Assume a browser based (or desktop electron) stand alone, client side only application. Multiple users are working with that application at the same time, on their own laptops and at (possibly very) different locations, possibly across the globe. It is conceivable that they are working on a common object. A […]
Frontend technology
Introduction to D3 Force for Simulation and Animation
The D3 library is great for creating rich and interactive data visualizations running in your browser. D3 is a JavaScript library that provides an easy bridge between the power of SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) in the browser and your (and my) own JavaScript applications. Whether you use React, Angular, Vue […]
Starting my own Game Studio–on the ease and the power of SVG
My very first steps in programming consisted of typing in the BASIC program listings from computer magazines. Usually very simple games with very poor UX. That probably is the closest I got to “creating” games. And then I went into computers professionally – with a primary focus on the backend, […]
Building my own Video Recorder–Automating Scheduled Streaming Video Recording on Windows 10
My objective: create a mechanism for recording streaming video on my Windows laptop on a preprogrammed timestamp and channel. My motivation: show that I can do this (using AutoIt, OBS, Windows Task Scheduler an Windows Sandbox) and create a way around the limitation of my current TV provider (Ziggo in […]
Schedule Spotify Good Morning Playlist–using AutoIt and Windows Task Scheduler
I would like to have my Spotify playlist played to me every morning at 8AM sharp. Using the Windows Task Scheduler and an AutoIt script I can have the Spotify App started and subsequently automate the steps to run my preferred Spotify playlist. I can even wake my computer up […]
Capturing those elusive Video Streams on Windows 10
I have tried to capture various video streams running in my browser using a plethora of screen capture and video recording tools. However, some streams prove hard to pin down. When I activate the recording tool – all of a sudden the video goes blank or black. And my recording […]
Inject Generic Floating Toolbar into Any Web Application or Site using Playwright
The objective I am pursuing is the following: I want to be able to open a web site or web application and show a floating toolbar on top of the web site’s content. As I am making my way through the site or application, I can use functions from the […]
Use Playwright to Inject Shortcut Keys into Any Web Page – for example to download all images
Adding a short cut key combination to a web application or web site can be quite powerful. When the short cut key combination is activated – things can happen. Things that you have defined on top of everything the web application already offers. In this article I describe how I […]
What you could do if you had a free, tireless browser operator?! Introducing Playwright.
Browsers are our primary platform for running applications and retrieving information. We have to use browsers to test applications, verify health and current performance of applications, look up data and download (as) files, submit information, and do much of our daily work. Suppose we had a new colleague – who […]
Getting Started with serverless Azure Static WebApps (React, Angular, Vue, .. + backend)
Azure Static WebApps is a fairly new Azure service, currently in preview. Azure WebApps is a managed, serverless service that allows us to quickly deploy and publicly expose a static web application (from a global content delivery network) – such as single page applications as created using Angular, React, Vue […]
ADF Performance Monitor New Whitepaper Published
We are happy to announce that we have a new whitepaper on the ADF Performance Monitor. This blog publishes a new whitepaper that gives more information about the architecture, features and implementation of the ADF Performance Monitor. It is updated with the many features of our new major version 9.5. Recently […]
ADF Performance Monitor: New Introduction Video (3:40)
Are you unable to pinpoint frustrating blind spots and recurring problems in your ADF application? This video gives a quick introduction of the features of the ADF Performance Monitor, an advanced monitor specifically designed for Oracle ADF applications.
