Solving a Sudoku with 1 SQL-statement: the Model-clause
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Solving a Suduku with one SQL-statement, is that possible? A lot of people won’t believe it, but yes, it can be done.
Category: Oracle
Serve up your BPEL processes as templates
This post is about a feature in Oracle’s SOA Suite / JDeveloper 10.1.3.x that may easily go unnoticed: the option to publish a BPEL process as a template by …
Why I sometimes hate GUI’s…
Hate? Let’s say it is a love / hate thing, but I can’t help myself. I am a script nerd and probably always will be, but even I have …
Introducing the Oracle PL/SQL Pseudo Code Compiler !?? – 3rd Oracle SQL Quiz – Smokin' Water – All new, all intriguing – Come and participate: 20th June@ODTUG Kaleidoscope
For the third year running, Alex and I will present the Oracle SQL Quiz on the ODTUG conference. This Quiz has a dozen or so questions on Oracle SQL …
Donderdag 31 mei (17.00 uur): AMIS Mini-Conferentie – zes presentaties: SQL Quiz, ADF & Maven, .Net Windows Forms, Oracle BPEL & Workflow, Implementing a SOA Infrastructure, AJAX in ADF Faces
May 24, 2007
Database, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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Next month, the ODTUG 2007 Kaleidoscope Conference takes place in Daytona Beach, Florida. 125 presentations on Oracle Development tools related topics – database, SOA, BI, ADF, JEE 5, AJAX, …
Annoying pop-up’s (CiD adware) and the security equilibrium
I believe I am careful when I am on the internet. My personal laptop is almost a fortress regarding protecting me from internet scum, so I try to protect …
5-day ADF Training in The Netherlands – getting started with ADF BC, JSF, ADF Faces and ADF Model
In the week starting 4th June, AMIS will organize another edition of its five-day ADF Training on the Oracle Application Development Framework. In particular, this training will address: ADF …
Using ADF BC Event Listeners to monitor data changes application wide through RSS Feeds and Monitor Pages
May 21, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server
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ADF Business Components has a built mechanism of event-producers and listener-registration that allows for non-intrusive monitoring of data changes. At the level of Entity Objects, changes in one Entity …
Remembering the days…
Thanks Doug, for pointing out one of the first Oracle 30th anniversary links: http://www.oracle.com/oramag/profit/07-may/p27anniv_timeline.pdf. I had the privilege to meet Mr. Jacobs in person for two times now. Two …
JDeveloper 11g: Contextually Linking the Stacked Bar Chart to an ADF Data Table – synchronize data component when clicking on chart
One of the powerful features for creating rich pages, including dashboards, is the ability to refresh and synchronize data components on a page by clicking an element in a …
Creating a shuttlebox in Apex
The changelog of Apex 3.0 mentions something about featuring shuttleboxes. Don’t get too enthousiastic, you still have to do a lot of work yourself. And it’s pretty limited, because …
JDeveloper 11g: Getting those Rich Charts going – Introducing the ADF Faces Stacked BarChart
May 17, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Now that Oracle has given us a Technical Preview of JDeveloper 11g which includes the Rich Components – that will also be made available as open source library through …
Java Platform Debugger Architecture (JPDA) with Tomcat, OC4J, Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA and JDeveloper
With JPDA it is possible to propagate changes to compiled classes to the server immediately. This is very handy when you’re debugging your class files. With some older applications …
AMIS Query – 22/5/2007: Integration between Oracle Forms and HTML Web Applications (e.g. ADF)
Tuesday, May 22nd, AMIS hosts another very interesting AMIS Query event: Wilfred van der Deijl (Eurotransplant) will demonstrate his ingenious method of integrating Oracle Forms (web forms) with HTML …
Made to order: Eirik’s Hi-Lo Chart in SQL – extending the SQL Chart Palette (Pie, Stacked Bar Chart, Gauge, Gantt,…)
With the series on SQL based Charts, I can now safely commit any crime in the firm knowledge that an insanity plea will undoubtedly be accepted. After spending way …
JDeveloper 11g – Dynamic (and I mean really dynamic) Tables with ADF Faces Rich Components
May 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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You may have seen (blurry pictures of) screenshots of the dynamic table component for ADFFaces that Oracle started promising us some 11 months ago. It would have all these …
JMX – Java Management Extension – paving the way for manageable applications (JavaOne 2007)
One of the pleasant surprises in the wonderful world for J2EE (and J2SE since the Tiger Release) is JMX. It may sound complex: a not so easy acronym, targeted …
JavaOne 2007 – Winners and Losers, well… Stars and roadies
It is not yet over, the conference. And the jury is still out. And mine is only a single vote. But by now I do get a pretty clear …
JavaOne 2007 – What every Java Developer should know about BPEL
Oracle asked me to do a presentation the Oracle Mini Theater on the Java Pavilion (several Regional Directors Oracle Fusion Middleware presented there, along with Oracle product managers). Out …
JavaOne 2007 – Oracle's General Session by Thomas Kurian – Next Generation of JEE, SOA and Human Interaction
