Introduction In my previous blog I’ve explained what a Canonical Data Model (CDM) is and why you should use it. This blog is about how to do this. I will share my experiences on how to create and use a CDM. I gained these experiences at several projects, small ones, […]
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Development and Runtime Experiences with a Canonical Data Model Part II: XML Namespace Standards
This blog is about XML namespace standards. Primary for using them in a Canonical Data Model (CDM), but also interesting for anyone who has to define XML data by creating XML Schema files (XSD). This blogpost is the second part of a trilogy about my experiences in using and developing […]
Development and Runtime Experiences with a Canonical Data Model Part III: Dependency Management & Interface Tailoring
Introduction This blogpost is part III, the last part of a trilogy on how to create and use a Canonical Data Model (CDM). The first blogpost contains part I in which I share my experiences in developing a CDM and provide you with lots of standards and guidelines for creating […]
Benefits of a Canonical Data Model (CDM) in a SOA environment
Introduction The last few years I’ve been working in several SOA related projects, small projects as well as quite large projects. Almost all of these projects use a Canonical Data Model (CDM). In this post I will explain what a CDM is and point out what the benefits are of […]
How to create an if-then-else expression (aka ternary operator) in an XPath 1.0 expression?
There are situations where I have to create an XPath expression that performs something like if-then-else logic (similar to a CASE or DECODE expression in SQL or a ternary operator in Java or JavaScript). Unfortunately, XPath 1.0 – a version still widely found – does not support the XPath 2.0 […]
Processing large files through SOA Suite using Synchronous File Read
Introduction Reading files using SOA Suite is very easy as the file-adapter is a powerfull adapter. However, processing of large files is less trivial. You don’t want to read the huge file into memory and then process it. Preferable you process it in smaller chunks. Chunking the file using the […]
Driedaagse Oracle Service Bus (OSB) 11g training – 29, 30 en 31 januari 2014
Wil je als ontwikkelaar met Oracle Service Bus (OSB), onderdeel van de Oracle SOA Stack, aan de slag op een project; als beheerder OSB willen beheren en monitoren; of als architect meer begrijpen van de positionering van het OSB, dan is deze hands-on training iets voor jou. Je leert de […]
Het Oracle OpenWorld Preview Evenement (5 september 2013) – 15 sprekers & sessies
Vanaf 22 september vindt in San Francisco de Oracle OpenWorld conferentie plaats: hét evenement waar Oracle haar productstrategie uit de doeken doet en waar Oracle specialisten van over de hele wereld ervaringen uitwisselen. Tegelijk met Oracle OpenWorld wordt ook de JavaOne conferentie georganiseerd, het trefpunt voor de wereldwijde Java gemeenschap. […]
Oracle Database 12c: XMLIndex Support for Hash Partitioning
XMLIndex support for Hash Partitioning is now also supported in Oracle 12c. In Oracle 11 there was already support for RANGE and LIST partitioning, but not yet for HASH partitioning. Some examples for the later two:
Oracle Database 12c: XQuery Full Text
New in Oracle 12c and one of the big new features in XMLDB is the XQuery Full Text functionality and, as mentioned in the post about XQuery Update, is the official W3C standard to handle unstructured pieces of XML content. The XQuery Full Text and XQuery Full Text Index extends […]
Oracle Database 12c: XQuery Update
New, new…? No, not really new, XQuery Update (W3C standard/draft 2011) was already implemented in 11.2.0.3.0, but is now officially also announced. Besides the XQuery Full Text support (XQFT for short, W3C standard/draft 2011), this is one of the big new features in Oracle 12c. With this update XQuery functionality, […]
Oracle Database 12c: Export by View
A small enhancement, but what a golden nugget! At least that’s what I think. 😉 It is now possible in Oracle 12c to export data via a view. I my realm, Oracle XMLDB, that can be an interesting feature to export stored XML content in a relational format and import […]
Oracle Database 12c: Oracle XMLDB is now Mandatory!