ADF Performance Monitor: Thread Wait and Blocked Time
Last week we had a new version of the ADF Performance Monitor available – version 9.5. In this blog I will write on one of the new features; thread wait and thread blocked time of requests. Sometimes we cannot explain a poor performance, disruptions, hiccups. If we dive into the […]
ADF Performance Monitor New Version 9.5
We have again a major new version of the ADF Performance Monitor available – version 9.5 ! We have added many new valuable features and improvements. Many overview screens have got a facelift and new charts. In several blogs I will write on them. This blog is on one of […]
Further customizing a Grafana Custom Plugin in React
In my previous blog I created a custom plugin for Grafana with React and more specifically the Material UI TreeView. It’s possible to customize the plugin even further, as I will show you in this post. CSS Styling can be added when needed. Keep in mind that Grafana uses a […]
ADF Performance Monitor – Major New Version 9.0 (Part 1)
I’m very excited to announce that we have a major new version of the ADF Performance Monitor – version 9.0 ! We have added many valuable new features; new metrics that can detect and help explain poor performance, disruptions, hiccups, and help troubleshooting ADF applications. Like operating system metrics: the […]
Creating a Custom Plugin in Grafana using React
Grafana gives you a straightforward way of creating dashboards for monitoring metrics, like status and health of IoT devices. Several types of visualizations are already available when developing the dashboard. If the choices aren’t sufficient, Grafana supports the ability to add custom plugins. In this post I will create a custom plugin in React, which can be used in Grafana, in order to show data in a nested tree table.
Dynamic tabs with Angular 6+ and ng-bootstrap
One of our Angular applications required the use of dynamic tabs. Since the project already uses ng-bootstrap components and bootstrap for the styling, I decided to use the tabset component from ng-bootstrap. The tabs needed to fulfil the following requirements:– A tab can be opened and closed.– Tabs can display […]
ADF Performance Monitor: Error Diagnostics
Application errors are often hard to retrieve, or take a lot of time to resolve. When you are suffering from errors, and have a lack of clarity when errors happen, you would like to have useful error diagnostics for analysis. The ADF Performance Monitor automatically captures detailed diagnostics for each […]
Customer Case: New Server Infrastructure Halves Server Process Time
Recently I was analyzing and troubleshooting the performance of an ADF application. Much was already improved before I came. Due to a very recent new hardware/infrastructure environment, the server and database process time was nearly 50% faster after migration. In this blog I want to show you the impact it […]
InfluxDB V2.0 – Stack Implementation Proof of Concept
This blogpost will give you detailed instructions and information regarding the InfluxDB stack. Since February 2019 InfluxDB now consists not only the database itself, but also Telegraf, Chronograf and Kapacitor. Later you’ll read about what every part of the stack does. 18-2-2019: Living on the bloody edge, do not run […]
How to use any Oracle JET Component in VBCS
Oracle JET has more components than available in VBCS. Using Web Components you can extend VBCS yourself with the missing JET components. In Oracle JET you can add a Paging control to a table. For that you have to use a PagingDataSource. The Paging Control and PagingDataSource are (out of […]
ADF Performance Monitor brings performance improvements and Insight at Intris
Intris is the leading Belgian provider of freight forwarding, customs and warehousing management solutions. Headquartered in Antwerp, Intris provides its integrated software and cloud-based solutions to logistics services providers in Belgium and the Netherlands. Ben Rombouts is Chief Operating Officer at Intris. Recently he has written a detailed review on […]
Oracle ADF Performance: Top 10 Typical Bottlenecks
In this blog I will discuss the top 10 typical performance problems I see in general in Oracle ADF projects – and will discuss solutions. Top 10 Typical Bottlenecks – Illustrated by ADF Callstacks I will illustrate the top 10 typical bottlenecks with ‘ADF callstacks’ – a feature of the ADF Performance […]
Generic Docker container image for running and dynamically reloading an Oracle JET application from a Git repository
This article introduces a Docker Container Image that runs an Oracle JET application from a Git repository and is capable of dynamic reload of that application when the repository contents get updated. The container image sources are on GitHub in repository https://github.com/lucasjellema/docker-oracle-jet-run-live-reload. It has been pushed to Docker Hub as […]
ADF Performance Tuning: A Field Report
Last week I was doing an extensive performance analysis / health check on a large ADF project, with the newest version of our ADF Performance Monitor product. In this performance assessment/analysis I have focused high-level on the most important performance bottlenecks. We could see in the ADF Performance Monitor that end-users experience […]