Yesterday opened with a pretty well attended General Session by Thomas Kurian, Senior Vice President Oracle Server Technologies Division. As I have become used to expect from him, it …
Gauge charts in SQL or How to produce the world's ugliest speedometers
I may be at JavaOne 2007, the important work still has to go on. Hence the latest in a series of SQL powered charts and graphs: the Gauge or …
JavaOne 2007 – Oracle announces Rich Components (JSF) donation to Apache MyFaces
Following the donation of its ADF Faces JSF library to the open source community as Apache MyFaces Trinidad, late 2005, Oracle today announced that it will donate all the …
JDeveloper 11g – Model based (ViewObject) List of Values and their end-to-end benefit in the web tier
May 9, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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In JDeveloper 11g, as another example of declarative productivity, we can add a List of Values definition to an attribute in a ViewObject, indicating that typically that attribute whenever …
JDeveloper 11g and the future of ADF Business Components
May 9, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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With the Technical Preview of JDeveloper 11g out now for JavaOne 2007, we can take a closer look at several areas in the tool and see where they are …
Report from JavaOne 2007 – The future of the Java Technology Web Tier
While still early days, and with the expert groups still having to do their job, this session discussed some of the likely advances for the Java Technology for the …
Quite a feat: an entertaining talk on SDO and SCA; Kudo’s to Doug Tidwell speaking at JavaOne 2007
One of my personal objectives for this JavaOne conference is to get a clear – of if that is too ambitious at least a clearer – view of what …
JDeveloper 11g preview
The (Oracle) Java community is currently buzzing because the first JDeveloper 11g preview is available for download at the OTN JDeveloper 11g page. I’ll give you a short introduction …
Oracle 11g Technology Previews are available for download
May 9, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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We knew it was coming, now we talk about it. From Olaf’s Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/olaf/2007/05/08#a84 JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview Software Online Demos Tutorials Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) 11g Technology …
JavaOne 2007: Some cool things to investigate as soon as possible
The first day of JavaOne is continuing. It seems to reach out in many different directions, from SOA to Groovy, from mobile devies to JEE Application Servers. It is …
JDeveloper 11g – making thousands of developers productive – and their applications visually attractive
May 8, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Here is your challenge: we have many thousands of developers, with many different technical backgrounds. Do not expect all our developers to be advanced Java programmers. They will be …
Live from the opening session of JavaOne 2007
Note: this is a live blog that will be updated regularly over the next two hours. I am writing it as we are in Moscone South Conference Hall for …
Creating a Gantt-chart in SQL
There are many things that can help make this world a better place. A pure SQL-based Gantt-chart is not one of them. However, that is exactly what this article …
JavaOne 2007 – This year's magic numbers
Sunday morning, Schiphol Airport. It is almost time to depart for San Francisco, for this year’s JavaOne conference. Apparently the weather is great in SFO, so it is going …
Brilliant use of XML in the relational database
A great example of how one could use the Oracle XMLDB functionality in a unforeseen way in your relational world, is being demonstrated by Laurent Schneider in his article …
Year 2000 problems…
Last year our firm (AMIS) celebrated its 15th anniversary. This year Oracle celebrates its 30th year of its existence. In that reflective light, I remembered a nice “Easter egg” …
Instant field conversion – Rapid Data entry and SMS Speak converter – using ADF Faces PPR with Customer JSF Converters
While preparing for my paper Getting the most AJAX out of ADF Faces – Developing really rich web applications for the upcoming ODTUG 2007 Kaleidoscope conference, I dabbled a …
New book shipment to further build our library
This week we added more than 50 books to our ever expanding library of books on Design Patterns, Oracle Database Administration, Script Languages, Agile Development, Core Java, SOA, Security …
Oracle BI Suite seminar Utrecht
Last Wednesday I visited the Oracle BI seminar in Utrecht. Underneath you find a brief description of the highlights. First of all Wouter van der Brugghen presented the Oracle BI …
SAN, SUN and SOA, better run and hide – Likes and dislikes of Anjo Kolk – report of an inspiring AMIS Query on Performance
Last night, we hosted an inspiring and thought provoking AMIS Query, with some 70 developers, project managers and primarily DBAs. The presentator was well known performance expert ("I just …
Sjoerd Michels becomes our second Oracle Regional Director for Fusion Middleware
Oracle has informed him this week that the nomination for Sjoerd Michels, expertise manager for SOA & BI, for Oracle Regional Director Fusion Middleware has been accepted! Sjoerd hereby …