One of my favorite areas in ADF Faces always has been the Data Visualization [Tags] aka DVTs. I feel that we make far too little use of the power of visualization to present information and even call to action to our end user instead of raw data – as we […]
Oracle ADF
This category contains articles that relate not just to Java in the Oracle domain, but specifically to ADF (Application Development Framework, including ADF BC, ADF Binding and ADF Faces) and JHeadstart
ADF 12.1.3 (& JDeveloper 12.1.3) New Features
June 26th – Release Day for Fusion Middleware 12.1.3. The focus is mainly on SOA Suite 12c and WebLogic 12.1.3. An interesting new release is also JDeveloper 12.1.3 together with ADF 12.1.3. This latest release of the FMW IDE and the strategic development framework has a number of interesting new […]
Using ADF DVT Bubble Chart to display the number of goals per match per city at the World Cup Football 2014
The final result – which is obtained in an incredibly easy manner – is shown in the next figure: The bubble chart shows bubbles per match. The X and Y coordinate of the match-bubble are taken as longitude and lattitude. That means, the bubbles are roughly laid out in the […]
ADF in Action – slides and demonstration from OUGF 2014
During this week’s OUGF 2014 Harmony conference in Haltia, Finland I presented on Oracle’s premier application development framework: ADF. ADF is the strategic application development framework for Oracle, a core element in Fusion Middleware. ADF can be used to create large scale, enterprise applications. It can be used to create […]
ADF FIFA 2014 World Cup Challenge
On May 22nd AMIS and Oracle Netherlands launched an exclusive Enterprise to Mobility Challenge around the FIFA World Cup. Only attendees of the Enterprise to Mobility Conference or the JDeveloper / ADF community event can enter this exclusive Challenge. Participants are challenged to combine Cool UX designs and data visualizations […]
Live Blog – AMIS Oracle Enterprise Mobility conference (21-23 May 2014) – Last Updated May 23rd – 16:30 CET
This article will provide a live account of the three day Enterprise Mobility conference, hosted by AMIS in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Oracle ADF Product Managers Frank Nimphius and Chris Muir are the keynote speakers. They are joined by Willem de Pater, Steven Davelaar and Lancy Silveira from Oracle and Luc […]
Donderdagavond 22 mei – het ADF community evenement met Oracle product managers, ADF 12.1.3 en de ADF World Cup Challenge
Donderdag 22 mei organiseert AMIS in samenwerking met Oracle het ADF Community event. Voor iedereen die zich in Nederland en omgeving bezig houdt met ADF is dit een prachtige gelegenheid om peers (vakbroeders en -zusters) tegen te komen, kennis te maken met Oracle ADF product managers Chris Muir en Frank […]
Training : Oracle ADF 11g Applicatie Ontwikkeling 12-14 & 19-20 mei 2014
In mei geeft Oracle ACE Luc Bors weer een ADF 11g training. Deze training wordt gegeven in het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. In deze training leer je de basis van ADF. Een training op basis van presentatie, demonstratie en hands on, doorspekt met best practices en voorbeelden uit de […]
ADF for the Enterprise and beyond – 3-day conference for senior developers and application architects
On May 21st, 22nd and 23rd – AMIS and Oracle join forces for a three day event around enterprise application development with Oracle Fusion Middleware. The event targets senior (ADF) developers and application architects. It addresses many of the themes currently or shortly relevant to any organization: multi device UI, […]
Troubleshooting ADF ViewObject Range Paging Issues
ADF BC ViewObjects provide a very valuable mechanism to page through large data sets so that a user can navigate to a specific page in the results. Range Paging fetches and caches only the current page of rows in the ViewObject row cache (at the cost of another query execution) […]
ADF Runtime Diagnostics: Instrumenting your ADF Application – Part 2
In a series of blog articles I show how you can instrument your ADF Application key actions. Instrumenting gives visibility and insight of what is happening inside the ADF application and in the ADF framework (what methods and queries are executed, when and how often). These runtime diagnostics can be very effective in […]
ADF Runtime Diagnostics: Instrumenting your ADF Application – Part 1
In a series of blog articles I will show how you can instrument your ADF Application key actions. Instrumenting gives visibility and insight of what is happening inside the ADF application and in the ADF framework (what methods and queries are executed, when and how often). These runtime diagnostics can be very effective […]
ADF Performance Tuning: Tips on How to Limit ADF BC Memory Consumption
This blog contains tips and tricks on to how limit the JVM memory consumption of ADF applications. Like other web applications, Oracle ADF applications potentially use a lot of JVM memory. Many times, the root cause of a high memory usage is that application data retrieved from the database into memory […]
ADF Performance Monitor: Customer Case Video