Is this one of my highlights? No not really, but it is a remarkable one. Oracle XMLDB functionality is now mandatory and can not be uninstalled. As mentioned in the new feature section of the Oracle XMLDB Developers Guide for Oracle 12c: Oracle XML DB is now a mandatory component […]
Hotsos Revisited 2013 – Presentatie materiaal
Hierbij nog dank voor allen die aanwezig waren bij de weer gevulde, informatieve & gezellige avond tijdens “Hotsos Revisited 2013”. Wij presentatoren hebben genoten van het ambiance. Hier ook nog voor degenen die graag het nog een keer willen nalezen het presentatie materiaal van Toon, Jacco, Gerwin, Frits en mij… […]
Training Oracle ADF 11g, 15 tot en met 19 april
Van 15 tot en met 19 april geeft Luc Bors de 5-daagse ADF 11g training op het kantoor van AMIS in Nieuwegein. In 5 dagen leer je de basis van Oracle ADF 11g. De training bestaat basis uit presentatie, demonstratie en hands on, doorspekt met best practices en voorbeelden uit […]
Hotsos 2013 – Presentation material “Creating Structure in Unstructured Data”
Hereby, for those who want another look or for people to share, my presentation content “Creating Structure in Unstructured Data” given during the Hotsos 2013 Symposium on Monday morning. HTH Marco Hotsos 2013 – Creating Structure in Unstructured Data from Marco Gralike
Hotsos 2013 – From Unstructured to Structured…
It has been a while that I have been attending Hotsos, although that is how it feels. In 2011 I flew to Hotsos to see, among others presentations from Maria Colgan, but I ended up being sick the whole week while learning on my hotel room to enjoy American TV. […]
Hotsos Revisited 2013
Van 3 tot en met 7 maart vindt in Irving, Texas, het internationale Oracle performance Hotsos Symposium plaats. Dit jaar belooft het symposium een garantstelling voor inhoudelijk hoogstaande presentaties en discussies, want naast presentaties van Tom Kyte, Cary Millsap, Maria Colgan en Steven Feuerstein over performance, worden er ook onderwerpen […]
Basisregistraties Adressen en Gebouwen – Het importeren van Kadaster BAG data in een Oracle Database
Vorig jaar heb ik behoorlijk wat vragen gekregen over of er een tool was, een methodiek, om BAG data van het Nederlandse Kadaster in een Oracle database te krijgen voor allerlei doeleinden. Basisregistraties Adressen en Gebouwen (BAG) data wordt onder andere uitgeleverd door het Kadaster in XML bestanden waarin alle […]
AMIS vat Oracle OpenWorld samen in speciale whitepaper
Als sluitstuk van de jaarlijkse Oracle OpenWorld conferentie brengt AMIS een whitepaper uit. Een handzaam document waarin het volledige verhaal van Oracle OpenWorld 2012 is gebundeld. Een team van AMIS was tijdens de conferentie in oktober nadrukkelijk aanwezig; als sponsor, deelnemer, netwerker en spreker – en als aandachtig luisteraar en […]
OOW 2012 – And was there news on the XMLDB front…?
Just finished my Birds of a Feather XMLDB panel session in the Marriott Hotel and now looking back on a event full day. It all started of with a Keynote session with among others Mark Hurd. the most interesting bit, in my honest opinion, was the announcement of more details […]
OOW 2012 – Oracle XML DB Hands-On Lab (HOL10055)
I posted, as (my) tradition dictates, the Oracle agenda overview of XMLDB sessions during Oracle Open World 2012. I already signed up for the HOL10055 session but yesterday I also got a quick peek of it’s contents this year. And yes, I can promise you, it is a must go, […]
Oracle RDBMS 10GR1: solution to avoid character encoding in XML with UPDATEXML
On a recent project, I ran into a problem with an XML document, that had to be enclosed within another XML document, generated from a database query. The problem I ran into was the character encoding of the XMLElement function, which eventually was worked around with UPDATEXML. In this blog […]
Oracle XML Training With Marco Gralike
I was asked by Jože Senegačnik, if I would be would be interested in doing a Masterclass/Seminar in Slovenia and, yes of course, I really liked the idea. So after having a quick look in my agenda, regarding my free time, we started to set things up. This 2 day […]
Create a JasperReport from Oracle BPEL
In my previous post I described how to create a Report (CDBooklet) with JasperReport in Java. Follow this link to take a look at the post ‘Using Java to create a report with the JasperReport java API’ For this new post I created a webservice wrapper around this reporting functionality […]
Using Java to create a report with the JasperReport java API
In this blog I will describe how to create a Report with JasperReport in Java. For this purpose I have used the Communitie edition of iReport. This edition contains besides JasperReport also iReport. iReport is a report designer for JasperReport. You can download it from http://jasperforge.org/projects/ireport After installation I started […]
Business Validation in Oracle SOA Suite 11g using Schematron
