Category: Platform Technology
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 …
Bind parameters (:paramName) are typically used in the Where clause of SQL queries underlying ADF BC ViewObjects. However, there is no rule that they can only occur in the …
Implementing role based authorization, linked either to JAAS or your home grown authentication and authorization approach, is pretty simple using JHeadstart. All it takes is configuring the JhsAuthorizationProxy bean …
Some things are almost to tiny to blog about. Then again, if a blog can save you a lot of work and frustration then, even it is about something …
Like many others, we use Subversion as our preferred source control system (scm). Since a few months an official JDeveloper extension is available which makes our ADF development and …
It is not a novel experience for me to have an article published. That has happened before. However, today I saw the article on JDeveloper 10.1.3.1 that I have …
The templating mechanism of JHeadstart is a huge improvement over the previous versions. It is now quite easy to add your postgeneration changes to a velocity template and add …
The Tester for ADF BC is a very handy tool, to verify the correctness of the Business Components we have created. However, there are times when the Tester is …
I am currently working in Nouméa, New Caledonia (western part of the pacific) to setup an environment for the continuous integration of ADF Faces applications for a department of …
Implementing JAAS based security – or at least Authentication and (role based) Authorization – in JSF applications is a joint responsibility of the Application and the Application Server. The …
One fairly common remark on ADF Faces applications is their Look and Feel. The default look and feel is the Oracle BLAF, and either you love it or you …
