XFiles – An APEX Community Effort
Just so you know, there is an APEX demo app. out there that never has seen the light. The demo application based on Mark Drake’s (Sr. Product Manager Oracle …
Category: IT
AMIS Query – Verslag van Oracle Open World 2009 – dinsdag 27 oktober (uitnodiging)
October 23, 2009
Database, IT, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, SOA
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Vorige week was in San Francisco het hoogtepunt van het Oracle jaar: Oracle Open World 2009, de grootste IT conferentie ter wereld. Tijdens deze conferentie ontvouwde Oracle haar strategie …
Advanced Oracle SQL seminars in Melbourne (13 November) and Singapore (20 November)
SQL is fun. As well as the most powerful tool in the hands of Oracle Database developers. When you are a database developer, you know SQL. And that knowledge …
One day seminar – Introducing Oracle 11g to database developers in Melbourne (12 November) and Singapore (19 November)
Oracle Database 11gR2 has been released for Linux and will soon be made available on other platforms. This is typically the time that many organizations to start adopting the …
5 day ADF 11g Training – vanaf maandag 26 oktober
Maandag 26 oktober start bij AMIS de vijf-daagse ADF 11g training (ontwikkeld in samenwerking met Chris Muir van SAGE – Perth, Australië). Tijdens deze training zullen Luc Bors en …
Worth Seeing – The Pythian OOW09 Diaries
Oracle Open World, for this year, is done/is a wrap. A good presentation of the atmosphere can be seen on the "The Pythian OOW09 Diaries", on YouTube, were Alex …
OOW 2009: Experiences with Oracle WebCenter 11g: Implementing SOA with a User Interface
October 14, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Web HTML5 CSS3, WebCenter
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One of the sessions I am (co-)presenting at Oracle Open World 2009 is on ‘applying the concepts of SOA to and achieving the SOA objectives with User Interfaces’. …
OOW 2009: The killer feature of Oracle Database 11gR2 – Edition Based Redefinition (or database object versioning)
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Today I presented on what is possibly the hottest story on the Oracle Database 11gR2 release: Edition Based Redefinition (EBR). EBR allows us to add a whole new dimension …
Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – Solving a Sudoku using Recursive Subquery Factoring
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces a new feature called Recursive Subquery Factoring. My collegue Lucas sees it as a substitute for Connect By based hierarchical querying, Oracle RDBMS …
OOW 2009 – And they call that a "patch set"? Marvels coming up in ADF 11gR1 PS 1
October 12, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Last Friday I attended a product briefing at Oracle HQ that prepared me for today’s Oracle Open World 2009 keynote presentation by Ted Farrell on development tools and …
First Day at OOW2009
My OpenWorld 2009 started out this morning with a keynote by Tom Kyte named "What Are We Still Doing Wrong?". A lighthearted presentation with lots of funny examples of …
OOW 2009: APEX 4.0 – a source of inspiration
This article is about APEX – some of my initial impressions from the pending (deep into 2010) APEX 4.0 release. And the title is in no way meant …
OOW 2009: Introducing SOA and Oracle SOA Suite 11g for Database Professionals
The Oracle Open World 2009 conference is almost underway. On Monday 12th October I will do two presentations, and I am done preparing the first one of them …
Book Review: Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g by Deepak Vohra
A few months ago I came across a relatively new book: Processing XML Documents with Oracle JDeveloper 11g by Deepak Vohra (370 pages, Packt Publishing, ISBN 978-1-847196-66-8, February …
Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – new style hierarchical querying using Recursive Subquery Factoring
Oracle Database 11g Release 2 introduces the successor to the good old Connect By based hierarchical querying, called Recursive Subquery Factoring. The basics are described in a previous …
Introducing Oracle 11gR2 Edition Based Redefinition or: On Parallel Application Universes
One of the most spectacular new facilities in Release 2 of the Oracle 11g Database is called Edition Based Redefinition – not a name perhaps that suggests any spectacle. …
What You Always Wanted to Know (but never dared to ask about…)
For "What you always wanted to know, but never dared to ask about Oracle 11g Release 2…", come and attend our technical session on 29th of September during the …
Oracle Database 11gR2 – New analytical function NTH_VALUE
You are probably familiar with the FIRST_VALUE and LAST_VALUE analytical functions that were introduced some time ago into the Oracle RDBMS, in the 9iR2 release I believe (or at …
Oracle SQL and PL/SQL: juggling with user defined types (ADT) and XMLType – for creating an ADT based XML Service API
Packages in the Oracle Database are a fine construct to use for creating a service API at PL/SQL level – that through JDBC or other connections into the database …
Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – New PREPROCESSOR Syntax for External Table Use
One of the other small but very useful new features in the Oracle 11gR2 database is the addition of a PREPROCESSOR parameter for the create EXTERNAL table statement. This PREPROCESSOR clause …
Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – alter or replace user defined types even when there are dependencies
In our series on the 11g R2 release of the Oracle RDBMS, AMIS staff discusses various functions, features an facilities that have been added, improved or extended in this …
Creating a custom JSF 1.2 component – with facets, resource handling, events and listeners, valueExpression and methodExpression attributes
I occasionally create custom JavaServer Faces components. Just enough to sort of remember what the steps are, but not nearly frequently enough to quickly put a new component together. …
Oracle RDBMS 11gR2 – goodbye Connect By or: the end of hierarchical querying as we know it
Many years ago, Oracle basically set the standard in SQL. Whatever was Oracle SQL could be seen as the standard. This has never been absolutely true – ANSIÂ SQL was …
ADF DataBinding: Yet another thing it does for you.
