SOA Suite Build, Deployment and Test Automation – part 3: test automation
This is the last in a series of three posts. The goal of these posts is to outline an automated build procedure for Oracle’s SOA Order Booking demo application …
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"Form Personalization" in Oracle e-Business Suite Release 12 still doesn't offer a workaround for suboptimal LOV-Queries
In Oracle E-Business Suite release 11.5.10.2 some list of values (LOV) are not implemented considering the full functionality of the e-Business Suite. The " Project LOV’s" in Payables Invoices …
Exporting to Excel from any ADF Table
March 26, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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No matter how fancy the application you develop, no matter how sophisticated the user interfaces: end users will always clamor for Excel. All data eventually will end up in …
Using a generic JHeadstart Custom Template to support the inputTextHyperlink display type
March 22, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Being able to generate our ADF Web Applications is a fine thing. JHeadstart can really get us a long way with our application. However, in most situations, JHeadstart will …
Oracle E-Business Suite R12 with OEM10G
After configuring the Oracle EBS 11.5.10 environment in OEM10G, it was time to also configure the new Oracle EBS R12 environment in OEM10G. Before I could configure R12 in …
EBS Release 12 "SWAN" User Interface
Last week AMIS organized an " E-Business Suite Release 12 (EBS R12) New Features" session. It became obviously that EBS R12 has many new features and the improved user interface is only one …
Merging pdf documents using the BI-Publisher API
BI Publisher (named XML-Publisher until a few weeks ago, but what is in the name) offers besides the possibility to create documents also the possibility to interact with the …
R12 AD utilities: One step forward, two steps back?
After having completed my first installation of E-Business Suite Release 12, I decided to take a look on Metalink whether there were some critical updates to EBS Release 12. …
CTAS and IOT
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This was the second time I needed to look up how to create an Index Organized Table (IOT) with a Create Table As Select (CTAS). So just a quick …
Contract-Oriented PL/SQL Coding
During the Oracle PL/SQL Programming Conference in San Francisco another session I really liked was called "Contract-oriented PL/SQL Coding". In this blog I will go over the basic principles …
Puzzelen met SQL (1) – Politiek Correct?
Dit artikel is de on-line tegenhanger van de rubriek Puzzelen met SQL die komende maand voor de eerste maal verschijnt in de Optimize, het vakblad voor Oracle ontwikkelaars in …
Demonstrating some new JHeadstart 10.1.3.1 Features
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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A few days ago, the Oracle JHeadstart team released the 10.1.3.1 release. It was announced as ‘a point release’ but it turns out to offer a substantial chunk of …
New release (10.1.3.1) of JHeadstart has been published – many, many new features
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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A point release for JHeadstart has been made available by the Oracle JHeadstart team. For a point release, it has a surprisingly long list of new features. Among the …
How ADF Faces can do Tiles or SiteMesh like Push-Style templating using Regions with Dynamic Attributes
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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JSF has in built in facility for templating, apart from the subview component. And the Subview does not give us the kind of push-style templating that has us define …
Best practices suck!