In a previous post I’ve explained the Schematron standard, how it works and how to use it. In the Oracle SOA Suite you can ‘Validate Semantic’ on the input (request) of a routing rule in a Mediator component by selecting a Schematron file. This is the Schemtron xml file in […]
Using the Oracle XMLDB Repository to Automatically Shred Windows Office Documents (Part 1)
People who have attended the UKOUG presentation this year where Mark Drake, Sr. Product Manager XML Technologies / XMLDB, Oracle HQ, and I demonstrated the first principles of the XDB Repository, might have been impressed with its (GEO/KML Spatial, Image EXIF info) capabilities combined with Google Earth. This post will […]
UKOUG 2011 – Drag, Drop and other Stuff. Using your Database as a File Server
Last Thuesday, Mark Drake, Senior Product Manager and I, delivered a good presentation during UKOUG in Birmingham about how to use your database, via XMLDB functionality, as a file server. The presentation demonstrated as well how you could extent the “standaard” file server (aka your database) functionality with features like, […]
Absolutely Typical – The whole story on Types and how they power PL/SQL Interoperability (UKOUG, 2011)
This presentation will hopefully convince database developers that types in the Oracle Database are worth their salt – and more. With the recent improvements in 11gR2, the pieces are available to complete the puzzle of structured and modern programming with a touch of OO and more importantly to create a […]
UKOUG 2011: Using your Database as a Fileserver
UKOUG 2011 is nearby and one of the coolest things in Oracle 11g and onwards is, IMHO, a functionality called XDB Repository Events. Most of you probably know that based on XMLDB functionality in the database, the database also can be used in a File server kind of way by […]
OOW 2011 – Oracle XMLDB and Big Data
Last day of Oracle Open World and I am currently attending the last presentations. The first presentation, “Oracle XMLDB: A noSQL Approach to Managing all your Unstructured Data”, deals with the no-SQL approach and using Oracle XML DB in the context of using it with “Big Data”, that is unstructured […]
Oracle XMLDB XQuery Update in Database Release 11.2.0.3.0
I just made use of the very cool OTN Virtual Developer Day Database site. In this environment you can follow OTN Developer Day sessions, for example, at home, while making use of all the material available on that site plus the downloadable Virtualbox OTN Developer Day Appliance. Despite you can […]
Generate IDs in all components in ADF Faces pages and fragments – to facilitate automated Selenium based testing
Lately, we have been introducing Selenium based testing for many our ADF Faces based web applications. Or rather, our testers created the tests for the web pages using Selenium. And did so quite successfully. However, certain test scripts seemed to fall apart after having been run only a few times. […]
Screen scraping using Google Documents in a minute or less…
In a previous blog Lucas used JSoup to collect data from a web page. In this post I’ll show a declarative way to screen scrape data with the help of Google Documents. The following webpage http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamesyear.htm?g=26 contains the olympic data I would like to import Open a new Google spreadsheet […]
Running XQuery from Java applications using the XQJ API and the Oracle XDK implementation
While preparing for the new SOA for Java Professionals training program at AMIS, I was recently working on a section discussing XQuery and more specifically the ability to use XQuery from Java as an alternative to JAXB binding to POJOs on the one hand and DOM based XPath searches on […]
How to call a webservice directly from Java (without webservice library)
In this blog I will show you how you can call a webservice programmatically in Java without using a webservice library like JAX-WS or Apache Axis. Normally you would use of course a webservice library, but in some cases this can be useful and quick; for example when you have […]
Turning any XML document into a Java Object graph using JAXB 2.0
As a followup to my recent article on how to Produce and XML document based on data in a POJO structure using JAXB (https://technology.amis.nl/blog/12499/creating-an-xml-document-based-on-my-pojo-domain-model-how-will-jaxb-help-me) I will describe in this article how to go the reverse route: how to take any XML document and process it into a Java Object graph. […]
Creating an XML document based on my POJO domain model – how will JAXB help me?
The challenge is a common one. We have got data in a domain model, based on POJOs. And we need to marshall that data into an XML document. Note that the exact structure of that document is not so important – we will probably translate is somewhere anyway. At this […]
ODTUG KScope Preview 2011
Ook dit jaar, namelijk op dinsdag 14 Juni, organiseert AMIS de ODTUG Preview. Het jaarlijkse congres van de ODTUG, de Oracle Development Tools Users Group, vind dit jaar plaats in Longbeach, California van 26 tot en met 30 juni. Het is niet voor iedereen weggelegd om daar naar toe te […]