August 17, 2009
Development Tools, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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Today I encountered something that I have seen frequently. While developing an ADF application developers tend to invoke methods on an application module directly, instead of invoking them via …
Making GlassFish v3 available using Apache2 and mod_jk
The upcoming release of JEE 6 means that the next release of GlassFish, version 3, still is under development. However, it is stable enough to try out many features …
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 10: Simplicity -the art of maximizing the amount of work not done- is essential
August 3, 2009
IT, Agile Scrum, AMIS, Project Management, Software Development, Software Engineering
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This is the tenth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss …
Installing WebCenter 11g – Design Time and Run Time (and on Linux)
Getting started with WebCenter 11g, released on July 1st 2009, is quite easy. What you have to do exactly depends on the environment you work in, the bits …
Dutch Oracle Open World Preview 2009
"Almost" Oracle Open World again… AMIS, represented via Peter Ebell, Lucas Jellema and me (Marco Gralike), entered several abstracts for this years Oracle Open World Conference. Probably to our …
Report from presentation ‘JPA 2.0 – What’s new’
July 15, 2009
AMIS, IT, Java, PL/SQL, Software Development, Software Engineering, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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The Java Specification Request 317 (JSR-317) aka JavaTM Persistence 2.0, (JPA 2.0) has finally reached the last stage, “Completion of Reference Implementation (RI) and Technology Compatibility Kit (TCK)”, before …
ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009
Recently I presented for the fourth time at the annual ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference. It’s really a great conference that I recommend to every Oracle consultant. It features great presentations, …
ADF 11g PanelDashboard; configure your own dashboard
July 9, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Tools, Web/Java
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With the recent ADF release a new component is introduced: The panelDashboard component. A component that is easy to use and offers a very visual presentation. With this component we can …
Foundation for Innovation – FMW 11g
One of the taglines I saw last week for the Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g technology stack was ‘ Foundation for Innovation’. I like that one quite a lot. …
Using ADF Faces 11g Skinning for setting the styles of specific component instances or groups of instances
Skinning in ADF Faces is used to define user defined customizations with respect to one of the standard ADF skins. A skin is by and large a CSS document …
Oracle Enhances XBRL Reporting Capabilities with UBmatrix, Inc.
June 27, 2009
AMIS, Architecture, Database, DBA Oracle, Development Tools, Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, XML
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Oracle posted a press release about their involvement and commitment for UBMatrix XBRL technologies last Wednesday saying (among others): "To help publicly held companies facilitate the preparation, publishing and …
Oracle Fusion Applications – it is for real! (and impressive too)
June 23, 2009
Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle E-Business Suite, SOA
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When Oracle started acquiring companies in the ERP space, they unfolded (the outline of) the Fusion strategy. With three aspects to it as I understood it: the Fusion …
That's Rich! Putting a smile on ADF Faces (presenting at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009)
The ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 conference started on Sunday with four parallel symposia followed by a stunning demonstration of the upcoming Fusion Applications product based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g …
Introducing Joda Time: The smart date API
Recently I did a short presentation on Joda Time. Yesterday, on our yearly ODTUG preview, I was surpised that Joda Time is not known very well by ADF developers. To …
Publish a WebService from a POJA (plain old Java application) – that is: out of the container using EndPoint class
This very brief article will demonstrate a very useful feature of Java 6 Standard Edition – that means: the Java as it is running in any stand-alone application. …
JavaOne 2009 – Opening and General Session – First glimpse of Oracle-Sun
JavaOne 2009 is officially underway. The conference opened with the general session, in much the same way as previous years. With an array of assorted customers and patners – …
Castle in the clouds – SaaS Enabling JavaServer Faces applications (JavaOne 2009, Technical Session)
I have just uploaded my presentation at JavaOne for the Technical Session I am presenting tomorrow: Castle in the clouds – SaaS Enabling JavaServer Faces applications (12.10, Esplanade 302, …