I know, it’s a little bit of an aggressive statement, but if you think about it, it gets to you… Regarding performance and “best practices”. Let’s do this, a …
Installing Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 with shared APPL_TOP on CFS
As soon as EBS Release 12 became available, I started with the installation, eager to find out what the differences were compared to 11i. I had had the opportunity …
Looking back at the OPP Conference: Steven's Keynote
Now that the OPP is over, it is time to look back on the most interesting things that I have heard for the last couple of days. The first …
Great start of Hotsos 2007
I got up at 5 o’clock (CET) in the morning on Saturday and made my way to Schiphol airport, so Gerwin and I could take our plane to Dallas, …
AMIS Awarded for contribution the Oracle PL/SQL Community
During the Oracle PL/SQL Programming Conference, AMIS received an award for their contribution to the Oracle PL/SQL Programming Community. To be more specific, the award reads: "In recognition of …
About JR, Sue-Ellen and Hotsos 2007
I will be attending HOTSOS 2007 next week; and to be honest, I am not really into it yet. Despite, I guess and hope the great presentations, keynotes and …
New XML(DB) related whitepapers available from Ken Atkins
During OPP 2007, two presentations by Ken Atkins where given regarding XML(DB) items, featues and best practices. My collegae Alex Nuijten was also attending, and presenting, and hinted me …
OPP2007: Test-a-Thon
Can you believe it? After a full day of different presentations on PL/SQL, people just couldn’t get enough of PL/SQL. The 2 day Oracle PL/SQL Programming Conference (OPP2007) in …
SOA Suite Build, Deployment and Test Automation – part 2: automating ESB deployments
This is the second in a series of three posts. The goal of these posts is to outline an automated build procedure for Oracle’s SOA Order Booking demo application …
First patch for Oracle E-Business Suite R12
This morning I downloaded my first patch for the new Oracle EBS R12. Already there are 2 high priority patches for the new EBS, and I downloaded one of …
Going to SF, to meet SF
At 04:30 this morning my alarm went off. I don’t like mornings, but today is different from other days. Today I flew into San Francisco for the Oracle PL/SQL …
Running Webforms without Oracle JInitiator
February 21, 2007
AMIS, IT, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Software Development, Software Engineering
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A few weeks ago one of my customers told me that he lost a sales opportunity because the customer who he was trying to sell his software too had …
The Java Server Faces generic "garble button" – how to become wildly popular again…
Somewhat akin to the dbms_advanced_rewrite package application I discussed some time ago, I have now another piece of functionality that will make you once again the light of the …
Testing, One, Two….
Just in time for the Oracle PL/SQL Programming Conference, OPP2007, the Code Tester for Oracle is released. I am very excited about this tool and more posts will follow. …
Installing Oracle E-Business Suite R12
So, I finally installed the new EBS 12i release. I had to install with an empty database, because of disk space limits…But the important thing is that the installation was …
Writing a pure SQL based String Tokenizer
A quite common concept in many programming langiages, though perhaps strongest in Java, is the String Tokenizer. This is a utility class or function that takes a String as …
Creating XML Data Services for Reporting and ESB integration using DBMS_EPG (the internal HTTP/PLSQL Gateway) and XMLType
Today I all of a sudden found myself investigating the creation op PL/SQL based Data Services, returning XML documents with data from SQL queries to HTTP Clients. The direct …
Never Assume, always test…
Yesterday evening I started preparing for the upcoming Oracle PL/SQL Programming Test-A-Thon. I strongly believe that building your own programs to perform a functionality, which is already provided as …
Nodig óns uit! Invite Us! (dan nodigen we jou ook weer uit)
Je weet, we nodigen je altijd graag uit om in onze kennis te delen. Via deze weblog laten we bijvoorbeeld in detail zien met wat voor zaken we bezig …
My first steps with Oracle BI Publisher Enterprise Edition 10.1.3.2: create a report based on the OraBlogs rss-feed
After receiving a new, pretty powerful laptop, on Thursday and installing the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition on Friday, this weekend sees my first steps with the BI Publisher (previously …
Sizing Oracle EBS 12i
I wanted to find out how ‘big’ the new Oracle EBS 12i release really is. So, I downloaded the software from Edelivery and created a stage area. From the …
How to call a WS-Security secured web service from Oracle BPEL
Introduction I have been investigating Oracle’s Web Service Manager recently. WSM is shipped with the new SOA Suite. The WSM is a service gateway. Existing services can be placed …
Transaction Dependent Webservice Invocation…or how to call a webservice from a database trigger and make the call part of the transaction
One of our clients asked us to help with calling a webservice from a database trigger. This webservice would duplicate the actions done by the database in a different …
Oracle WebCenter Suite 10g (10.1.3.2.0) available for download too
February 1, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Yesterday we received the 10.1.3.2 release of JDeveloper, with the WebCenter design time; today we are presented with the WebServer Suite (Server) as well. Download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/101310.html :
How to refer to an Attribute in the Currently Selected Table row in an ADF Faces page – implementing a Generic Row Reader
January 31, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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A very small article on a very trivial issue. I have a page with a Master-Detail construction with a (master) Table of Departments and a (detail) Table of Employees. …
XML-Publisher how to display your input parameter
This week I have played a bit with XML-Publisher. The goal was take some reports and try to migrate them to XML-Publisher version. Yesterday I posted a blog about …