Author: Lucas Jellema
An essential part of many BPEL processes are the ‘humanual’ steps – process steps that involve inter-human communication, system-bridging actions, decision making, approval and fuzzy logic based operations that …
During a recent presentation I did on the NL-JUG J-Spring Conference (the Dutch Java User Group) on the interaction between Oracle BPEL PM and Java applications, I got asked …
On Pankaj Chandiramani’s Blog we can find a lot of information with regard to the technology Oracle will build the Release 12 edition of the E-Business Suite on. Pankaj …
We live in a service oriented world. Or we will do so in the very near future. Services are all around us. And mind you: services not just as …
Steve Muench is known as ADF Evangelist, spreading the Gospel from some wonderful location near the Mediterraneum, writing undocumented samples for advanced and usually essential pieces of functionality in …
After having relocated and reorganized our library in our Cafe/Bar Area Cafe@AMIS, I just received another box with fresh books from our friend at Bookpool. This shiphment contains the …
Last night, the ODTUG 2006 Conference Committee announced that all handouts and presentations from this year’s (well, in fact that is last week’s) conference are available for download from …
Donderdag 29 juni presenteerden Alex, Aino, Matthieu en Lucas over hun belevenissen tijdens ODTUG 2006. Hun verhalen liggen vast in een dozijn weblog-artikelen en worden verder ondersteund door de …
During one of the sessions on last week’s ODTUG 2006 conference, I saw a very interesting demo by Keith Laker. He discussed the problem of having several dozens of …
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, ETL, OLAP, Data Mining, Management Information, Dashboards etc. were among the most frequently heard terms at this conference. Much more so than on previous occasions …
AJAX allows for Rich Client Applications on top of standard HTML based Internet technologies. Programming AJAX can be messy and complex. JavaScript libraries like DOJO and BackBase have improved …
Today was another AMIS day at ODTUG 2006. After yesterday’s three presentations, today we have done another three. Aino kicked off at 8.30 AM with his presentation on How …
Another message from ODTUG 2006. The main development tools for most of the participants on this conference is Oracle Forms. Today was an important session, by Grant Ronald (Principal …
The title of this article is hugely misleading. Or somewhat at least. The presentation has to take place yet. And it is my own – so how great can …
It's Showtime! Today at ODTUG 2006, Alex and I are presenting our Oracle Quiz on SQL and PL/SQL – the water is still burning. We will present our audience …
In a very multi-cultural – representatives from France, Italy, the UK and Austria – and rather strong display, Oracle opened the ODTUG 2006 conference formally with the keynote address. …
This year’s ODTUG 2006 Kaleidoscope conference went underway today in Washington DC. A familiar crowd has gathered in a very pleasant venue where around 1.30 PM we kicked off …
This weekend, the show goes on again: ODTUG 2006 – The Kaleidoscope of Oracle Development Technology. Our AMIS delegation will do seven presentations, including one on behalf of Oracle …
Today I ordered, paid, packaged and shipped myself from the bookstore at the NL-JUG Java Conference the following interesting box of 13 books (and got one free as well …
Today, I will be presenting and most of all demonstrating, on Oracle BPEL PM and Java for the Dutch Java User Group’s Spring Conference (NL-JUG J-Spring 2006): My abstract …
Next Thursday, June 15th, I will present on the Dutch Java User Group Conference, on the integration between Java on the one hand and BPEL (specifically Oracle BPEL PM) …
Routeplanners have always been somewhat magical in my eyes. Finding the quickest route from A to B in a graph of thousands of points and connections. I have tried …
Some new books we received during this last week: Access to Rough Cuts of the new O’Reilly titles Ajax Design Patterns By Michael Mahemoff and Java and XML 2nd Edition …
Yesterday I published an article on this blog describing an approach to sorting the elements in PL/SQL Collections:Sorting PL/SQL Collections, the hard way, the intermediate way and the quite …
Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, Insertion Sort, Shuttle Sort… When time is short, these are not the easiest ways of implementing sort operations on your PL/SQL Collections. In this brief …
While the Java – and even the .NET, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP – arena is teeming with open source projects and reusable components, the PL/SQL scene is quiet. Why …
Any article discussing AJAX is currently an instant hit. Articles talking about JSF (Java Server Faces) are also pretty hot. So the combination must drive the number of reads …
I have a colleague who has a stroke of genius. He can create things in SQL and PL/SQL that I find very hard to fathom, let alone could have …
Our monthly book-shipment just arrived and I am playing Santa Claus right now by handing out books to some eager colleagues. The list of titles we received this month …
Events in the database – such as Data Manipulation or DML, Database Object Manipulation or DDL, session connect and disconnect, database startup and shutdown, a user querying for specific …
Queries that contain calls to user defined PL/SQL Functions can be performance killers. If a function call is part of the WHERE clause, depending on the execution plan it …
You never get a second chance for a first impression, the shampoo ad warns us. So every software vendor is likely to be a little nervous about showing a …
Even when you are not in San Fransisco right now, JavaOne2006 will be on your mind somehow. Or if it is not, as a Java Developer it probably should …
I just noticed the Toplink Essentials JPA (java Persistence API or EJB 3.0 Persistence) homepage on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/jpa/index.html . As you probably already know, Oracle has open sourced a …
One of the features in Java Server Faces that distinguishes it from for example JSP technology, is the ability to access UI Components programmatically, at run-time. This makes it …
Yesterday we had a very enjoyable and I think interesting workshop on EJB 3.0 Persistence. After a very nice dinner on our terrace – it was lovely weather – …
While preparing for a workshop on the EJB 3.0 Persistence API that I will present later today, I decided – against all the instructions in demo-school and presentation-college – …
It was promised and now it has been delivered: The Oracle UIX 2.2 Migration Tool allows you to migrate a project built using Oracle ADF UIX to use Oracle …
Developing Web Applications using Java/J2EE technology has not been a picnic over the last few years. It was often hard work, complex, not very productive and the results were …
Oracle 8.0 introduced Objects into the Oracle database, back in 1996. There has been a lot of ridicule for the OO features in the Oracle database, some of it …
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