BI Beans and Export to Excel
BI Beans only provides export to CSV to be imported into Excel, at least up to the 9.0.4 release: News from the BI Beans product team: In the 9.0.5 …
Category: Oracle WebLogic Server
Organization of BC4J – Domain (EO) and Business (VO) package
A topic that seems to come up again and again is the issue of reusing BC4J packages across applications and projects. And along the same lines structuring the BC4J …
JHeadstart Recipe for Display Only Boilerplate List of Value base items (release 9.0.5.x)
During this week’s JHeadstart workshop it turned out that our recipe for Display Only LOV fields did not support JHeadstart 10g (release 9.0.5.x). I have changed the recipe to …
Spacer for JHeadstart Generation
During the JHeadstart workshop I am teaching this week there as a question: How can I – in a two-column layout – force two adjacent fields to be positioned …
HttpUnit 1.6 Released
From this thread on The Server Side: HttpUnit 1.6 released. HttpUnit 1.6, the first new production release in over a year, is now available. HttpUnit emulates the relevant portions …
A single POJO persistence model to replace JDO and take over much of EJB??
Java and persistence are hot. And continue to be hot. If I read things correctly, Sun – through Linda DeMichiel and Craig Russell Specification Leads, JSR-220 and JSR-243 – …
Java 5.0 (Tiger) – MetaData and Annotations – Introduction and thoughts on application
I have given the meta-data features in the J2SE 5.0 Tiger Release some more thought. Reading – in this order – through the following articles, I rather quickly had …
Java 1.5 == 5.0 ==Tiger is loose (Sun releases J2SE 5.0)
All the news etc. starts here: J2SE 5.0 Home For new features see here (new features). and here (release notes). Then there is the article: Java 5.0 in a …
Struts, JDBC and Data Guard – Oracle Open World Amsterdam – Friday 24th September – Impressions
In this post I will tell you about some of the sessions notably on Struts support in JDeveloper, Java/JDBC support with Oracle 10g and the Data Guard option of …
Eating your own dogfood – use of Oracle Development tools within the Oracle Applications development group
During the Amsterdam stage of the Oracle Open World Tour, I had a great opportunity to interview John Wookey Senior Vice President, Applications Development at Oracle Corporation. John is …
ADF documentation
In between sessions on Oracle Open World I visited the demogrounds. In one of the booths Duncan Mills was demonstrating Oracles ADF framework in JDeveloper 10g. IMHO the documentation …
BPEL is great and so is Oracle BPEL
Probably many of you have at least a vague notion of what BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is all about. Now, thanks to a very good presentation by Oracle’s …
Struts + XDoclet (webdoclet) and integration with Eclipse
XDoclet is a tool that proclaims the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle: you code everything in one file once, as opposed to the practice of modern software development, where …
New Oracle JDBC driver
After getting a weird NullPointerException using Transaction.commit() in Hibernate during an insert (eventually calling PreparedStatement.clearParameters() which was the source of the exception), it turned out that the JDBC driver …
Expert Session on Persistency Framework: Toplink
Yesterday we had an excellent meeting on Java persistency frameworks, in particular Toplink. Oracle Consultant and Java expert Peter Ebell presented on his experiences with Toplink on a very …
Great document on Java/J2EE Guidelines
I found a very interesting document (300 pages) with standards on Java/J2EE guidelines, Technical Paper: Java – J2EE Conventions and Guidelines Release 1.0.2 Stephan Janssen The JCS Team (2004). …
Struts 1.2.1 and ADF
For those who can not wait to try the Struts 1.2.1 beta version in combination with ADF in JDeveloper10g, Duncan Mills has posted a “how to” on OTN. click …
Sneak preview of ADF JHeadstart
Yesterday we (Hans, Harm, Rob, Wiene and myself) had a session with the Oracle JHeadstart team (Steven and Peter) where they demonstrated the upcoming ADF JHeadstart release. We also …
Enhancements for JHeadstart Generator/Consolidation of best practices
This post describes a list of JHeadstart Application Generator enhancements and also provides a progress report on the implementation of the features mentioned
Research into Java Development standards
Yesterday I started research into the current state of affairs with regard to coding standards for J2EE development. We are looking for an up to date set of low …