ADF Performance Monitor: Monitoring with Percentiles
What is best metric in performance monitoring – averages or percentiles? Statistically speaking there are many methods to determine just how good of an overall experience your application is providing. Averages are used widely. They are easy to understand and calculate – however they can be misleading. This blog is on […]
Configure and test your ADF REST Resource
In my previous post I showed the steps you have to take to create your first ADF REST resource. You can find it here: First steps with REST services on ADF Business Components. I will continue my exploration in the world of ADF REST. We are now going to configure […]
Quickly setup a persistent React application
After having recently picked up the React framework, I figured I’d share how I quickly setup my projects to implement persistence. This way you spend minimal time setting up the skeleton of your application, letting you focus on adding functionality. This is done by combining a few tools. Let’s take […]
5 main building blocks of the new Visual Builder Cloud Service
In may 2018 Oracle introduced the new version of Visual Builder Cloud Service. This version is not just aimed at the Citizen Developer, in the end an experienced JavaScript can do nice things with it. In this blog I will have a look at 5 of the 6 main building […]
ADF Performance Tuning: Manage Your Fetched Data
In this blog I want to stress how important it is to manage the data that you fetch and load into your ADF application. I blogged on this subject earlier. It is still underestimated in my opinion. Recently I was involved in troubleshooting the performance in two different ADF projects. They […]
ADF Performance Monitor – Major New Version 7.0
We are very happy to announce that a major new version 7.0 of the ADF Performance Monitor will be available from May 2018. There are many improvements and major new features. This blog describes one of the new features; on usage statistics and performance metrics of end-user click actions. A […]
First steps with REST services on ADF Business Components
Recently we had a challenge at a customer for which ADF REST resources on Business Components were the perfect solution. Our application is built in Oracle JET and of course we wanted nice REST services to communicate with. Because our data is stored in an Oracle database we needed an […]
ADF Performance Tuning: Avoid a Long Browser Load Time
It is not always easy to troubleshoot ADF performance problems – it is often complicated. Many parts needs to be measured, analyzed and considered. While looking for performance problems at the usual suspects (ADF application, database, network), the real problem can also be found in the often overlooked browser load […]
Oracle JET Web Applications – Automating Build, Package and Deploy (to Application Container Cloud) using a Docker Container
The essential message of this article is the automation for Oracle JET application of the flow from source code commit to a running application on Oracle Application Container Cloud, as shown in this picture: I will describe the inside of the “black box” (actually light blue in this picture) where […]
Pure Client Side Event Exchange between ADF Taskflows and Rich Client Web Applications such as Oracle JET, Angular and React
For one of our current projects I have done some explorations into the combination of ADF (and WebCenter Portal in our specific case) with JET. Our customer has existing investments in WC Portal and many ADF Taskflows and is now switching to JET as a WebApp implementation technology – for […]
Communicate events in ADF based UI areas to embedded Rich Client Applications such as Oracle JET, Angular and React
For one of our current projects I have done some explorations into the combination of ADF (and WebCenter Portal in our specific case) with JET. Our customer has existing investments in WC Portal and many ADF Taskflows and is now switching to JET as a WebApp implementation technology – for […]
Publish Events from any Web Application in IFRAME to ADF Applications
Even though ADF does not always play nice with guests, it is becoming increasingly common to have ADF applications – pure ADF or WebCenter Portal – that are the host to embedded user interfaces, created in technologies such as Oracle JET, Vue.js, Angular or React. This is not the ideal […]
Promoting a simple Oracle JET input text component to a Visual Country Selection component
To select a country (or any other geographical entity), we can offer our end users a dropdown list, a list of values in a popup window, an auto suggest input text component or a more visual, map based approach. In this article, I describe the latter: Open a modal popup […]
Using an OpenLayers map to select countries in an Oracle JET application
In a recent article I discussed how the open source geo, GIS and map library OpenLayers can be used in an Oracle JET application. That article shows how countries selected in a standard Oracle JET Checkbox Set component are represented on a world map. In this article, we take this […]