Category: IT
One of the pleasant surprises in the wonderful world for J2EE (and J2SE since the Tiger Release) is JMX. It may sound complex: a not so easy acronym, targeted …
It is not yet over, the conference. And the jury is still out. And mine is only a single vote. But by now I do get a pretty clear …
Oracle asked me to do a presentation the Oracle Mini Theater on the Java Pavilion (several Regional Directors Oracle Fusion Middleware presented there, along with Oracle product managers). Out …
Yesterday opened with a pretty well attended General Session by Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President Oracle Server Technologies Division. As I have become used to expect from him, it …
I may be at JavaOne 2007, the important work still has to go on. Hence the latest in a series of SQL powered charts and graphs: the Gauge or …
Recently we were bidding on a major project for the rebuilding and enhancement of an extranet system for one of our prospects. Their current system was based on old …
Following the donation of its ADF Faces JSF library to the open source community as Apache MyFaces Trinidad, late 2005, Oracle today announced that it will donate all the …
In JDeveloper 11g, as another example of declarative productivity, we can add a List of Values definition to an attribute in a ViewObject, indicating that typically that attribute whenever …
With the Technical Preview of JDeveloper 11g out now for JavaOne 2007, we can take a closer look at several areas in the tool and see where they are …
While still early days, and with the expert groups still having to do their job, this session discussed some of the likely advances for the Java Technology for the …
The (Oracle) Java community is currently buzzing because the first JDeveloper 11g preview is available for download at the OTN JDeveloper 11g page. I’ll give you a short introduction …
We knew it was coming, now we talk about it. From Olaf’s Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/olaf/2007/05/08#a84 JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview Software Online Demos Tutorials Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) 11g Technology …
The first day of JavaOne is continuing. It seems to reach out in many different directions, from SOA to Groovy, from mobile devies to JEE Application Servers. It is …
Here is your challenge: we have many thousands of developers, with many different technical backgrounds. Do not expect all our developers to be advanced Java programmers. They will be …
In my series of useless queries and my attempt to produce any Chart-style in ASAP (as plain as possible) SQL, I would now like to show my Stacked Bar …
After reading an article about image concatenation on Ajaxian I tried it myself, but soon I came across some obstacles. Of course one of these obstacles was the limp …
There are many things that can help make this world a better place. A pure SQL-based Gantt-chart is not one of them. However, that is exactly what this article …
Sunday morning, Schiphol Airport. It is almost time to depart for San Francisco, for this year’s JavaOne conference. Apparently the weather is great in SFO, so it is going …
Tuesday May 8th we organize the 3rd AMIS Academy, with 15 sessions on various subjects connected with our work and the technology we typically make use of. Visitors are …
This week I attended our AMIS Query on “How the Middle Tier is slowing the Database down†by renowned performance “problem solver†Anjo Kolk. When I saw the announcement …
This week we added more than 50 books to our ever expanding library of books on Design Patterns, Oracle Database Administration, Script Languages, Agile Development, Core Java, SOA, Security …
Last night, we hosted an inspiring and thought provoking AMIS Query, with some 70 developers, project managers and primarily DBAs. The presentator was well known performance expert ("I just …
Last week I revisited a client in the healthcare sector. A client where I delivered a project for a Central Laboratory Information System back in ‘97. I was the …
As a manager I had an encounter with myself today. Actually I had one with my team. Personally I thought I had it all figured out just fine. My …
I intended to reduce the things I do with Javascript. But maybe Javascript isn’t that bad when you can run it inside java. I’m still working on a very …
Oracle has informed him this week that the nomination for Sjoerd Michels, expertise manager for SOA & BI, for Oracle Regional Director Fusion Middleware has been accepted! Sjoerd hereby …
For a long time Oracle e-Business Suite was 100% Oracle. Running Oracle e-Business Suite meant Oracle for the application, the middle tier and the database. In future releases this might be a …
Last week we had a project scoping day: in a room, client and AMIS, setting the boundaries of the project. Nothing unusual you would say. It is healthy to …
According to Oracle Release 12 offers flexible, XML-based solutions for 70% of all reports in the Financial modules. Who cares, when it’s the alltime hottest sunday afternoon in the …
One of quite a few open source JSF libraries available to JSF Web Application developers is the Sun Java Blueprints AJAX JSF Components. This set of AJAX-powererd JSF components …
Last week I visited Hyderabad in India in order to deliver a SOA Suite training for Genpact consultants that participate in a Systems Integration project for General Electric Plastics. …
Yesterday I did a presentation on Oracle WebCenter and the concept of UI-SOA. Part of the talk were a great number of quite complex demonstrations, to illustrate the key …
Before I enter into more detail on the factors I perceive as contributing to project success, let’s take a look at how ICT Project are actually doing, now. A …
Last year I’ve been working on the Oracle Incentive Compensation (OIC) module (version 11.5.10), the successor of Oracle Sales Compensation. For those who haven’t heard of the module before, …
Oracle WebCenter allows JSF (including ADF Faces) applications to consume Portlets. That means that our own application can pretend to be a portal too. Anywhere in the JSF page, …
Is Jinitiator going away I am wondering for a long time. Especially now the the Sun JPI can easily be used with Web Forms. My colleague Marco pointed me …
Last week I was again painfully reminded of how important it is to start your project the right way. Last year we started a major ADF/JHeadstart project. And we …
In all my years as a project manager I always faced the same problems when setting up a project plan. The problem was not the plan itself but the …
Per request of General Electric Plastics for which we participate in a systems integration project, AMIS goes India in order to deliver a SOA Suite introduction training for Genpact …
A few weeks ago I was asked to deliver a presentation on methods (development, project management, application implementation, …) to the Oracle User Group Holland (OGH). My initial response …
