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I came across an interesting site: del.icio.us . It describes itself as “a social bookmarks manager. It allows you to easily add sites you like to your personal collection …
Thanks to Mark Rittman’s blog: The Oracle Export File DDL Extract Wizard What Does the DDL Extract Wizard Do? The DDL Extract Wizard will reverse engineer Oracle Export files …
From this thread on The Server Side: HttpUnit 1.6 released. HttpUnit 1.6, the first new production release in over a year, is now available. HttpUnit emulates the relevant portions …
Java and persistence are hot. And continue to be hot. If I read things correctly, Sun – through Linda DeMichiel and Craig Russell Specification Leads, JSR-220 and JSR-243 – …
I have given the meta-data features in the J2SE 5.0 Tiger Release some more thought. Reading – in this order – through the following articles, I rather quickly had …
Last Friday I visited the Oracle OpenWorld conference in Amsterdam. Here’s a short report of my visit. The day started with the general keynote session ‘Technology Inspired Collaboration’ by …
Craig McClanahan of Struts and JSF fame has started his own Blog. Let us add it to our roll..
Last Friday I was on Oracle Open World in Amsterdam. Although the conference wasn’t as big as I am used to from previous years, there were enough interesting sessions …
All the news etc. starts here: J2SE 5.0 Home For new features see here (new features). and here (release notes). Then there is the article: Java 5.0 in a …
This tip comes from a very interesting paper by John Flack. It is titled MVC Development in PL/SQL and appeared in the August issue of the ODTUG Technical Journal …
During the Amsterdam stage of the Oracle Open World Tour, I had a great opportunity to interview John Wookey Senior Vice President, Applications Development at Oracle Corporation. John is …
In between sessions on Oracle Open World I visited the demogrounds. In one of the booths Duncan Mills was demonstrating Oracles ADF framework in JDeveloper 10g. IMHO the documentation …
Today I visited Oracle Open World in Amsterdam, here are some of the points I picked up. In the “Oracle Application Server 10g Technical Overview” session David Keene gave …
Yesterday, we had another AMIS Query session titled The Future of Oracle Designer. It discussed the future of Oracle development tools, more specifically Oracle Designer and Forms as well …
During our session on the Future of Oracle Designer yesterday I had a conversation with Josef Megens of Oracle Consulting and told me of a trick conceived by Mark …
In this post I will discuss some thoughts I have on the further development of CDM RuleFrame (the Framework for implementing Business Rules). It seems to me that a) …
On /. there is a post on Sybase releasing their flagship database for Linux for free. However, this does not include a release of the source code, so we …
In HTML it is possible to define an accesskey for a control. For example if you want to have a button which the user can click using the hot-key …
Today I tried to put all my biases (I’m a j2ee developer) aside, and had a look at HTML-DB. “Oracle HTML DB is a declarative web-based application development environment …
After my post on HTML forms yesterday I was fooling around with the fieldset and label tags. Both seem quite usefull! But Internet Explorer is really quite bad at …
Preparing slides for a presentation on Open Source Database Systems, I stumbled upon Open Source Database Systems, a neat 15 page PDF document, introducing (open source) databases, SQL, hardware …
Allthough not earthshaking there is a nice article on the devshed about formatting HTML forms. Click here The highlights for me are the tabindex, the accesskey and the fieldset. …
Looking at new features of Oracle 10g we ran into Expression Filters. Here, we will discuss our initial experiences and our conclusions as to how you can make use …
Recently, IBM announced the open-sourcing of their Cloudscape database. a lightweight, Java-based relational database with a footprint of just 2MB. It’s significantly less resource-intensive than enterprise databases like IBM’s …
If you want to see the power of Cascading Styles Sheets at work, Check out this site. It randomly generates styles to give the website a new “skin”. Just …
I was working on a Ant build file which includes a doc task generating the Javadoc for our project. Running the task from the command line worked just fine. …
Yesterday we had an excellent meeting on Java persistency frameworks, in particular Toplink. Oracle Consultant and Java expert Peter Ebell presented on his experiences with Toplink on a very …
I found a very interesting document (300 pages) with standards on Java/J2EE guidelines, Technical Paper: Java – J2EE Conventions and Guidelines Release 1.0.2 Stephan Janssen The JCS Team (2004). …
For those who can not wait to try the Struts 1.2.1 beta version in combination with ADF in JDeveloper10g, Duncan Mills has posted a “how to” on OTN. click …
For anyone who wants to get started with Eclipse 3.0 and CVS, for future reference I quote a section from the “Eclipse Tips — July 21, 2004”, as it …
There is a WordPress FAQ available, full with info useful for both the admin and the normal Blog user! For the last category the “Publishing using WordPress” section (on …
This post contains a summarized recipe from OpenSSH Public Key Authentication Setup, to setup SSH public key authentication.
At 21st July 2004, release 0.8.2 of the PLDoc open source project for generating JavaDoc style documentation for PL/SQL Code (and now also Tables and Views) was published. PLDoc …
Yesterday we (Hans, Harm, Rob, Wiene and myself) had a session with the Oracle JHeadstart team (Steven and Peter) where they demonstrated the upcoming ADF JHeadstart release. We also …
This post contains a summary of the book: “Expert one-to-one J2EE design and Development” by Ron Johnson, Wrox 2002. I did not put any effort in finding my own …
This post describes some of my recent experiences in using JSP and JSTL. For many probably highly trivial.
Do you want to fill/update the contents of the Hypersonic SQL database that is running under JBoss by running an Ant task?
An interesting article on java.net on AppFuse: AppFuse: Start Your J2EE Web Apps by Matt Raible. AppFuse tries to make it as simple as possible to build, test, and …
An interesting article appeared on OTN today: ANT 1.6 for Taskwriters. This article will show you that Ant 1.6 has also changed internally and how you can take advantage …
This post describes a list of JHeadstart Application Generator enhancements and also provides a progress report on the implementation of the features mentioned