The ADF Performance Monitor is designed for measuring, analyzing, tuning, and checking the performance of Oracle ADF applications. The monitor can track and collect crucial (production) performance information of the application’s runtime ADF components that are not standard provided by Oracle. It helps development, QA, and operation teams to detect, […]
ADF Performance Monitor: Detecting and Analyzing a High ADF BC Memory Consumption
Like other web applications, Oracle ADF applications potentially use a lot of JVM memory. Many times, the root cause of a high memory usage is that application data retrieved from the database into memory is not properly limited; hundreds or thousands of rows (with too many attributes) are fetched and […]
Taskflow inputparameters explained
During one of the bi-weekly ADF knowledge sessions I organized at a customer one of the questions that popped up was how the inputparameters on taskflows worked. People got really confused with what to enter and where. In this blog post I’d like to outline the basics of what to […]
ADF performance tuning: Whitepaper published on the ADF Performance Monitor
The AMIS ADF Performance Monitor is an advanced tool designed for measuring, analyzing, improving, and checking the performance of Oracle ADF applications. The monitor can track and collect crucial (production) performance information of the application’s runtime ADF components that are not standard provided by Oracle. It helps development, QA, and […]
ADF Performance Tuning: Improve Your Oracle ADF App Response Time by as Much as 70 Percent
Performance needs to be ingrained in your application – it cannot be added in during the last stages of development. In this video I discuss how you can optimize the performance of your Oracle ADF Fusion application, diagnose and solve typical performance problems, and build an efficient, responsive, scalable ADF […]
ADF performance tuning: Overview Video published on the ADF Performance Monitor
A good performance is the key to the success of a web application. Oracle ADF applications are no exception to this rule. ADF performance tuning can be time intensive, costly and quite a challenge when performance issues require developers to delve deep into the inner workings of the ADF framework. […]
JDeveloper 12c Audit Framework extended
The UK Oracle User group (UKOUG) held their technology conference 2013 in Manchester. Wilfred van der Deijl and Richard Olrichs had a very interesting presentation about extending the standard audit framework build in JDeveloper. The standard audit framework build in JDeveloper is a powerfull tool for you to check your […]
Deploy Oracle ADF Essentials web application on Tomcat
Although deployment of Oracle ADF 11g web applications on Tomcat is not officially supported, we have successfully deployed several ADF 11g applications on Tomcat 6. In fact, once you know which adjustments need to be made, it is easy to deploy an ADF application on Tomcat. This post will show […]
ADF Classic mistakes and Worst practices (abstract from UKOUG 2013)
The UKOUG Technology conference in Manchester hosted several very interesting sessions regarding ADF best and worst practices. Some slides are publicly available (see links at the bottom of this blog) but since there where multiple session and speakers I decided to write this blog post and share with you the […]
ADF 12c: Adaptive applications through reusable bindings using 12c Dynamic components, runtime switching from ADF BC to a POJO data control v.v.
The UK Oracle User group (UKOUG) held their Tech13, technology conference 2013, in Manchester 2 weeks ago. Duncan Mills held an interesting presentation on “Adaptive Applications”. He explained how to create fully reusable applications. Applications that can be used for different datasources and database tables. Just select a data model […]
Oracle ADF Virtual Developer Day 2013
Are you in Europe and looking for a free ADF event that you can attend without traveling ? Stop looking now! Tomorrow Tuesday – November 26th from 9am – 1pm GMT you can attend the Oracle ADF Virtual Developer Day 2013. This is an online event that provides sessions that […]
The AMIS Summary of Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is available for download – 60-page white paper
Oracle OpenWorld is a monster event – 10Ks of attendees, thousands of sessions and 100Ks of private conversations that all help convey and define the message about Oracle’s strategy and the roadmap for its close to 4000 thousand products. Concurrent with OOW is the JavaOne conference that – at a […]
OOW13: summarizing one week and 2000 sessions in 3 hours and a bit – the yearly AMIS OOW Review session – 10th October
On Thursday 10th of October, the 12 man strong AMIS delegation at Oracle OpenWorld and JavaOne 2013 will present its findings in a 3 hour session at AMIS HQ in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. You are welcome to attend this free session (from 16.30 on, food provided). Please register here: http://www.amis.nl/nl-NL/evenementen/technologie-evenementen/oow-review. […]
OOW13: What questions to get answered and plans to see evolved at this year at Oracle OpenWorld Conference
