Programmatically Querying the status of BPEL process-instances
During a recent presentation I did on the NL-JUG J-Spring Conference (the Dutch Java User Group) on the interaction between Oracle BPEL PM and Java applications, I got asked …
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Configuring a (Oracle) datasource on Glassfish
With Java EE 5 being final, application servers need to be upgraded to support features like EJB 3.0. In some cases, loading the Java EE 5 jars may be …
The Technology Stack for Oracle Applications Release 12
On Pankaj Chandiramani’s Blog we can find a lot of information with regard to the technology Oracle will build the Release 12 edition of the E-Business Suite on. Pankaj …
Invoking HTTP Services from Oracle BPEL PM – SOA enabling PHP, Servlets, RSS,…
We live in a service oriented world. Or we will do so in the very near future. Services are all around us. And mind you: services not just as …
No WinFS! – ZFS rules? – others…
Today I read a remarkable statement in the Dutch Automatiserings Gids - they claim that Windows WinFS will not only not be embedded in Windows Vista but also will …
Sleeping with the enemy: .Net at the 2006 ODTUG conference
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From June 17th until June 21st I attended the ODTUG conference in Washington DC. I focused mainly on .Net and Apex. In Holland quite a few customers are moving …
Demo application advanced Forms features (ODTUG 2006 version)
Demo application advanced Forms features (ODTUG 2006 version) Last June, I held a presentation at the ODTUG conference in Washington DC “Oracle Forms: Productivity with new choicesâ€. During this …
Mastering XML DB – Unexpected side effect of updateXML
When trying to create anonymous data, I encountered an unexpected side effect of the updateXML statement while updating XML documents in an Oracle 10gR2 (10.2.0.1.0) EE database. I got …
Oracle db feature matrix
Interested in the features and options of the different editions (standard, express and enterprise) of the Oracle database? This document lists them all in a handy matrix format.
ODTUG 2006 Conference Handouts/Presentations available
June 30, 2006
Data Warehousing & BI, Database, Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL
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Last night, the ODTUG 2006 Conference Committee announced that all handouts and presentations from this year’s (well, in fact that is last week’s) conference are available for download from …
An Oracle10g PL/SQL implementation of the AWK split() built-in
With the regular expression functionality in Orcale database 10g some handy build-ins of the UNIX pattern matching language AWK are easily implemented. I myself use AWK split() function quite often in AWK …
Oracle Data Mining – from SQL and PL/SQL
During one of the sessions on last week’s ODTUG 2006 conference, I saw a very interesting demo by Keith Laker. He discussed the problem of having several dozens of …
Ohhh, thy mighty Oracle…
Ohhh, thy mighty Oracle. I had completly forgotten about him and then we where re-united. We met years and years and years ago…and I coud always ask him …
ADF security (ODTUG 2006)
Being a major important technology for Oracle, many presentations on this year’s ODTUG conference covered ADF. The showcase, the demonstration of the forthcoming AJAX enabled ADF Faces, has been …
Unittesting PL/SQL (ODTUG 2006)
For me, one of the highlights of this year’s ODTUG conference was the presentation of Steven Feuerstein about PL/SQL unittesting, “Six simple steps to unit testing happiness“. While unittesting …
Mogens Norgaard: No Cary, we're still not tuning the right stuff. (ODTUG 2006 )
Right after the Oracle Quiz Lucas and I presented last week on ODTUG, I went to Mogens Norgaard’s presentation. Here is a short report from that session, you may …
Oracle Business Intelligence – news and strategy (from ODTUG 2006)
Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing, ETL, OLAP, Data Mining, Management Information, Dashboards etc. were among the most frequently heard terms at this conference. Much more so than on previous occasions …
Analytic Functions and the Oracle Data Cartridge
Last week at the ODTUG conference, I did a presentation on Analytic Functions. Later on someone came up to me and asked me if there is also a Median-function …
Implementing an FTP server in PL/SQL
The problem: I recently had to resolve a problem at a client’s site where an automated database provisioning process was regularly failing due to LAN outages. Under normal circumstances, …
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part II : some basic Writer operations
OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. Despite several small issues, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is capable of opening, modifying and saving Microsoft Office …
