Generating graphs with JHeadstart
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, …
Category: Frontend technology
Using a rich editor in ADF applications
December 14, 2007
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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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 …
How to implement Amazon webservice in ADF
December 10, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 Query – on developing Web Applications with Oracle development technology: ADF and Application Express side by side (with Dimitri Gielis and Lucas Jellema)
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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 …
Integrating Seam with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish
November 23, 2007
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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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 …
OOW 2007: (most) presentations available for download
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 …
Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish
November 21, 2007
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Over the past weeks I have been exploring the possibilities of Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish. Two of my previous blog entries explain the basics of using Maven in Netbeans …
Opening and extracting Zip files in java – It’s there for a while, but I just found out
A while ago I found out that it was possible to open Zip files with Java. Just open a regular java.io.File and pass it to the java.util.zip.ZipFile constructor. It …
ADF Faces 11g: Reloading the Matrix – using the Pivot Table component
November 18, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
Personalizing ADF Applications through User Preferences
November 15, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
Maven based configuration management with automatic build number
An important questions in software deployment and testing is “What is the version of the software I am looking at”. It is frustrating for a tester or an end …
JDeveloper 11g – Declarative Components – Rapid, No Programming Composition of custom JSF components
November 14, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
Another trip down memory lane at OOW: JDeveloper History
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 …
Adding Table Row Highlighting to ADF Faces pages
November 12, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
Enhance the web page look & feel and behavior after it has been loaded – attach onLoad Event Listeners during load
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 …
Building Real Life ADF Applications – Meeting the team during the OOW 2007 Presentation (Thursday, S290737, 4pm, Moscone South 300)
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 …
Compile and invoke your webservice client (generated by XFire) in a running JVM
Generating XFire client files isn’t that special, but with Java 6 it is possible to compile those files immediately and invoke the webservice within one application. When I told …
Integrating JAD decompiler into JDeveloper
In JDeveloper, when debugging or otherwise navigating to classes that JDeveloper does not have the source code for, JDeveloper generates a "stub source", showing you only the fields and …
You want to build it with ADF, but you do not want it to look like ADF. What do you do? (come to S290737 during OOW2007)
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 …
JHeadstart ADF Generation with Custom Templates – using custom properties when none are available
November 6, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 Table – Toggle for Show All/Show First Batch – interaction designer taking over
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 …
ADF – Implement a 'Delete this record' icon (action) in an ADF Table
November 4, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2
Yesterday I wrote an article about Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2. The article explains how to setup your Netbeans projects to be …
Have Download File functionality in JHeadstart display the proper file name in the "Save File As" dialog
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 …
Enabling BLOB support with JHeadstart – Uploading/Downloading files to and from a BLOB column
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 …
Implementing Instrumentation in ADF applications – for enhanced administration
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 …
ADF Faces 11g – Rich Text Editor: editing WYSIWYG HTML text in JSF Web Applications
October 6, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
Battle of the Geeks 2007 – An eyewitness report
Yesterday I attended the Battle of the Geeks. It was hosted by Finalist at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. There were four presentations about different subjects. CMS Container, …
How to Unit-test private methods
I know it’s kind of wrong to test private methods and there are a lot of articles and books that will explain you why. But sometimes you have an …
ADF – Using CSS to change the appearance of mandatory items (dump the asterisk)
September 20, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
GlassFish V2/9.1 FCS has been released
GlassFish is the first open source application server to have implemented the JEE specification. Basically it is the open source version of Sun Java System Application server. Last night …
Creating a Bar Chart in ADF Faces using nothing but inputText and a little CSS
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 …
Minify all your JavaScript and Stylsheets automatically with YUI Compressor and a Servlet Filter
In this article I will explain how to minify all your .js and .css files automatically with a servlet filter. This means you only have to define a servlet …
A quick introduction to the jQuery tablesorter plugin
A few days ago version 2.0 of the tablesorter plugin was released. Before 2.0 the tablesorter worked fine but I never did anything with it. Today I thought it …
How to fix your number-sorting problems in Javascript
Did you ever wanted to sort in Javascript and were the results unpredictable? It’s not a bug, but more something that’s not implemented. I came across this problem when …
Maven JMeter plugin and report generation (the last steps to get it working)
August 8, 2007
IT, Java, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/)is a powerful tool for functional and performance testing web applications. JMeter, opposed to selenium, also works perfectly on generated applications (like Oracle ADF ). One of the …
Getting started with JPA mapping : How IntelliJ can map your data with a few clicks
With JPA, there finally is an ORM standard and every major IDE has support for it. Today I will show you how to map your data with IntelliJ IDEA. …
How to execute a search by pressing the ENTER key in UIX
July 27, 2007
Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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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, …
JSF EL Calculator bean – to overcome coercion errors and add functionality to EL Expressions
In a recent project I was working on JSF page that needed to display the result of a calculation performed on values taken from various bean properties. The beans …
Uploading CSV files into dynamic ADF Faces tables – programmtically creating columns
July 15, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …