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One of the hottest topics in Java programming right now is probably Aspect Oriented Programming. Made popular by frameworks such as AspectJ and Spring, AOP refers to a new …
At the end of january, Oracle announced that Oracle HTML DB was renamed to Oracle Application Express. At the same time they published a roadmap for the next year. …
After my visit tot JavaPolis, in December 2005, I wrote a brief article on Selenium, a tool for testing Web Applications. For one of our internal Knowledge Center Sessions …
While I was reviewing today’s statistics of our weblog, I noticed a referrer in our top 10 that had guided 24 readers to one of our articles. I …
Last week, release 4.0 of JUnit was published. You may have seen some of the announcements. The JUnit homepage (http://www.junit.org/index.htm)does not reflect this fact at the time of writing, …
Recently, IBM released two articles about AJAX on their website, called Mastering AJAX, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax and Mastering AJAX, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and …
It becomes stranger and stranger. After bying the open source company InnoBase, Timesten, and others, Oracle now also bought SleepyCat. Oracle also released its own freeware in the form …
Yesterday we had another of our AMIS Query sessions – for technical specialists from AMIS, our business relations and even our collpetitors in the Dutch marketplace. Some 30 people …
Recently I wrote an article about setting up Jakarta Slide and using the Slide client to connect to an Exchange WebDAV store. The article is in Dutch, but if …
This article Oracle’s Open-Source Shopping Spree in Business Week Online suggests that Oracle is involved in serious discussions with JBoss, Zend and SleepyCat about a take over – for …
Gisteren, donderdag 9 februari, hadden we een uitstekende bijeenkomst rondom EJB 3.0 Persistence API. Met z’n 16-en – waarvan twee geïnteresseerde externen – hebben we in goed drie uur …
In an article on dev2dev, BEA’s Bill Wroth observes the increase of the usage of the Spring framework on WebLogic customer sites. He writes: "As I travel around to …
On Saturday I was shocked to read the announcement in the newspaper of the death of Lex de Haan. Even though, after the earlier reports on his physical condition, …
Yesterday, Oracle’s President Charles Philips announced that Oracle’s acquisition of Siebel is completed and Oracle and Siebel are now operating as one. One of the comments in the official …
Oracle 10g Cluster Ready Services enables databases to use a Virtual IP address to configure the listener on. This feature is to assure that oracle clients quickly failover when …
Last week, Sun and Oracle announced a 20+ year period of more intense cooperation. According to this link http://www.sun.com/2006-0111/feature/index.html Sun and Oracle will forcus on these three main areas: …
Just noticed on The Server Side an announcement regarding the "Developer.com Product of the Year 2006 Winners". As you can see for yourself, JSF (Java Server Faces), Ant, Eclipse …
Long expected, finally there: NetBEans 5.0 RC1 has been released. See http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/index.htmlfor more info on this fine IDE.
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
The proper way to start OC4J is sparsely documented by Oracle: To start OC4J in a standalone environment, issue the following command from the j2ee/home/ directory: java -jar …
Great article about ASM on the website of Howard Rogers: http://www.dizwell.com/oracle/articles/desktop_asm.html For both Linux and Windows.
I have done a fair bit of Entity Relationship Modeling. It’s one of the things I probably like most about my job. And one of the things in ERD …
Project Raptor, announced and demonstrated at Oracle Open World, this Fall, has now been released (sort of, as it is still an early adopter release). A free download (60Mb) …
As a first recap of my five days at Javapolis, here are my thoughts on trends, past, present and future of the Java platform. Expect to see more in-depth …
Since December 2004, we participate in the Oracle Warehouse Builder beta program for 10gR2 – the Paris release. Yesterday, I downloaded the Beta 4 Release, the most recent stage …
Next week, we are off to Antwerp. A crew of seven AMIS Java/J2EE developers will visit JavaPolis, the largest Java/J2EE conference on this side of the Atlantic. I will …
Did you (or one of your customers) ever encounter ORA-00942 (table or view does not exist) while working in a (Web) form? No, then you can skip this post. …
Thursday the 1st of December the Knowledge Centre Development Tools held an evening about HTML DB. There was quite some interest in this topic regarding the amount of registrations …
This article serves two purposes: it extends the JHeadstart Application Generator to set UIX items to "required" based on a new custom Mandatory property – instead of driven from …
In my current project – with Oracle Designer 10g, WebForms, Headstart and CDM RuleFrame, Repository Object Browser, CVS, Oracle SCM and Jira for Incident Management as well as TransferWare …
On my current assignment I am working on interfaces between Tibco and Oracle PL/SQL applications. Tibco is a middleware solution that implements a messaging based interface solution between different …
Finally, I have attended to one of my long running frustrations with CDM RuleFrame: the Business Rule Design Transformer, that key Headstart utility that takes Business Rule definitions in …
For one of our sessions for the Knowledge Center Oracle Server Development I had to prepare a presentation and demonstration on new Oracle 10gR2 features in SQL and PL/SQL …
Oracle announces release 6 of their In Memory database, more details here. Faster, bigger, better and easier… well, let’s try it first.
From previous posts, you may have understood that I have been using VPD policies – Virtual Private Database or Fine Grained Access Control – quite extensively in my current …
The apache foundation has just released version 1.1.1 of MyFaces, a free open source implementation of JavaServer Faces . This release is a minor patch release that fixes a …
Desktop Conference 2006, February 21-23 – ODTUG is once again joining forces with the Business Intelligence and Data Warehouse SIG, and Oracle Corporation in presenting this three-day virtual conference. …
As you can probably tell from the topics and nature of my blog-postings recently, I am very deepy involved in a project using classical Oracle development technology such as …
Op 18 oktober is er een KC Web & Java sessie geweest over het persistency framework Hibernate. Eerst is de theorie behandeld en vervolgens zijn we zelf aan de …
For the Fall 2005 issue of OGh Visie, the magazine of the Dutch Oracle User Group, I have written an article introducing the most enticing new features for Application …