Category: Platform Technology
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 …
JHeadstart is capable of generating so called advanced search forms. These allow the end user of the ADF application created using JHeadstart to enter various search criteria on which …
The ADF Faces library contains many JSF components. One of the most common used components is the af:inputText. In the JHeadstart it is the default type for most items. …
JHeadstart is a great tool for generating ADF Faces applications. One of the main new features (since 10.1.3) is the templating mechanism. Almost everything is generated with velocity templates …
JHeadstart is one of the tools we use quite successfully here at AMIS. We have written on this blog about JHeadstart and ways to extend, enhance and optimally benefit …
In one of the previous blog-articles a colleague of mine described how to start an OC4J-container on the command line. Which was and is correct, but… I’m a database …
A rather interesting session took place last week during OOW 2006, away from the crowds in a small meeting room in the Mariott hotel. The group that assembled there …
I just came out of – well actually, as I am writing this down I am still in it – a very good session on the Oracle JDBC drivers …
Yesterday (Monday) was the Keynote speech by Thomas Kurian, Oracle VP, that started the Oracle Develop event. In what can be described as a crisp, well organized presentation, Kurian …
One of the themes regularly stressed during the Oracle Develop event (part of Oracle Open World 2006) is Oracle’s key interest in and support for the Spring Framework. Oracle …
Last night we had the annual Oracle ACEs dinner at a very nice San Francisco restaurant. The food and wine were excellent, but the company even more inspiring. I …
I do not like the P word. Oracle Portal has never quite enthralled me like some or rather many other products from Big Red have. But I think I …
Process instances in the Oracle BPEL PM can be initiated in a number of ways. Some are passive – the BPEL engine receives a call and as a result …
The 10.1.3.1.0 release of JDeveloper just hit OTN. You can download it at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/index.html. The most spectacular changes in this releases are the built in support for the SOA …
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 has a fairly advanced – Eclipse like – mechanism for installing and upgrading plugins or extensions as they are called in JDeveloper lingo. Recently, I decided …
While preparing an article for JDJ as well as a presentation for Oracle Open World next week, I finally got round to finding a proper solution for a challenge …
Internationalization, multi-linguality, NLS support for JSF applications – or any Java powered application for that matter – is an important topic. And Resource Bundles are the way to deal …
I am currently involved in the migration of a pretty substantial application, developed with Oracle Designer’s Web Server Generator, to the Oracle ADF technology stack, using JHeadstart. You know …
I have just found the JHeadstart 10..1.3 Evaluation Copy on OTN. See JHeadstart’s homepage: http://www.oracle.com/technology/consulting/9iServices/JHeadstart.html. This trial software is fully functional and will function for an unlimited period of …
One of the big new things in JHeadstart 10.1.3 for ADF Faces undoubtedly is the very rich support for custom templates. We can use custom templates to extend, complement …
Many pages developed with ADF Faces will contain items that represent hyperlinks. The user can enter a URL in such items and submit the value. However, the contents of …
Steve Muench has published the 10.1.3 version of his JHeadstart tutorial at: Building Enterprise JSF Applications with Oracle JHeadstart for ADF (10.1.3) – A step-by-step, end-to-end tutorial on how …
JHeadstart 10.1.3 has several new features, a whole new architecture and support for ADF Faces. One of the most interesting new concepts is the notion of the Custom Templates, …
One of the promises of Java Server Faces is the ability for developers to use a rich mix of UI Components from different libraries and vendors. You may pick …
The Rich UI components (see ADF Faces Rich Client Components – Marrying JSF and AJAX together) that the ADF Faces library will contain with the JDeveloper 11g release – …
Yesterday I was discussing the migration of a Web PL/SQL based application to the Oracle ADF Technology Stack, most particularly to Java Server Faces. One interesting feature the customer …
Last week we hosted the umpthieth AMIS Query – our series of Technical Seminars on Oracle and Java related subjects – with over 60 visitors. We always try to …
What I mean with a meta data driven user interface is an application whose appearance and behavior is managed by a special set of data that is stored in …
