Book Review: Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion Development
A couple of weeks ago yet another ADF book was released. This time it was Grant Ronald’s turn. He managed to write a “Quick Start Guide to Oracle Fusion …
Category: IT
Convert PDF or Images through Optical Character Recognition to text (in Google Docs)
In the email that informed me that in a few months time my Google Groups will no longer be supported or even available (ouch, that hurts) – I noticed …
AS_PDF, generating a PDF-document with some plsql
I’ve written a small package (1500 lines). But with this package you can generate a PDF-document with a few lines of PL/SQL code. It’s small because it lacks some …
Handling Complex XML Schemas
Currently sitting in at Sam Iducula, Consulting member of the tech. staff and Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager for Oracle XML DB. Before getting into the more in-depth topics …
AMIS presenteert "Verslag van Oracle Open World en Java One 2010'
Voor het vijfde achtereenvolgende jaar organiseert AMIS deze openbare bijeenkomst waarin uitgebreid verslag wordt gedaan van de belangrijkste conferenties van het jaar: Oracle Open World en JavaOne. Op woensdag …
More than five years later – we are finally there: Larry Elison announcing Fusion Applications
September 20, 2010
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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Larry Ellison: We set out to deliver the next generation of business applications. Our task: Take all of the best features from Oracle’s major application products – including E …
Larry Ellison – Opening Keynote of Oracle Open World 2010 – announcing Exalogic, the cloud in a box.
September 20, 2010
Database, Engineered Systems, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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The first major keynote of this year’s Oracle Open World conference was last night – Larry Ellison announcing the Oracle Exalogic machine, the “cloud in a box”. A high …
What questions to get answered at Oracle Open World 2010
The sun is setting in Redwood Shores. The sky is red; the Oracle HQ towers are silhouetted against this dramatic red backdrop. Red, the color San Francisco is about …
ADF 11g : Import From Excel Into an ADF Table
September 16, 2010
Development Tools, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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ADF 11g provides an “export to excel” feature that allows you to take data from an ADF table into an excel sheet. But what about the other way around. …
What questions to get answered at Java One 2010
It is a very early morning in Redwood City. I am currently in a hotel with a great view on the imposing towers of Oracle’s Head Quarters (although it …
Advert: ODTUG Seriously Practical Conferences – OPP2010 / APEXposed!2010
I have some hard weeks ahead (MOTS, OOW, an article for a DB Magazine, OPP2010), until the end of October. Self inflected, I know, but anyway 😉 If MOTS …
Plea for a Little Bit of Help…
Hereby my plea for Debra, who is in need for a little bit of help. To finish up here presentation(s) for Oracle Open World see would really like to …
Is the purpose of testing to verify that the software works or is it to try to break it?
This question is asked many often. However there is no one answer. Reading a lot of reactions – in one of the Linkedin community groups – I noticed that …
JHeadstart 11g: Tree-Form with drag and drop functionallity
A little over two years ago I wrote a post on drag and drop in an adf tree component. That post was based on ADF only. In the following …
ADF 11g: That is one very smart toolbarbutton !
August 10, 2010
AMIS, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web/Java
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There are situations where you need a toolbar to provide the user with functionality like insert, update, delete, next, previous and so on. This looks straightforward, but it is …
Call for Papers UKOUG ends on Monday
Be aware that the Call for papers for the UKOUG Tech. Conference in December is closing on Monday. ….and yes I know, having Oracle Open World almost opening its …
ADF 11g: Select all rows in an ADF table.
I get a lot of questions on how to select all rows in a table. In this post I describe how you can do that. A common use case …
External Views (XML based)
Something new? Eh? Should you do this? Eh? In all, probably not, but for me this was a good exercise towards some more updated demo scripting for my “Boost …
ADF 11g Skinning: Three ways to change look and feel
On the JDeveloper ADF forum there are many questions on how to change the look and feel of components. In this post I’ll explain three ways to do that.
