scheer on BPM. BPM includes a set of activites that organizations perform to …
I just came out of – well actually, as I am writing this down I am still in it – a very good session on the Oracle JDBC drivers …
Yesterday (Monday) was the Keynote speech by Thomas Kurian, Oracle VP, that started the Oracle Develop event. In what can be described as a crisp, well organized presentation, Kurian …
One of the themes regularly stressed during the Oracle Develop event (part of Oracle Open World 2006) is Oracle’s key interest in and support for the Spring Framework. Oracle …
Oracle just announced a competition for Oracle developers around the world: The Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer Challenge. See http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/developer-tools/fusion-middleware-developer-challenge/index.html for the details of this challenge. Basically, all developers are …
One of the intriguing products in the Oracle Portfolio is Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring). I have been trying to see it in action, learn more about and actually …
Yesterday during the Regional Directors for Oracle Fusion Middleware meeting I got a preview and demonstration of what is called the Oracle Developer Depot or odd for short as …
Last night we had the annual Oracle ACEs dinner at a very nice San Francisco restaurant. The food and wine were excellent, but the company even more inspiring. I …
I do not like the P word. Oracle Portal has never quite enthralled me like some or rather many other products from Big Red have. But I think I …
Building applications in our corner of the world typically revolves around databases. The most important bit about an application is not the application, but rather the data it creates …
The Whoops experience again. While preparing demos for OOW 2006, I did one update – or rather one commit – too many. I had assigned all employees to the …
Process instances in the Oracle BPEL PM can be initiated in a number of ways. Some are passive – the BPEL engine receives a call and as a result …
It is a very early Sunday morning in a San Francisco that has turned red! In every street there are banners and posters, half of the busses are Oracle …
It is a good day for the Oracle products availability – would the upcoming Open World conference starting on Sunday in San Francisco have anything to do with this? …
The 10.1.3.1.0 release of JDeveloper just hit OTN. You can download it at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/index.html. The most spectacular changes in this releases are the built in support for the SOA …
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 has a fairly advanced – Eclipse like – mechanism for installing and upgrading plugins or extensions as they are called in JDeveloper lingo. Recently, I decided …
While preparing an article for JDJ as well as a presentation for Oracle Open World next week, I finally got round to finding a proper solution for a challenge …
Internationalization, multi-linguality, NLS support for JSF applications – or any Java powered application for that matter – is an important topic. And Resource Bundles are the way to deal …
The Oracle 10g Database release saw an extension of the MERGE statement with a DELETE clause. That by the way makes MERGE the only statement that can fire all …
While presenting the 7Up Training – upgrading experienced Oracle developers from their Oracle 7 base of knowledge and experience ("still writing 7 backwards compatible code against a 10g database") …
Analytical Functions are a joy in my life as an Oracle developer. I have been demonstrating them, presenting on them, teaching on them and using them. Today I had …
I am currently involved in the migration of a pretty substantial application, developed with Oracle Designer’s Web Server Generator, to the Oracle ADF technology stack, using JHeadstart. You know …