Category: IT
A recent acquisition by Oracle involved a company called Empirix, that sold its e-Test Suite product to Oracle. Oracle is now integrating this product with Enterprise Manager, under the …
While implementing some additions to the existing Oracle Incentive Compensation implementation at our customer site we got complaints from the end users about the performance of some of the …
One of the sessions I attended yesterday at OOW was by Juan Camilo Ruiz, Product Manager for Oracle Development Tools. His talk was titled ‘Introduction to Oracle ADF Desktop …
The problem Last week I installed some updates for windows and internet explorer. After installing I tried to open a form page, but instead of opening forms my internet …
Today, Google, T-mobile and HTC launched the G1, the firt android phone. It’s quite a cool phone, not as good looking as the iPhone, but spec-wise just as interesting. …
Due to jet lag, I have plenty of time to shop around in the candy store that is called ADF 11g. Occasionally, upon close inspection of this or that …
One of the major announcements during Charles Philips’ keynote: Oracle Beehive: integrated and secure collaboration platform.The successor to Oracle Collaboration Suite.Targeted at Enterprise Collaboration. And allegedly ‘built from scratch …
After Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 and Wife 2.0, Oracle introduces the term DBA 2.0. It seems to refer to the DBA of the very near future. The one who …
Reusability – and from there higher productivity and easier maintenance – is one of the key themes for ADF 11g. There are several important new concepts introduced in this …
Woke up very early this morning due to the time differences between the States and Europe, but this helped me to focus on my first speaker session on the …
In a recent article I gave a brief introduction of the ADF 11g Placeholder Data Control – see: ADF 11g Placeholder Data Control – for off line demonstration of …
ADF applications are typically heavily into data. One of the major strengths of the framework is the data binding layer that allows rapid development of complex user interfaces bound …
In a previous article – Not all has to be black and white in SQL Queries – , I discuss how not all searches are about perfect matches. The …
Currently waiting on the airport to go to San Francisco. Luckely had the time to write this blog. Last time I checked the number of pre-enrolled people for my …
Recently I sat in on a very interesting presentation on an advanced search and matching engine called Elise. The power of this engine lies in the fact that it …
I consider myself father first and geek second, though some people may have different ideas about this. Tonight it happened the two met. With their mother away for a …
A short while ago (august 26 and 27) I attended the Oracle SOA Partner Community Forum V in Utrecht (the Netherlands). With over 200 participants from all over Europe …
The title is based on Doug’s blog post UKOUG Agenda Online. I can’t help myself, I just like the title, but it probably does not relate to this post…or …
Without solid governance, a successful application of SOA seems out of the question. That much has become clear in recent months, perhaps years. And it struck me that most …
Hereby a small update on our AMIS Query – Preview session Oracle Open World. Our list of presenters is complete and a lot of people already registered via the …
One of the latest challenges I was involved in, was a project for a worldwide organization that closed the acquisition of another brand.The company of that other brand was …
Java Server Faces 1.2 as a specification has been out for some time now. JSF 2.0 is in the works – probably looking at finalizing in the Spring of …
The other night I had an interesting dinner date: seated around me were an Oracle ACE Director (Mark) and two Oracle employees, experts on Oracle Coherence (Ewan) and Oracle …
In your project, allocate time (and budget!) for research. I used to think that all activities should contribute directly and specifically to the end goal. I now tend more …
A BPEL process without using vendor specific extensions should run everywhere without much hassle. But unfortunately it doesn’t. In this article I will show you how to create a …
We try to do our best, so some extra practice never hurts. If we think such an event or session can be interesting for our Dutch peers, we call …
A few weeks ago I received a Request for Information for a substantial project. There was one question that struck me: “Describe on which moments your organization communicates with …
I almost forgot that there was life before JDeveloper and ADF 11g…… As of last week, the JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 release is available for download on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/htdocs/soft10134.html. Apparently, this …
“To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.†(Anna Pavlova, a famous ballerina). To repeat the quote from my last blog. The goal must be worth …
 “To follow, without halt, one aim: There’s the secret of success.†(Anna Pavlova, a famous ballerina). Completely true of course. A project rarely fails due to one large incident …
One very efficient way of passing data from the Java application to the database is through the use of custom Oracle Types. Even when we want to send a …
In this article something you may never do in exactly this way. Yet something that may become increasingly more useful, as our databases will have ever more Data Service …
Recently I have been doing quite some work with WebServices – calling them and implementing them, from and in both PL/SQL and Java. And in conjunction with BPEL and …
This is the seventh 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 …
I just got a hint from my colleague Lucas, via the AMIS internal channels (aka "sharepoint"), that there will be a strategy briefing via webcast about "Oracle Fusion Middleware …
The other day, I sat preparing for a demonstration of a data driven Java Web application. I preferred to be able to present the demo without actually having to …
I have no idea when they made it available but, while searching on Oracle E-delivery for a complete Oracle BPA package, I saw that a lot of BEA software …
The 11g release of the Oracle Database gave us the PL/SQL Function Result Cache. This feature can help speed up performance in calling PL/SQL functions by caching function When …
The ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference in New Orleans has just finished with the Apex vs ADF session of Lucas Jellema and Dimitri Gielis. They both demonstrated that you can create …
One of things to learn during conferences is about the tricks used by fellow presenters to make their presentations better fun. One of the nicest things I picked up …