As I am about to start my ninth Oracle OpenWorld Conference, I am wondering what this year’s conference will have in store for me. My schedule is largely filled up, I know who I am going to meet, where I have to speak and where I need to go. Now […]
Oracle OpenWorld & JavaOne Review bijeenkomst – 10 oktober
Op 22 september begint in San Francisco de Oracle OpenWorld: hét internationale evenement waar Oracle haar productstrategie presenteert en Oracle-specialisten ervaringen uitwisselen. Naast Oracle OpenWorld wordt ook de JavaOne georganiseerd, internationaal trefpunt voor de Java-community. AMIS heeft de traditie om uitgebreid verslag te doen van beide conferenties. Dat doen we […]
Case Study: A Case of Fusion Middleware
The story of NOPERU – the National Organization for Permits for Emissions and Resource Usage – is an interesting one. Because it reveals the business drivers for embarking on a journey of modernization, enterprise architecture and application of SOA principles using Oracle Fusion Middleware. It also outlines a roadmap: which […]
Het Oracle OpenWorld Preview Evenement (5 september 2013) – 15 sprekers & sessies
Vanaf 22 september vindt in San Francisco de Oracle OpenWorld conferentie plaats: hét evenement waar Oracle haar productstrategie uit de doeken doet en waar Oracle specialisten van over de hele wereld ervaringen uitwisselen. Tegelijk met Oracle OpenWorld wordt ook de JavaOne conferentie georganiseerd, het trefpunt voor de wereldwijde Java gemeenschap. […]
ADF 12c: Using WebSockets to implement client to client push (in a scalable manner)
WebLogic 12c (12.1.2) has support for WebSockets. ADF 12c runs on WebLogic 12c. Therefore, we should be able to leverage that WebSockets support in an ADF application. And indeed we can, as this article describes. It will explain the creation of a simple application – the SlidePresenter – that allows […]
ADF 12c – The Hierarchical Mystery Tour – Treemap, Sunburst, Treetable, Hierarchy Viewer and Thematic Map
Hierarchical data is common phenomenon in the real world. Presenting such data to allow users to quickly grasp the composition of numbers, to compare quantities, to navigate through a data set and to have a pleasant experience with potentially dreary facts is quite valuable. ADF 12c (as well as previous […]
ADF DVT: Sunburst to quickly inspect the hierarchical composition
The recent JDeveloper/ADF 11gR1 Patch Set 6 release introduced the Sunburst component, one of the many data visualization components in ADF. Sunburst (sometimes called Rings Chart) provides an attractive and useful way to quickly learn about the hierarchical build of certain values. One well known example is the space usage […]
14 augustus – gratis seminar Oracle ADF 12c, JDeveloper 12c en WebLogic 12c revealed
Dit is de zomer van de 12c-lanceringen. Na de database zijn sinds vorige week Oracle ADF 12c, Oracle JDeveloper 12c, en Oracle WebLogic 12c beschikbaar. Met zoveel nieuwe mogelijkheden dat AMIS op 14 augustus een gratis seminar organiseert waarin we de nieuwe versies introduceren, becommentariëren en vooral ook demonstreren. Maar […]
JDeveloper 12c & ADF 12c: Launch of the next generation
Last week – just when I was at the far end of a narrow internet connection – Oracle released JDeveloper 12c (12.1.2) along with ADF 12c and WebLogic 12c (12.1.2). Hot on the heels of Oracle Database 12c (12.1.2), which was released on June 25th – about two weeks earlier. […]
Live match report using JMS, BAM, ADF Push and Data Visualization
Real time events can be translated into a live visual representation using a largely declarative approach. Events can be published for example on a JMS Topic. Using Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitor, component of the SOA Suite), this JMS Topic can be subscribed to. The events arriving on the Topic […]
My Report from the ODTUG Kscope13
Last thursday Kscope13 ended. I liked the conference very much and here’s my report from the ODTUG Kscope 2013 in New Orleans. The venue, the Sheraton Hotel, was in the centre of New Orleans on the border of the French Quarter. It was on a walking distance from the Mississippi […]
Automatic deployment .ear file to Oracle Application Server 10.1.3 (OAS) with Ant tasks
In this post I would like to share an example how to deploy an .ear file with an Ant script to the Oracle Application Server 10.1.3 (OAS). Automatic deployment can help improve the release process. First of all because manual deployment usually costs time of the developers. Especially the lead […]
ADF Academy launched- interactive, entertaining and educational
Last week I was prompted to take a look at the new Oracle ADF Academy that has just published its first lesson: Developing Applications with ADF Mobile. As you probably already know, there are tons of resources on ADF. Blogs, books, tutorials, Oracle by Example instructions, YouTube movies, extensive documentations, […]
ADF Mobile : Oracle eCourse available
Today Oracle published the first in a series of online eLearning training materials. The ADF Academy presents free and online : Developing Applications with ADF Mobile. The main goal is to deliver technical training material to everybody that needs it. You get an online training, where you can view audio […]