Oracle Team Productivity Center
‘Oracle Team Productivity Center (TPC) is an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool that enables software development teams to collaborate and work productively together when developing applications using JDeveloper.’ (OTN …
Invoke SOA Composite application through RMI as remote EJB (using binding.adf)
In a recent post I described how we can use the EJB Binding in SOA Suite 11g PS2 to invoke a SOA Composite application through RMI as a remote …
Publish SOA Composite application as EJB to be invoked from Java applications using EJB Binding
With the recent (April 2010) SOA Suite 11g R1 Patch Set 2 (11.1.1.3.0), several new capabilities have been added to the SOA Suite. One these is the EJB Binding. …
Parsing a Microsoft Word docx, and unzip zipfiles, with PL/SQL
Some days ago a collegue of mine asked if I could made something for him to unzip a Microsoft Word 2007 docx file. And of course in the database …
Aanmelden AMIS Query "An Evening With…": Doug Burns
Op Donderdag 17 juni, vanaf 18:00 uur, zal Oracle Database Expert en Oracle ACE Director Doug Burns(Schotland), een kennisavond vullen met live demo’s op basis van de Oracle Enterprise …
Aangeboden: ADF 11g Training – 7-11 juni (Nieuwegein)
Van maandag 7 tot en met vrijdag 11 juni verzorgen Luc Bors en Lucas Jellema een 5-daagse ADF 11g training – in het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. Deze …
Extending XML Document Validation with Schematron
The use of XML documents is common practice nowadays and so is XML schema (XSD) to validate XML documents. XML validation is often needed to ensure structure, content and …
Technical Preview of ADF Mobile Client has arrived !
The Technical Preview of ADF Mobile Client now is generally available! Ted Farrell, Chief Architect and Sr. Vice President of Tools and Middleware introduced the latest break-through in mobile …
Compliments; Instant productivity improvement for software teams, with a small effort….
Hello, you project manager/team leader. I expected this title to grasp your attention. Would you like to know how to improve the performance of your team members? This can …
Bookreview: Oracle Fusion Developer Guide
April 20, 2010
Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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Oracle Fusion Developer Guide: Building Rich Internet Applications With Oracle ADF Business Components And Oracle ADF Faces In December 2009 some 750 pages of ADF examples and ADF how-to’s …
Book review of: Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial
Getting Started With Oracle SOA Suite 11g R1: A Hands-On Tutorial Authors: Demed L’Her, Heidi Buelow, Jayaram Kasi, Manas Deb, Prasen Palvankar (aka Oracle Product Management for SOA Suite) …
Castle in the clouds – Building the Connexys SaaS application with Fusion Middleware
SaaS applications serve users in many organizations from a single application instance running in a cloud. Common SaaS requirements include: customization including hiding and adding fields, managing boilerplate text …
Java Callout in Mediator to Automatically Deal With Empty Elements
One of the most annoying things with XML Schema validation is that it will not accept empty elements of certain types, like xsd:date and xsd:double, even though the element …
Utl_compress, gzip and zlib
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Oracle has a a supplied package utl_compress, which can be used to compress and decompress data with PL/SQL. According to the documentation it uses the “Lempel-Ziv compression algorithme”, and …
Hotsos 2010 – About swag, the Oscars and other stuff
Its Sunday and its raining outside. The nice weather on Saturday (approx. sunny / 20 degrees Celsius) has gone. After a decent flight on Friday where I actually made …
ADF 11g : Carousel going round and round (..and round and..)
Mostly when you see a carousel-ish component on the internet, it is automatically showing the next entry after a few seconds. I wondered if this could be done with …
What Happened?
What’s this? Nope, it’s not your browser, HTML debugging proxy or broken CSS style sheet. You are still visiting the AMIS technology weblog. Don’t be afraid: AMIS has just …
Leveraging RESTful Services from Java applications using Jersey (Introduction)
While researching for the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Handbook, I wanted to take a quick look at REST(ful) WebServices and see how those can be integrated into the SCA …
ADF 11g – Extend and Override standard client side behavior by manipulating the Javascript prototype
This article describes a way to extend and override the standard behavior of ADF client side JavaScript libraries. In this particular case we needed to learn about the client …
JDeveloper 11.1.1.2: Carousel component as Master and Detail
In this post I introduce to you one of the new ADF Rich Client components and one way to use it: The Carousel. You can display a set of images through …
Migrating your web applications from JEE5 to JEE6
On Wednesday, November 11, the Netherlands Java Users Group (NL-JUG) organized the JFall 2009 Java conference. At the conference I had the pleasure of doing a presentation with a …