OOW 2007: Opening Night turns into “trip down memory lane”
Last night we saw the opening night of Oracle Open World 2007. The big keynote session in the Moscone Center was around Oracle’s 30 year anniversary with the main …
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Provide your ADF Faces application with a central BindingContainer for generic access to application wide services
Some operations and data, available from one or more ADF Data Controls, are useful across the application. From just abaout anywhere in the ADF Faces Web Application, you may …
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 …
Oracle 11g for Developers – 60+ slide presentation
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The November 1st presentation that Alex and I did on 11g – focusing on features and functionality that are of particular interest for developers – is finally available for …
Enriching and forwarding with the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus – tutorial in AMIS SOA Series
Many integration patterns involve messages being received, transformed, enriched and sent onwards. The Oracle Enterprise Service Bus supports most of these patterns and operations, but not all of them …
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 …
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 …
Generating the cooltip for ADF applications (using JHeadstart)
Our end users – inspired by the Interaction Designers – have requested a superduper tooltip for their fields. Not the shy title popup label that browsers show for elements …
The Great Oracle SQL Quiz – answers to two sample questions – why we do no longer need journalling tables
Earlier today I wrote about The Great Oracle SQL Quiz session at Oracle Open World. I presented two sample questions – that will not be in the quiz at …
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 …
Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2
A few weeks ago an article appeared in the Netbeans Knowledge Base about how to get started with GlassFish V2, Maven2 and Netbeans 6.0. It is a great article …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part IV
The past days have been really interesting. During last Wednesday (november 24) we finished the XML topic, covering Generating XML from an Oracle Database, Managing XML data in an Oracle Database, …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part III
Hi there! Today we continued our journey into the XML realm, by exploring the XML Schema, XPath, XSL and XML DB. XML Schemas XML Schemas are based on XML …
Custom sql scripts in OAM
I noticed Oracle Applications Manager has some very handy sql script you can use when monitoring your EBS environment. When starting up OAM, navigate to Site Map —-> Monitoring …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part II
Today was the first day of the FM BootCamp. After a brief introduction of the program we started with our first topic of this two-week intensive hands-on Fusion Middleware Experience. …
Puzzelen met SQL – Testdata Generatie
Puzzelen met SQL – Testdata Generatie Anton Scheffer en Alex Nuijten Dit artikel is de on-line tegenhanger van de rubriek Puzzelen met SQL die verschijnt in de Optimize, …
OAUG Fusion Middleware BootCamp Chicago – Part I
Well,Today finally was the day. I have been looking forward a lot coming to Chicago for the Fusion Middleware Bootcamp. Getting up around 5:30am to get to the train …
Oracle 11g for Developers – presenting at Oracle Benelux User Group Conference 2007
Yesterday was nice. Alex and I had two presentation ‘gigs’, the second of which was in the Amsterdam Arena, the AJAX Amsterdam stadium: It was sold out! Well, our …
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 …
Hands-on introduction to Oracle 11g at the AMIS KC Server Development event, Donderdag 1 november, 16.30 uur
We have been playing with Oracle 11g for quite some time now. Walking around in the toy-store if you like. Trying out many new features, trying to push them …
New ADF Faces 11g Features that will save the day (or at least a couple of hours)
We are developing an ADF application for a customer. It is a very large and complex application, offered in a hosted environment to over 110 customers and with more …
MOOW 2K7 – Finishing up
After surviving the water slides the day before my colleague Gerwin and I enjoyed again a great breakfast and a lot of coffee. For me this is an essential …
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 …
Oracle 11g Partial Table Flashback (flashback only selected columns or a subset of records)
Oracle 9i started introducing Flashback technology into the Oracle RDBMS. Flashback unlocks the UNDO data already available in the Oracle database for read-consistency, for other applications. Using Flashback queries …
Yes, it is here too: the PIVOT operator in Oracle 11g
Pivoting is all the rage. Turning rows into columns. You can do it in Excel, in all BI/OLAP tools and we could do it in Oracle using clever tricks …
EBS Custom Applications using Forms Listener Servlet
I was verifying a custom application installation in E-Business Suite for a customer lately. While looking for the documentation the installation was done with, I came across Metalink Note …
The Oracle 11g UNPIVOT operator – turning columns into rows
The PIVOT operation is one frequently discussed when talking about more advanced SQL Queries. Pivoting is the process of switching rows and columns, and is for example an advanced …
DBMS_COMPARISON – to compare and synchronize tables (new in Oracle 11g)
One of the interesting new pieces of functionality in Oracle 11g is offered by the DBMS_COMPARISON package. This package allows us to compare two tables – or two views …
MOOW 2K7 – The Miracle Express
It’s the day before Miracle Oracle Open World 2007. Tomorrow the (Dutch) Miracle Express will leave and will make its way from Garderen to Lalandia, Denmark. Hopefully arriving with …
The trickle-feed integration pattern
This pattern was ‘invented’ by our SOA-architects team integrating the Oracle SOA Suite and the Oracle e-Business Suite in an existing IT-landscape. The trickle-feed integration pattern can be used …
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 …
Oracle Business Process Analysis Suite available
Oracle partners with IDS Scheer, a market leader in business analysis software, to further expand its offering with respect to Service Oriented Architectures. As a result of this co-operation, …
Maintaining recent navigation history in ADF Faces applications – mimicking MS Word's Recent Documents history
For one of our other ADF projects, we have an interesting requirement: the user should at all times see a little box with the recent case history, and the …
XML Data – To be stored or not to be stored, and beyond…
It is nagging… I got an email from that you are able to download the handouts from ODTUG until half September (download them now, 1/2 September they will be …