Category: Oracle WebLogic Server
With the advent of the Oracle 7 RDBMS – 1993 – a new era dawned. Many of the key database functions and facilities, such as (Enforced) Integrity Constraints, Stored …
Yesterday it was announded by JBoss that it signed an agreement to be acquired by Red Hat. See the announcement at www.jboss.org. After several months of rumours about a …
In what is to become a series of articles illustrating a full blown business case for a Conference Registration Processing process implemented using Oracle BPEL PM, this is the …
Using email as a decoupled integration mechanism for applications is a fairly crude and simplistic yet effective approach. Messaging infrastructures – MOM – were all the rage, and still …
This article is about a generic service that takes a simple HTML Form Post and turns it into an Email. It is not revolutionary – but useful nevertheless. Besides, …
In a previous article (AJAX – What’s the Buzz Part 1), we discussed the introduction to AJAX as a Design Pattern. We saw a simple demonstration leading up to …
Yesterday we had a workshop titled: Ajax, What’s the buzz? During this workshop, we discussed AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, notable examples of Ajax implementations, the repercussions Ajax …
The most provoking presentation I sat in on during the Database Systems 2006 conference was probably the one by Rick van der Lans, on 10 golden rules for SOA …
Today I attended – and presented at – the Database Systems 2006 conference – an annual Dutch conference on Database Architecture and Technology, Enterprise Integration and Service Oriented Architectures …
We at AMIS have a fairly long tradition when it comes to having developers attend the annual ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group) conference. My first conference – while …
For one of our current Java development efforts – a Web application based on JSP, Struts, Oracle ADF technologies – we had to develop functionality to transforms HTML documents …
After quite a few encounters with .NET in recent years, primarily up against Java/J2EE technology – and some with VB before the release of .NET in 2002 – yesterday …
In the not too distant past, I have had to implement solutions for generating PDF documents, based on dynamic data and a document template to be defined by the …
One of the new features in Java 5 that clearly stands out is called: Annotations (JSR-175). Through Annotations, we can add metadata to our Java sources, not just as …
I am happy to see that a subversion extension is available for JDeveloper (10.1.3). Although it is still an early access version, it seems to work properly. Currently it …
J2EE contains a plethora of API definitions. From the Servlet API to the EJB API, from JMX to JMS. One of the APIs that I have had very little …
In a previous article, Introduction to Blackbox testing of Web Applications using Selenium I have introduced Selenium, a framework for Web Application testing – any HTML/JavaScript Web Application, regardless …
After my visit tot JavaPolis, in December 2005, I wrote a brief article on Selenium, a tool for testing Web Applications. For one of our internal Knowledge Center Sessions …
While I was reviewing today’s statistics of our weblog, I noticed a referrer in our top 10 that had guided 24 readers to one of our articles. I …
This article is the sequel to EJB 3.0 Persistence – Introducing EJBQL 3.0, an introduction to EJB QL from an historical, strategic and functional perspective. In this post I …
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 – …
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, …
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 …
Recently I wrote an article about setting up Jakarta Slide and using the Slide client to connect to an Exchange WebDAV store. The article is in Dutch, but if …
This article Oracle’s Open-Source Shopping Spree in Business Week Online suggests that Oracle is involved in serious discussions with JBoss, Zend and SleepyCat about a take over – for …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
While working on Rich HTML clients that could retrieve information from various sources on different web-servers using multiple AJAX requests, I came across the AJAXSLT project from Google Code. …
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 3.0 Persistence is hot and coming. The fact that persistence is handled the same way, in and outside the EJB container, for Web Applications, Java Client applications and …
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 …
