Author: Marcos Claver

Is Jinitiator going away I am wondering for a long time. Especially now the the Sun JPI can easily be used with Web Forms. My colleague Marco pointed me …

BI Publisher (named XML-Publisher until a few weeks ago, but what is in the name) offers besides the possibility to create documents also the possibility to interact with the …

Last week I participated in a ADF workshop given at AMIS by Peter Ebell and Lucas Jellema. "I followed a similar workshop almost 2 years ago. Back then it was …

A few weeks ago one of my customers told me that he lost a sales opportunity because the customer who he was trying to sell his software too had …

This week I have played a bit with XML-Publisher. The goal was take some reports and try to migrate them to XML-Publisher version. Yesterday I posted a blog about …

Last week I experimented with XML-Publisher a bit. The goal was to figure how to built a matrix report with simular layout as an Oracle Reports matrix report. Would …

IE 7 Webforms jvm.dll crash

XML-Publisher

Yesterday we ran into Oracle bug 1004056 while coding a module for a customer. I hear people think "Oracle Forms 60 that’s old". Yes it is but it is …

Some time ago I experimented with XML-Publisher 50 Desktop. The tool of which it looks like it is going to replace Oracle Reports in the future. Although the desktop …

Last week I delivered a Forms module which invoked the Oracle Reports server by submitting report requests displaying the report on the screen using the Web.Show_document procedure. One thing …

For a customer had to create an Oracle Forms functionality which would need to make several requests to the Oracle Report Server. The customer wanted me to generate a …

Jonathan Lewis Optimizing Oak

Oracle announces in the November/December issue of Oracle magazine that it will release XML Publisher as a standalone version. This is very good news for all the users that …

Besides VPD (as described in my previous posts) and views with functions you can also secure your data using Oracle Label Security (OLS). OLS, in contrast to the other …

In my prior post about VPD I stated that VPD is not a new functionality Oracle added to 10g Enterprise Edition. In fact it was already available in the …

I was not that aware of the fact that there were other (better) ways to secure data without using functions in views until I was involved in a project …

Ever asked a PL/SQL code developer to create documentation for his code, the way Javadoc is able to create for Java code? It is possible using the open-source tool …

One can come up with several reasons to store your Oracle Reports output. Especially in cases where it needed to prove to authorities that the document you delivered was …

Ever had someone ask you:â€?I have this Oracle Report that I need to email or print to file. I have to run this report multiple times with only one …