ASCII art as a DSL for unit testing
Complicated tree structures are being used a lot within my current project. Tree nodes have elements behind them. An element is unique, but there can be multiple tree nodes …
Category: Java
ADF skinning and resources
With my current, ADF Faces 11g, project, we have a requirement that the default text in the error message box is customized. Instead of ‘Messages for this page are …
Leveraging RESTful Services from Java applications using Jersey (Introduction)
While researching for the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook, I wanted to take a quick look at REST(ful) WebServices and see how those can be integrated into the SCA …
Configure JDeveloper 11g to work with Spring 2.5 and AOP
In a recent article I described the interaction between JavaServer Faces (1.2) and Spring Framework (2.5.x): https://technology.amis.nl/blog/6655/spring-a-surprise-on-a-jsf-developer-how-spring-beans-can-become-jsf-managed-beans. I created a JDeveloper 11g web application that I ran on the …
Spring a surprise on a JSF developer – how Spring beans can become "JSF Managed Beans"
December 11, 2009
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Recently I was looking at a JavaServer Faces application, that did something relatively simple – but was exhibiting strange behavior. The output shown on the page (and this is …
Java EE 6 and GlassFish 3.0 released!
December 10, 2009
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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In the past few month several Java EE 6 related JSRs (Java Specification Requests) have been finalized. The final ballot for them ended on November 30 and all were …
ADF: simple EL expression to a method with params on a bean
December 4, 2009
Cyber Security, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Based upon an old blogpost of Lucas “How to call methods from EL expressions- pre JSP 2.0 trick for JSPs with JSTL” I’ve created an ADF bean with a …
ADF 11g – the native AutoSuggest behavior
The recent ADF 11gR1 PS1 release introduced a component we have been waiting for: the inputText with AutoSuggest. An inputText component that will present suggested values to the user …
ADF 11g: Carousel is not just for images – on carousels with panelbox, tabs, panelform and input components
Following on the heels of Luc’s excellent post on the new ADF 11g carousel component – https://technology.amis.nl/blog/6514/jdeveloper-11112-carousel-component-as-master-and-detail – is another article that shows off this visually attractive component, using …
JDeveloper 11g PS 1 has been released – cool stuff!
November 14, 2009
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server
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Last month during Oracle Open World I wrote an article on the upcoming features of PatchSet 1 for JDeveloper 11g: . Now this release has been published and is …
5 day ADF 11g Training – vanaf maandag 26 oktober
Maandag 26 oktober start bij AMIS de vijf-daagse ADF 11g training (ontwikkeld in samenwerking met Chris Muir van SAGE – Perth, Australië). Tijdens deze training zullen Luc Bors en …
OOW 2009: Experiences with Oracle WebCenter 11g: Implementing SOA with a User Interface
October 14, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Web HTML5 CSS3, WebCenter
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One of the sessions I am (co-)presenting at Oracle Open World 2009 is on ‘applying the concepts of SOA to and achieving the SOA objectives with User Interfaces’. …
OOW 2009: James Gosling speaking at Oracle Open World
October 13, 2009
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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James Gosling, the “father of Java”, is the hero, the star, the god of many Java conferences such as JavaOne. I have seen the adoration and worship, as …
OOW 2009 – And they call that a "patch set"? Marvels coming up in ADF 11gR1 PS 1
October 12, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Last Friday I attended a product briefing at Oracle HQ that prepared me for today’s Oracle Open World 2009 keynote presentation by Ted Farrell on development tools and …
OOW 2009: Castle in the Clouds: SaaS-Enabling Oracle ADF Faces Applications
October 12, 2009
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Web HTML5 CSS3
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It will be my last presentation at Oracle Open World 2009 – how to turn any ADF application into a SaaS application – an application suitable for deployment …
OOW 2009: Introducing SOA and Oracle SOA Suite 11g for Database Professionals
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The Oracle Open World 2009 conference is almost underway. On Monday 12th October I will do two presentations, and I am done preparing the first one of them …
Introducing Oracle 11gR2 Edition Based Redefinition or: On Parallel Application Universes
One of the most spectacular new facilities in Release 2 of the Oracle 11g Database is called Edition Based Redefinition – not a name perhaps that suggests any spectacle. …
Deploying and running ADF 11g applications on WebLogic 11g
September 12, 2009
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Last week we had some problems with the deployment of our ADF 11g applications on a stand alone WebLogic 11g (10.3.1) server. One of the issues that kept recurring …
Creating a custom JSF 1.2 component – with facets, resource handling, events and listeners, valueExpression and methodExpression attributes
I occasionally create custom JavaServer Faces components. Just enough to sort of remember what the steps are, but not nearly frequently enough to quickly put a new component together. …
Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – LISTAGG – New aggregation operator for creating (comma) delimited strings
In our series on the 11g R2 release of the Oracle RDBMS, AMIS staff discusses various functions, features an facilities that have been added, improved or extended in …
