Category: Oracle
Last week, release 4.0 of JUnit was published. You may have seen some of the announcements. The JUnit homepage (http://www.junit.org/index.htm)does not reflect this fact at the time of writing, …
For one of our Java projects, I wanted to help a colleague getting started with unit testing. Due to high time pressure, there was a real risk that – …
Recently, IBM released two articles about AJAX on their website, called Mastering AJAX, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax and Mastering AJAX, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and …
One of my colleagues needed a simple report on the Entities with their Attributes as defined in an Oracle Designer Repository. Having spent far too much time in the …
For me it was a new phenomenon: JavaBlackBelt (http://javablackbelt.com/jbb/). A site where you take exams in several different Java related categories, such as J2SE, Ant, OO, JasperReports, Spring, XML, …
It becomes stranger and stranger. After bying the open source company InnoBase, Timesten, and others, Oracle now also bought SleepyCat. Oracle also released its own freeware in the form …
Yesterday we had another of our AMIS Query sessions – for technical specialists from AMIS, our business relations and even our collpetitors in the Dutch marketplace. Some 30 people …
A while ago on the SQL and PL/SQL forum on Oracle Technology Network someone asked a question regarding a pivot query. Because the question was justed posted I was …
Over the past few weeks, several articles about EJB3.0 have been published on our weblog. On Thursday, 10 Februari 2006, the author of those articles, Lucas Jellema, presented a …
EJB 3.0 Persistence is a topic that is high on our list. We have written a substantial number of blog articles on it after doing quite some research as …
About a year ago I designed and developed a “JDAPI-toolbox” while migrating a medium sized (ca. 600 modules) Oracle Forms 6i application to webforms 10g for a customer in …
This article describes a quick route to starting out with the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API from the Eclipse 3.1 IDE. In a subsequent article, I will discuss …
On Saturday I was shocked to read the announcement in the newspaper of the death of Lex de Haan. Even though, after the earlier reports on his physical condition, …
Steven Feuerstein and his team bring the world a new gift: Qute – the Quick Unit Test Engine. Steven says: “Qute is the Quick Unit Test Engine. It is …
This is the fourth installment in a series of four on the concept of Post Loading Resources into an HTML document after the document itself has been loaded. Using …
Finally it’s there! Netbeans 5.0 has been released. Including: Project Matisse; completely redesigned support for CVS; support for WebLogic 9, JBoss 4 and Sun Application Server; Struts and Java …
Oracle 10g Cluster Ready Services enables databases to use a Virtual IP address to configure the listener on. This feature is to assure that oracle clients quickly failover when …
AJAX opens up a lot of possibilities – that in truth by and large already existed pre-AJAX. In a series of articles, I am discussing the concept of post …
This article discusses a generic method for Post Loading Resources in HTML pages. What do I mean by that? Just as your browser will fire additional requests, to potentially …
This article came about as a result of the questions asked by Victor Bax with regard to an earlier post: Oracle Designer – Script for verifying the privileges assigned …
SOA, WebService and web service, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL and WSIF, Axis, SOAP, JAVA-RPC etc. etc. If Google has not found this blog by now… Seriously, these are all hot …
Last week, Sun and Oracle announced a 20+ year period of more intense cooperation. According to this link http://www.sun.com/2006-0111/feature/index.html Sun and Oracle will forcus on these three main areas: …
Service Oriented Architecture is the Architecture Design Pattern of today. Using standard WebService interfaces for functionality published by legacy applications to external consumers, we can easily reuse such functionality …
While investigating the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API, I came under the impression that the specification does not cater for Stored Procedures. In general, there seem to be …
I wanted to generate an Excel file with data coming from an Oracle database. One of the best ways to do this is to generate an Microsoft Excel XML …
Just over a week after RC1, the NetBeans project team has released NetBeans 5.0RC2 today. Go and get it everyone!
Creating pretty graphics – or any meaningful graphics at all – in web applications is an important issue. Visual information as well as illustration makes applications more appealing and …
It seems to be awards day or so. On Syscon (Australia) I found the announcement of the JDJ Reader’s Awards. It is interesting, because of the fairly literate and …
Just noticed on The Server Side an announcement regarding the "Developer.com Product of the Year 2006 Winners". As you can see for yourself, JSF (Java Server Faces), Ant, Eclipse …
Generating master-detail relationships in Oracle ADF usually is done using two (or more) View Objects which are linked together via a View Link. In a stand-alone application, getting the …
Long expected, finally there: NetBEans 5.0 RC1 has been released. See http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/index.htmlfor more info on this fine IDE.
We have been using JIRA for our Incident Management the last six months or so, and one of the UI features in JIRA that suddenly struck me as being …
EJB QL or Enterprise Java Beans Query Language has been introduced in the EJB 2.0 Specification, back in 2001. For some reason, it never grew on me. I did …
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
It seems that Frappr is gaining a lot of momentum. A new Oracle bloggers group has just been started.
Another side of the software engineering coin is about the development process. The popularity of agile development is growing and therefore deserved the prominent attention at javapolis. Scott Ambler …
The proper way to start OC4J is sparsely documented by Oracle: To start OC4J in a standalone environment, issue the following command from the j2ee/home/ directory: java -jar …
In the wake of my last post – Getting started with Java Server Faces (JSF) using Apache MyFaces – in JDeveloper 10.1.3EA – I will continue my explorations of …
I just read Wilfred’s appeal to anyone interested in (free) Oracle Developer Days in The Netherlands on his OraTransplant Weblog: Free Oracle Java Technology Days in the Benelux. How …
Seen so much, heard so much, read so much: time to actually do a little with Apache MyFaces. I am using the blog article by Jonas Jacobi as my …