ADF 11g : Show PDF in a Popup
In one of my previous posts I showed how to use ADF popup components to display external content such as webpages like wikipedia in an inline frame. Based on …
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ADF 11g : Printing Directly From Your Application
Last week I was asked this question : “Can we print directly from within our ADF Application, without invoking the printer dialog ?” I wasn’t sure but after some …
ODTUG KScope 11 : A short overview of ADF on the Fusion Middleware track
From June 26th to June 30th the KScope 11 conference was in Long Beach California. Nice setting for a great conference. It was the first time that KScope had …
Book review: JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development
In this blog I will share with you my experiences with the Oracle JDeveloper11g Handbook – A Guide to Oracle Fusion Web Development (McGraw-Hill, 2010) – written by Duncan …
Specificatiefout, programmafout of testfout?
Tijdens de voorbereiding van een kennissessie georganiseerd door AMIS kwam een collega met een interessante praktijk case.
KSCOPE 2011: What do you mean “Agile”
Currently in Cary Millsap’s session about his agile approach on things called “My Case for Agile Methods“. Agile is (not yet) my thing, but knowing Cary, and he is …
Kaleidoscope 2011: Sunday's Symposium
Sunday’s Conference day started very early at around 07:30 by going straight to registration, then on to a quick breakfast and the first session at 08:30 AM. Joel Kallman …
Keeping your process clean: Hiding technology complexity behind a service
This blog will explain how you could abstract technology behind a service so your main process will be kept clean of all kind of technology pollution like exception handling, …
Using ADF 11gR2 DVT component Pivot Table for an on-line analysis of the ODTUG Kaleidoscope session catalog
ADF comes with a rich collection of component that allow us to visualize and analyze data in ways that previously were only available in fancy OLAP and other BI …
ADF 11g R2 : Skin Editor First Impressions
June 7, 2011
Development Tools, IT, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, PL/SQL, Web/Java
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With JDeveloper 11gR2 the skineditor is finally there. I share my first impressions in this post. When you need a skin for your application in previous versions, some configuration …
How to remove unwanted SOAP header elements in JAX-WS
In our current webservice project with JAX-WS in JDeveloper 11.1.1.3 we have a challenge with calling a webservice. This webservice from a remote organisation does not accept specific SOAP …
Getting started with your career (in Dutch)
April 21, 2011
AMIS, Announce / Events, Architecture, Development Tools, IT, Java, Mobile, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Software Engineering, Web/Java, XML
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Als bezoeker van deze blog ben je bezig met het maken van mooie oplossingen en nieuwe uitdagingen op technisch gebied. AMIS nodigt je uit om ons team te komen …
PowerPoint trick to remove the borders around pictures to prevent overlap (using transparent color)
I am frequently engaged in creating PowerPoint presentations (or Word documents) that contain many pictures. Logos, screenshots, symbols, photographs are typically combined to create a pleasing and effective visualization. …
Android puts Oracle on the (Google) map
For a couple of months I have been discovering the Android platform. As an original Oracle developer I was wondering how an Android app can be connected to an …
DBPITR with a rman archival backup
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One of our customers had this request: Can you make a backup of my development database that I can use to restore ( the same database ) to a …
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2011 – The Premier Conference for Oracle Fusion Middleware
My favorite conference since 1997 has been the yearly ODTUG conference. Because of its size – that lends an intimacy to the event that is simply unique – and …
APEX: List of Values shared across various applications
When you are used to Designer 6.0 or up, you may be aware of shared or shareable components. In ApEx Shared Components are available, too. One specific object that …
Batch Aggregation of files in BPEL process instances based on correlation
Remco is an interesting guy with unexpected ideas springing from a creative brain. He can make life interesting, challenging and puzzling. This time he had another interesting challenge – …
Interesting alert from Oracle Business Rules – Gap Analysis
Seems like stating the obvious: if they are are missing, they are not likely to be found, now are they? Makes you wonder what the alternative would be. Something …
Do it yourself Transaction Recorder – when standard auditing is not available
In the recently published blog article Database Transaction Recorder – Adding Who to When and What to make Flashback take over from Journalling tables (https://technology.amis.nl/blog/10911/database-transaction-recorder-adding-who-to-when-and-what-to-make-flashback-take-over-from-journalling-tables) I have discussed how …
Ways to instantiate a variable in Oracle Service Bus based on a static XML document
Today we had an interesting exploration into the many ways available in the Oracle Service Bus to load a piece of XML into a variable in a message flow …
