Category: Oracle Application Development Framework

It was promised at Oracle Open World by Thomas Kurian, just over a month ago. And now Oracle delivers on that promise: the Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Preview at …

Last Monday, we organized an AMIS Query on APEX and ADF. Dimitri Gielis, APEX specialist, joined us and presented his ideas on APEX. I took on the role as …

Last month we organized a Knowledge Center session on Oracle Open World 2007. AMIS consultants Peter, Sjoerd, Harm and Lucas were joined by Lonneke from Approach Alliance to present …

One of our recent buisiness cases required the availability of graph representations of data in an application generated with JHeadstart. At first I started out with JFreeChart and ChartCreator, …

About a year ago Frank Nimphius wrote this weblog article about using a rich text editor called openWYSIWYG in ADF applications. Recently we encountered the need for such an …

This article demonstrates how to build an ADF application on top of the Amazon WebServices for searching books. 1. Start jdeveloper 10.1.3. 2.0(or newer) 2. Build a new Application Application name: AmazonWebservice …

AMIS is proud to announce an AMIS Query on Monday 17th December 2007: Developing Web Applications with Oracle development technology: ADF and Application Express, side by side. There are …

The application that resulted from my previous article on Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish uses Hibernate for JPA and Facelets for JSF. This is an ideal situation to make the …

Most of the presentations for the sessions presented at Oracle Open World 2007, last week in San Francisco, can be downloaded from the Content Catalog  at: http://www28.cplan.com/cc176/catalog.jsp. You will …

In the past months I have written several times about the Matrix component I developed for ADF Faces to be used in several of our projects. Yesterday I demonstrated …

While of course the applications we build using ADF Faces technology are perfect and cater optimally to every end user’s needs, some end users seem to disagree. Even though …

In my current ADF Faces (10.1.3) project, I have created several custom JSF components. These components combine chunks of recurring page structure content. By using custom components, I can …

Oracle celebrates its 30th anniversary this year, and this was the main theme of Larry’s key note speech on sunday night. But there are other anniversaries to celebrate this …

End users of web applications like clarity. They want to know where they are in a page, what the current context of information and their actions is. Next to …

Many web applications are rendered by HTML rendering frameworks and technologies such as JSP, JSF, PHP, .NET etc. In such technology stacks, it is common to make use of …

We need to learn an awful lot for productively developing good looking, robust ADF applications. And the best lessons learned are learned by experience. However, it does not necessarily …

Well, at the very least come to my presentation Building Real Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) Applications: A Learning Experience at OOW next week:  S290737, Thursday 4.00pm (Moscone …

Most our ADF application is generated. For many reasons, including an easier upgrade to 11g later on. That means a lot of fiddling with custom generator templates – the …

ADF applications are fun to develop. And some challenges make it even more fun. Our challenge is our Interaction Designer who, together with the end user board, comes up …

As I may have mentioned previously on this blog, I am currently involved in a somewhat challenging ADF project. We are using JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 and JHeadstart 10.1.3.2 for the …

Creating ‘download file’ functionality in our ADF Web Applications is pretty easy, especially when using JHeadstart. Using a few declarative settings, we can generate the download capability in no …

JHeadstart 10.1.3 has great support for Uploading and Downloading files up to and from Web Applications – and indirectly from the database. Compared to prior releases, JHeadstart 10.1.3 has …

One characteristic of professional applications is their manageability. How easy is it for run-time Database and Application Server Administrators to work with the application, especially when there are issues …

For one of my current ADF projects, the customer has asked for a Rich Text Editor – to allow the end user to easily edit Email-messages that are sent …

One of our ADF projects has a customer determined to develop an application with a modern, appealing user interface. To that end, they hired a User Interaction Designer, who …

JDeveloper 11g will gives us wonderful charts. Colorful, powerful, exhilerating etc. But since it is not yet production, I might just write this little story about yet another way …

Many end users are used to pressing enter after inserting one or more search terms in an HTML form. Many, if not most, online search engines support this. Unfortunately, …

In a recent article – ADF Faces File Uploading – It is really that simple! – I described how to set up file uploading with ADF Faces. Using the …

One particularly type of interaction in web applications is typically a little bit tricky. Requiring additional analysis of the frameworks used. For me personally it was even the way …

An interesting requirement for a freshly started ADF project: a Global Search widget, available on virtually every page, that allows the user to enter a search string and perform …

Tables are probably the most important ADF Faces component to present data to the end user. A table can present a huge amount of data at once, both in …

Tables are probably the most important ADF Faces component to present data to the end user. A table can present a huge amount of data at once, both in …

Recently I ran into a requirement on an ADF project to present columns in an ADF Faces table component in a clustered (nested) fashion. Out of 12 columns, one …

Another tale from the ADF (10.1.3.2) project for the Interior Decorator chain of stores. When the sales representative is creating the decoration plan for a home or office building, …

In a previous post I was telling you about an ADF project we are discussing for a chain of interior decorating shops. One challenge we encountered in the functional …

A few days ago a brand new Eclipse release popped up in my RSS reader. Eclipse 3.3 with WTP 2.0. After browsing through the new features I was very …

This week we were having a session in which we had to estimate the effort required for a new ADF project. The application we have to develop will support …

The ADF Faces tree is potentially a very rich component that can add value to many user interfaces. Data sets frequently are hierarchically organized and the tree allows visual …

Although the presentations at ODTUG this year cover the entire spectrum of Oracle-based application development, from Forms and PL/SQL to ADF, SOA Suite and APEX, the ODTUG crowd is …

In preparing for my ODTUG 2007 presentation on AJAX in ADF Faces, I decided to play a little with JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview, to have an interesting demo in …