JDeveloper 10.1.3.5 released
The JDeveloper maintainance release 10.1.3.5 is now available at OTN; the ADF version is 10.1.3.43.06. One of the most noticable bugfixes is nr. 7482935, ERRORS SHOWN TWICE IN AF:MESSAGES …
Report from presentation ‘JPA 2.0 – What’s new’
July 15, 2009
AMIS, IT, Java, PL/SQL, Software Development, Software Engineering, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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The Java Specification Request 317 (JSR-317) aka JavaTM Persistence 2.0, (JPA 2.0) has finally reached the last stage, “Completion of Reference Implementation (RI) and Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK)”, before …
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Recently I presented for the fourth time at the annual ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference. It’s really a great conference that I recommend to every Oracle consultant. It features great presentations, …
ADF 11g PanelDashboard; configure your own dashboard
July 9, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Tools, Web/Java
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With the recent ADF release a new component is introduced: The panelDashboard component. A component that is easy to use and offers a very visual presentation. With this component we can …
Latest ADF 11g (11.1.1.1.0) Rich Client Demo is available
Today I came across a brief post on the OTN Forum for JDeveloper and ADF (http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=923587&tstart=0). The latest demo application (11.1.1.1.0) for ADF 11g Faces RC can be downloaded …
Launchdate 1st July: JDeveloper 11.1.1.1.0 (Bulldog) – Interesting new features
As part of the announcement on July 1st around Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g, Oracle released the next point release (11.1.1.0.2 => 11.1.1.1.0) of JDeveloper. And while the change …
Fast Swap in WebLogic 10.3 (and JDeveloper 11g) – redeploy after compile in running application
One of the cool new things I learned about here at the ODTUG 2009 conference is the fast swap feature in WebLogic Server 10.3 and above. So far, …
Oracle WebCenter 11g – Foundation for Oracle Fusion Applications and possibly your ADF applications or Enterprise 2.0 Portal as well
I have had a sweet spot for Oracle WebCenter for quite some time now. As early as 2007 I already did a presentation at ODTUG on WebCenter (10g). …
That's Rich! Putting a smile on ADF Faces (presenting at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009)
The ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 conference started on Sunday with four parallel symposia followed by a stunning demonstration of the upcoming Fusion Applications product based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g …
Dinsdag 16 juni – Verslag van JavaOne 2009 – in woorden, plaatjes en veel demo's
Verslag van JavaOne 2009 – in woorden, plaatjes en veel demo’s San Francisco, de eerste week van juni. Rond de 10.000 Java ontwikkelaars bezetten het Moscone …
Publish a WebService from a POJA (plain old Java application) – that is: out of the container using EndPoint class
This very brief article will demonstrate a very useful feature of Java 6 Standard Edition – that means: the Java as it is running in any stand-alone application. …
Last preprations and first impressions from JavaOne 2009 – guess who is not a sponsor (not even an iron or wood level?)
As JavaOne – preceded by CommunityOne which kicks off tomorrow morning – is approaching fast, this might be a good moment to discuss some of the early rumours, the …
Bloom Filters, Hierarchical Profiling, Synopses & One pass distinct sampling, jumping the GAPP … – feast for DBAs (considered harmful..)
May 18, 2009
Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, IT, Java, Oracle, PL/SQL, Software Engineering
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It’s Monday night and a select company of DBAs and Database developers have gathered at AMIS HQ in Nieuwegein for the ‘Looking Back at Hotsos 2009’ session. It …
ADF 11g – Invoke a Popup from a Popup
May 18, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Web/Java
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Today I was triggered by a question on the JDeveloper forum about invoking a popup from a backing bean. Actually some time ago I had to build that solution …
RichFaces plugin for NetBeans updated
About a year ago, during JavaOne 2008, Geertjan Wielenga and I created NetBeans modules for JBoss RichFaces support. Last week we updated the modules so now version 3.3.0.GA of …
ADF Faces RC – Highlight partially refreshed areas to enlighten the user about automatic updates
One of the rich aspects of ADF Faces RC (and most Web 2.0/AJAX components) is functionality that performs Partial Page Refresh operations: actions by the user trigger asynchronous communication between …
Using a general superclass to refresh SQL-calculated attributes in your dirty ADFBC View Object
In our current ADF10g project we have many refresh issues. After an insert or update some view object attribute values are not shown. Many attributes of our entity based …
How to let your user know his session has expired in an ADF10g application
In a proper and user-friendly application, it is a good idea to let your user know when his session has expired. Or to inform him that his session is …
Tag Cloud analysis in SQL and PL/SQL – Using Collections, Table Operator, Multiset and Collect operator
Another world shattering topic: analyzing tag clouds. This article describes a very simple first step for some analysis at database level of tags that have been associated with database …
How to declaratively instruct ADF Faces RC to partially refresh other components upon an event
ADF Faces RC has built in support for AJAX and Partial Page Refresh. Through the autoSubmit and partialSubmit attributes, we can indicate that a value change or an action …