Database Transaction Recorder – Adding Who to When and What to make Flashback take over from Journalling tables
In previous articles, I have suggested that the arrival of the Flashback Data Archive in Oracle RDBMS 11g allowed us to finally say goodbye to journalling tables. Keeping track …
ADF 11g : Using jQuery and ADF to provide a fading user feedback
January 31, 2011
Development Tools, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server
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Last week someone asked me if it was possible to inform the users of his application about the fact that data has been changed. No problem I told him. …
Oracle Service Bus: enable / disable proxy service with WLST
I was looking for a way how to enable or disable a proxy service within Oracle Service Bus 11g with WLST (WebLogic Scripting tool) Here’s the way I found …
ADF 11g : Log Data Manipulation
January 6, 2011
Development Tools, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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Today I had a request to implement a generic logging mechanism for all changes of data (DML) in an ADF application. The log needs to be persisted in a …
ESB Control shows "Designtime cache has not been initialized"
After installing Oracle SOA Suite 10g (10.1.3.3) and logging on to the ESB Control, the following error appears: Designtime cache has not been initialized Please look in logs for …
the "other" developer
When thinking of development, one easily think of developing functionality for applications, business functionality and end-users. But how about developing for administrators? Normally a product like Oracle Application Server …
Adding a custom method in an ADF BC Service Interface – update of a single attribute in a selected row
The article “Quickly creating, deploying and testing a WebService interface for ADF Business Components” (https://technology.amis.nl/blog/9726/quickly-creating-reploying-and-testing-a-webservice-interface-for-adf-business-components) that I recently published describes a way of very rapidly creating the HRService Web …
ADF 11g : Drag’n Drop and Contextual Events
December 28, 2010
Architecture, Development Tools, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web/Java
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While going through my list of requirements for our AMIS re-usable ADF taskflow library, I ran into the following requirement: publish a contextual event on a Drag and Drop …
Lost in Service Oriented Architecture?
My initial idea was to write an article on the similarities and differences of BPEL (relatively new to me) and PL/SQL, BPEL being one option for an environment or …
Retrieving the values for domains in SQL queries in the Oracle RDBMS – months, days, numbers and custom value sets
It happens quite frequently that in our database applications – in queries or in PL/SQL packages – we need to use the values from more or less standard domains …
Querying ISO Country names and codes from SQL – exposing standard domains based on dynamic internet retrieval
The other day, I came across a press release – www.iso.org/iso/pressrelease.htm?refid=Ref1383 – from the ISO organization, announcing that they had issued new country codes for the islands in the …
Being Mr. Ellison…
December 23, 2010
Architecture, Database, DBA Oracle, IT, Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, Software Development
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Its almost Christmas and the end of this 2010 year and I keep wondering what will happen, Oracle wise, in 2011. I have, had, my idea’s about what might …
Extreme Decoupling in SQL – Select and DML against a table that is not a table at all
One of the key objectives – though not ulterior motives – in Service Oriented Architecture is decoupling. By decoupling currently mutually dependent agents, we introduce more opportunity for flexibility, …
Anti-Search patterns – SQL to look for what is NOT there – Part One
Usually in SQL queries, you will try to retrieve information from a database by reading specific records from the relevant tables. However, there are situations where what you want …
Obtain a BPEL process model out of a history log
In this post I will describe how to obtain a BPEL process model out of the history log of a proprietary workflow application. This post is related to the …
ADF 11g : Change a Viewobjects’ Query on the Fly
November 26, 2010
Databases, Development Tools, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web/Java
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One of the requirements at my current project is to have one ADF table display data from different database tables. That is, depending on criteria entered by the user, …
WebLogic 11g:Override Production enabled Security
When you configure yor domain in WebLogic 11g, by screen install or by scripts, when you choose Production Mode security will be more strict as in Development Mode. Normally …
Monitoring availability Admin and managed servers in WebLogic 11g
Here an simple example how to monitor if your AdminServer and managed servers are up and running with WLST Run it with $WL_HOME/ common/bin/wlst.sh -loadProperties <property_file> <script_name>   ($WL_HOME is …
Do not register bugs, Fix them!
For years I was a fan of bug/issue management systems and worked with open systems like Jira or Bugzilla. I’ve used these systems during the development and production/ support phase …