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part I : connecting to OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. Despite several small issues, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is capable of opening, modifying and saving Microsoft Office …
ADF Faces Rich Client Components – Marrying JSF and AJAX together
AJAX allows for Rich Client Applications on top of standard HTML based Internet technologies. Programming AJAX can be messy and complex. JavaScript libraries like DOJO and BackBase have improved …
How PL/SQL can participate in a Service Oriented Architecture
Today was another AMIS day at ODTUG 2006. After yesterday’s three presentations, today we have done another three. Aino kicked off at 8.30 AM with his presentation on How …
Oracle Forms 11g – under construction
Another message from ODTUG 2006. The main development tools for most of the participants on this conference is Oracle Forms. Today was an important session, by Grant Ronald (Principal …
Great Presentation on migrating Oracle Forms to ADF Faces at ODTUG 2006
The title of this article is hugely misleading. Or somewhat at least. The presentation has to take place yet. And it is my own – so how great can …
The minimum number of statements required for Inserting Records from Two Source Tables into Four Target Tables – Introducing Multi Table Insert
It's Showtime! Today at ODTUG 2006, Alex and I are presenting our Oracle Quiz on SQL and PL/SQL – the water is still burning. We will present our audience …
Very decent Keynote Speech at ODTUG 2006
In a very multi-cultural – representatives from France, Italy, the UK and Austria – and rather strong display, Oracle opened the ODTUG 2006 conference formally with the keynote address. …
ODTUG 2006 – First Report from Washington
This year’s ODTUG 2006 Kaleidoscope conference went underway today in Washington DC. A familiar crowd has gathered in a very pleasant venue where around 1.30 PM we kicked off …
Pivot using BPEL
Purpose During the past weeks my collegues at Amis (Anton and Lucas) are pivotting using SQL and PL/SQL, so why not also do some pivotting in BPEL, just for …
Integration between Java and Oracle BPEL PM – What every Java developer should know about BPEL
Today, I will be presenting and most of all demonstrating, on Oracle BPEL PM and Java for the Dutch Java User Group’s Spring Conference (NL-JUG J-Spring 2006): My abstract …
ADF Faces for MyFaces is now called Trinidad
June 12, 2006
Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Earlier this year Oracle donated their JSF UI components from ADF Faces to the Apache Software Foundation. Since ADF is more than a set of UI components it was …
Oracle BPEL PM – Invoking a (remote) BPEL Service from Java using RMI
Next Thursday, June 15th, I will present on the Dutch Java User Group Conference, on the integration between Java on the one hand and BPEL (specifically Oracle BPEL PM) …
Building a Route Planner with Oracle SQL – Finding the quickest route in a graph
Routeplanners have always been somewhat magical in my eyes. Finding the quickest route from A to B in a graph of thousands of points and connections. I have tried …
Installing Oracle XE under Debian/(K)Ubuntu is easier than Windows
Yesterday I installed Oracle XE at my Ubuntu Linux server at home. I wanted to do this for a long time but was a bit scared because installing non …
Sorting PL/SQL Collections, the quite simple way (part two: Have the SQL Engine do the heavy lifting)
Yesterday I published an article on this blog describing an approach to sorting the elements in PL/SQL Collections:Sorting PL/SQL Collections, the hard way, the intermediate way and the quite …
Sorting PL/SQL Collections, the hard way, the intermediate way and the quite simple way (part one)
Bubble Sort, Quick Sort, Insertion Sort, Shuttle Sort… When time is short, these are not the easiest ways of implementing sort operations on your PL/SQL Collections. In this brief …
Why are there so few resuable PL/SQL components – Discussion triggered by presentation on PL/SQL Design Patterns
While the Java – and even the .NET, Ruby, Perl, Python, PHP – arena is teeming with open source projects and reusable components, the PL/SQL scene is quiet. Why …
The (AJA)X Files – On the built-in AJAX facilities of ADF Faces for zero-code Rich User Experience
Any article discussing AJAX is currently an instant hit. Articles talking about JSF (Java Server Faces) are also pretty hot. So the combination must drive the number of reads …
IN or EXIST or doesn’t it matter
In my previous post about package constants I mentioned the application I am working on right now. They gave me the task to speed up the application since performance …
Dynamic SQL Pivoting – Stealing Anton’s Thunder
I have a colleague who has a stroke of genius. He can create things in SQL and PL/SQL that I find very hard to fathom, let alone could have …