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 …
Category: Oracle WebLogic Server
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Using the Sun Java BluePrints AJAX JSF Components in your own JSF Web Application
One of quite a few open source JSF libraries available to JSF Web Application developers is the Sun Java Blueprints AJAX JSF Components. This set of AJAX-powererd JSF components …
The search for the Easter portlet – hiding portlets in ADF Faces Web Applications using WebCenter Framework
April 6, 2007
Oracle, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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Yesterday I did a presentation on Oracle WebCenter and the concept of UI-SOA. Part of the talk were a great number of quite complex demonstrations, to illustrate the key …
How to trace a java application through a connection pool using DBMS_MONITOR
April 4, 2007
Database, DBA Oracle, Development Tools, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Web/Java
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Much has been written on how to trace database sessions through a java application in all sort of different techniques. Since Oracle 10g a new technique is added to …
Consuming a JSR-168 Calculator Portlet in a Java Server Faces application using Oracle WebCenter
April 2, 2007
IT, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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Oracle WebCenter allows JSF (including ADF Faces) applications to consume Portlets. That means that our own application can pretend to be a portal too. Anywhere in the JSF page, …
Exporting to Excel from any ADF Table
March 26, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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No matter how fancy the application you develop, no matter how sophisticated the user interfaces: end users will always clamor for Excel. All data eventually will end up in …
Using a generic JHeadstart Custom Template to support the inputTextHyperlink display type
March 22, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Being able to generate our ADF Web Applications is a fine thing. JHeadstart can really get us a long way with our application. However, in most situations, JHeadstart will …
Demonstrating some new JHeadstart 10.1.3.1 Features
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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A few days ago, the Oracle JHeadstart team released the 10.1.3.1 release. It was announced as ‘a point release’ but it turns out to offer a substantial chunk of …
New release (10.1.3.1) of JHeadstart has been published – many, many new features
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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A point release for JHeadstart has been made available by the Oracle JHeadstart team. For a point release, it has a surprisingly long list of new features. Among the …
How ADF Faces can do Tiles or SiteMesh like Push-Style templating using Regions with Dynamic Attributes
March 11, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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JSF has in built in facility for templating, apart from the subview component. And the Subview does not give us the kind of push-style templating that has us define …
Running Webforms without Oracle JInitiator
February 21, 2007
AMIS, IT, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Software Development, Software Engineering
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A few weeks ago one of my customers told me that he lost a sales opportunity because the customer who he was trying to sell his software too had …
The Java Server Faces generic "garble button" – how to become wildly popular again…
Somewhat akin to the dbms_advanced_rewrite package application I discussed some time ago, I have now another piece of functionality that will make you once again the light of the …
Invoking BPEL Worklist API from Remote Server with Java
Recently, I was working on an Forms application that required a Form to retrieve and complete a Human Workflow task from the worklist of a BPEL 10.1.3 server (also …
Oracle WebCenter Suite 10g (10.1.3.2.0) available for download too
February 1, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Yesterday we received the 10.1.3.2 release of JDeveloper, with the WebCenter design time; today we are presented with the WebServer Suite (Server) as well. Download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/101310.html :
How to refer to an Attribute in the Currently Selected Table row in an ADF Faces page – implementing a Generic Row Reader
January 31, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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A very small article on a very trivial issue. I have a page with a Master-Detail construction with a (master) Table of Departments and a (detail) Table of Employees. …
Creating an ADF URL Service DataControl for binding a File or Servlet/JSP service and using it in an ADF Faces Web Application
January 31, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Looking through the list of new features for JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 yesterday I suddenly noticed a feature that was not new at all, but that had so far escaped my …
Using the new JSF Components ShowDetailFrame and PanelCustomizable for structuring the User Interface in JDeveloper 10.1.3.2
January 31, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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One of the interesting new features that come along with WebCenter in JDeveloper 10.1.3.2, but hopefully are not necessarily part of WebCenter (licence) is the set of Customizable Components: …
JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 & WebCenter – first impressions and first tip
January 31, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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It was hard to miss yesterday as weblogs around the world – just like telex machines in the old days – started ticking and buzzing: JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 is released! …
ADF Flex Fields or ADF User Extensibility or "The End User driving the Application" or "ADF goes APEX" or… (sneak preview)
January 30, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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One picture speaks more than a thousand words (a pity for someone as verbally skilled and graphically challenged as myself). However, for once, I will try to let the …
(dirty little) Trick for calling methods with multiple input parameters from JSF EL Expressions
January 27, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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I am not sure yet whether I have been really clever or am suffering from a twisted mind. In this article I present a grantedly farfetched approach for invoking …
Getting started with the ICEfaces (1.5.2) library of rich AJAX JSF components in JDeveloper 10.1.3.x
January 19, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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November 2006 saw the announcement by ICEsoft that their ICEfaces library of JSF components was being released under an open source license. This basically means that a lot of …
Example of using the ADF Faces ChooseColor component with a SelectInputColor for picking a color
January 10, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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One of the components in the ADF Faces library you may not make use of on a daily base is the . In this article, I will give you …
Project Experience with Acegi Security, Spring MVC and Oracle MapViewer
For a customer with an interesting business we had to build a web application that has a RIA front end, displays data on maps, authenticates thru a web service …
Create a WebApplication secured with custom JAAS Database LoginModule & Deploy on JDeveloper 10.1.3 Embedded OC4J 10.1.3.1, Stand Alone OC4J and OPMN Managed OC4J (10g AS)
January 2, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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For one of the projects I was recently involved in, we had to implement JAAS based authentication & authorization for our JSF Web Application, and we wanted to base …
Dynamic switch between radiobuttons and dropdownlist – create a new custom JSF component
January 1, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In keeping with a short tradition, today is another day during my Christmas break on which I had some time to dabble in Java Server Faces and particularly the …
How to create a New Custom JSF Component that randomly displays select items in SelectOne… and SelectMany components
December 30, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Selection components, such as Radio Buttons. Dropdown-lists, Lists, Shuttles and Check Boxes, are key elements of many a web page. Java Server Faces has a pretty wide range of …
ADF BC – Fun with Bind Parameters Part Four – Choosing between various Pre-Canned Queries by leveraging the View Link bind-parameter
December 29, 2006
IT, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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In this article on bind parameter usage in ADF Business Components, we will discuss a feature that I recently found out about and that I think offers a lot …
Deploying Custom JSF Components – and using them in new JSF Applications
December 29, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In several previous posts – and some articles yet to be published – I discuss the development of new JSF Components. Of course the true potential of such components …
Implementing Client Side Validation for Custom Validators in ADF Faces
December 28, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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The SUN Reference Implementation of Java Server Faces has a limited number of Validators. The framework has plenty support for creation and integration of custom validators. It does not …
How to create a custom JSF Validator – The Greater Than Validator to enforce one component's value being larger than some other's
December 28, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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One of the major benefits of Java Server Faces (JSF) in comparison to other View frameworks is its easy extensibility. UI Components can be incorporated, custom converters and page-life-cycles …
Fun with ADF BC Bind Parameters – Part Three: Support for generic bind-parameters in ADF Business Components
December 26, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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It can easily be the case that in your ADF BC application many ViewObjects make use of the same bind-parameters, for example a bind parameter referring to the current …
ADF BC and Faces: Fun with Bind Parameters Part Two – Locale specific database querying from the ViewObjects
December 24, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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In this article I would like to demonstrate another unexpected usage of ADF BC bind-parameters. In a previous entry I argued that bind parameters are typically seen as good …