Author: Lucas Jellema
Selenium, a test-tool for Web Applications, was the subject of one of the quicky presentations (15 minutes max) on JavaPolis this week. It is described as: Selenium is a …
JavaPolis, the major Java conference currently going on in Antwerp, Belgium, has multiple parallel tracks most of the time. Four or more sessions to choose from. So you cannot …
There are some major waves in J(2)EE territory captivating much of the focus of the audience at this year’s JavaPolis – and beyond. One undoubtedly is Java Server Faces. …
JavaPolis 2005 is in town. Well, not my town, it is actually in Antwerp in Belgium. It is the largest conference on Java/J2EE technology in Europe, with this year …
A big announcement today at the first day of JavaPolis 2005, the biggest Java event east of the Atlantic: Oracle will donate its ADF Faces technology to the Open …
Since December 2004, we participate in the Oracle Warehouse Builder beta program for 10gR2 – the Paris release. Yesterday, I downloaded the Beta 4 Release, the most recent stage …
Yesterday we received another book shipment. Unfortunately I did not get all the books I had asked for, but they should make a good read over the holiday season. …
Next week, we are off to Antwerp. A crew of seven AMIS Java/J2EE developers will visit JavaPolis, the largest Java/J2EE conference on this side of the Atlantic. I will …
For the Designer 10g/WebForms 10g project I am involved with, we had a rather unappealing task to allocate. It involved an unknown number of items prompts that ended with …
JHeadstart can generate a number of powerful search facilities, such as the Quick Search widget and Advanced Search area. It supports several different serach operators such as contains, like, …
While browsing through the OTN Forum on SQL and PL/SQL, I found a question that asked ‘I can copy a table using the create table as select * from …
In this article I will demonstrate how I implemented a fairly complex requirement from one of my customers in a very real Java/J2EE Web Application. This requirement involved a …
As of now, JHeadstart 10.1.2.2 is available from http://cso.oracle.com – for organisations who have the JHeadstart Supplement Option. I have recently been making fixes and extensions to JHeadstart Application …
Virtual Private Database is a quite powerful concept. It lets you set up a mechanism in the database that dynamically appends additional filter-conditions to the queries performed by end …
I would not be offended if you were to decide to quickly skip this article. It ain’t much. However, for my current project it proved pretty important, this apparent …
Triggered by Steve Muench’s weblog, I stumbled across a recent posting by the JHeadstart Team on their current and future activity: The Future of JHeadstart. The big news of …
Validation of business rules, of data oriented business logic, is one of my favorite recurring challenges. Around these rules, there are always interesting discussions about how and especially where …
This article serves two purposes: it extends the JHeadstart Application Generator to set UIX items to "required" based on a new custom Mandatory property – instead of driven from …
AMIS has just published a booklet (250 pages) with the best articles from Magazines, Conferences and this Weblog. A dozen different authors, specialists in various areas such as Oracle …
In my current project – with Oracle Designer 10g, WebForms, Headstart and CDM RuleFrame, Repository Object Browser, CVS, Oracle SCM and Jira for Incident Management as well as TransferWare …
Finally, I have attended to one of my long running frustrations with CDM RuleFrame: the Business Rule Design Transformer, that key Headstart utility that takes Business Rule definitions in …
For one of our sessions for the Knowledge Center Oracle Server Development I had to prepare a presentation and demonstration on new Oracle 10gR2 features in SQL and PL/SQL …
From previous posts, you may have understood that I have been using VPD policies – Virtual Private Database or Fine Grained Access Control – quite extensively in my current …
The next edition of the yearly reunion of the best (and nicest) Oracle Developers in the world is going to be held from June 17th to June 21st, in …
From the OTN Series on “Mastering .NET Application Development with Oracle”, this installment on taking advantage of .NET stored procedures in your applications. See Using .NET Stored Procedures in …
A little while ago I wrote the article Oracle Designer Check In – synchronize P_VERSION argument on this weblog. In it, I discuss the desirability of having Oracle Designer …
On my current project, we had a request from the customer to produce an overview of all the (Database) Roles in the Application with a list of Modules, Screens …
Released on 25th October 2005, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that’s …
Desktop Conference 2006, February 21-23 – ODTUG is once again joining forces with the Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse SIG, and Oracle Corporation in presenting this three-day virtual conference. …
As you can probably tell from the topics and nature of my blog-postings recently, I am very deepy involved in a project using classical Oracle development technology such as …
For the Fall 2005 issue of OGh Visie, the magazine of the Dutch Oracle User Group, I have written an article introducing the most enticing new features for Application …
Again a very good post on a 10gR2 feature by Natalka Roshak. This time she writes about the Asynchronous Commit in 10gR2. See: 10gR2 New Feature: Asynchronous Commit Asynchronous …
My VPD policies were causing troubles when I was running the Forms: ORA-28113 Policy Predicate Has Error . I could not easily figure out which Policy it was, as …
There are quite a few neat tricks we can steal from other technology stacks and communities for use with PL/SQL development. I have recently written an article on AOP …
It can be both quite useful and rather difficult to monitor the events taking place in Oracle Designer and/or Oracle SCM (Software Configuration Manager). Keeping track of all Check …
At some point during the last year I had gotten the impression that Geronimo was dead. It had missed its scheduled release date – and no new date or …
Source code control for PL/SQL is often discussed in the organizations that I encounter. The database itself will always hold the latest version of the PL/SQL objects we are …
Recently I wrote a post about the failure of the TAPI (table API) generated by Oracle Designer to work together with Merge operations: Designer TAPI triggers fail on SQL …
The latest shipment of books – just arrived today – contains among others: Writing Effective Use Cases (Paperback) by Alistair CockburnPublisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1st edition (January 15, 2000); ISBN: …
Interesting news on Friday: the Oracle acquisition – the eleventh this year – of Innobase. Innobase? You may very well have never heard of it. Unless you are a …
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