Category: Oracle WebLogic Server

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 :

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. …

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 …

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: …

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! …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …