Author: Lucas Jellema
For me it was a new phenomenon: JavaBlackBelt (http://javablackbelt.com/jbb/). A site where you take exams in several different Java related categories, such as J2SE, Ant, OO, JasperReports, Spring, XML, …
Yesterday we had another of our AMIS Query sessions – for technical specialists from AMIS, our business relations and even our collpetitors in the Dutch marketplace. Some 30 people …
It was a rumour – actually one of three: JBoss, SleepyCat and Zend PHP, see our article Is Oracle buying JBoss? Or Zend PHP? Or SleepyCat? Or all of …
This article Oracle’s Open-Source Shopping Spree in Business Week Online suggests that Oracle is involved in serious discussions with JBoss, Zend and SleepyCat about a take over – for …
EJB 3.0 Persistence is a topic that is high on our list. We have written a substantial number of blog articles on it after doing quite some research as …
Gisteren, donderdag 9 februari, hadden we een uitstekende bijeenkomst rondom EJB 3.0 Persistence API. Met z’n 16-en – waarvan twee geïnteresseerde externen – hebben we in goed drie uur …
This article describes a quick route to starting out with the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API from the Eclipse 3.1 IDE. In a subsequent article, I will discuss …
On Saturday I was shocked to read the announcement in the newspaper of the death of Lex de Haan. Even though, after the earlier reports on his physical condition, …
Steven Feuerstein and his team bring the world a new gift: Qute – the Quick Unit Test Engine. Steven says: “Qute is the Quick Unit Test Engine. It is …
This is the fourth installment in a series of four on the concept of Post Loading Resources into an HTML document after the document itself has been loaded. Using …
Yesterday, Oracle’s President Charles Philips announced that Oracle’s acquisition of Siebel is completed and Oracle and Siebel are now operating as one. One of the comments in the official …
AJAX opens up a lot of possibilities – that in truth by and large already existed pre-AJAX. In a series of articles, I am discussing the concept of post …
In a previous article – Ajax-based Post Loading of resources in HTML pages – for reuse of resources and fast user feedback – I have introduced the concept of …
It has finally happened: JDeveloper 10.1.3 has been released. No news headlines on the OTN frontpage yet, but to be found on the JDeveloper download page: That went …
This article discusses a generic method for Post Loading Resources in HTML pages. What do I mean by that? Just as your browser will fire additional requests, to potentially …
This article came about as a result of the questions asked by Victor Bax with regard to an earlier post: Oracle Designer – Script for verifying the privileges assigned …
SOA, WebService and web service, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL and WSIF, Axis, SOAP, JAVA-RPC etc. etc. If Google has not found this blog by now… Seriously, these are all hot …
Service Oriented Architecture is the Architecture Design Pattern of today. Using standard WebService interfaces for functionality published by legacy applications to external consumers, we can easily reuse such functionality …
While investigating the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API, I came under the impression that the specification does not cater for Stored Procedures. In general, there seem to be …
Creating pretty graphics – or any meaningful graphics at all – in web applications is an important issue. Visual information as well as illustration makes applications more appealing and …
It seems to be awards day or so. On Syscon (Australia) I found the announcement of the JDJ Reader’s Awards. It is interesting, because of the fairly literate and …
Just noticed on The Server Side an announcement regarding the "Developer.com Product of the Year 2006 Winners". As you can see for yourself, JSF (Java Server Faces), Ant, Eclipse …
While working on Rich HTML clients that could retrieve information from various sources on different web-servers using multiple AJAX requests, I came across the AJAXSLT project from Google Code. …
AJAX is hot, great and will make the world a better place. We all know that. However, AJAX has some limitations. AJAX is about making additional HttpRequests from the …
We have been using JIRA for our Incident Management the last six months or so, and one of the UI features in JIRA that suddenly struck me as being …
EJB 3.0 Persistence is hot and coming. The fact that persistence is handled the same way, in and outside the EJB container, for Web Applications, Java Client applications and …
EJB QL or Enterprise Java Beans Query Language has been introduced in the EJB 2.0 Specification, back in 2001. For some reason, it never grew on me. I did …
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
In the wake of my last post – Getting started with Java Server Faces (JSF) using Apache MyFaces – in JDeveloper 10.1.3EA – I will continue my explorations of …
I just read Wilfred’s appeal to anyone interested in (free) Oracle Developer Days in The Netherlands on his OraTransplant Weblog: Free Oracle Java Technology Days in the Benelux. How …
Seen so much, heard so much, read so much: time to actually do a little with Apache MyFaces. I am using the blog article by Jonas Jacobi as my …
One of the annotations available to us when specifying the EJB 3.0 Persistence metadata for our Entities is the @Version annotation. The specification states: “The Version annotation specifies the …
I have done a fair bit of Entity Relationship Modeling. It’s one of the things I probably like most about my job. And one of the things in ERD …
In an earlier post, we embarked on a tour of EJB 3.0 Persistence for J2SE (stand alone out-of-container) applications: Getting Started with EJB 3.0 Persistence out-of-container using the Reference …
The new Raptor tool for Database Development contains a feature called Snippets. Snippets are predefined fragments of SQL or PL/SQL code that you can easily include in a piece …
Project Raptor, announced and demonstrated at Oracle Open World, this Fall, has now been released (sort of, as it is still an early adopter release). A free download (60Mb) …
In a previous article –Getting Started with EJB 3.0 Persistence out-of-container using the Reference Implementation (GlassFish) – I have introduced GlassFish, the official Reference Implementation for EJB 3.0, and …
In this article I will report on my very first steps with EJB 3.0 Persistence in a J2SE application – that is: outside the context of the J2EE Container. …
Just browsing through my RSS feeds-reader, I stumbled across three very interesting announcements: JSR-220, the Enterprise JavaBean 3.0 specification, has reached Proposed Final Draft status. Programmers should expect that …
We just received word about the results from the RAD race at JavaPolis 2005. 12 teams competed against each other, each bringing its favourite technology stack. It is a …