Introduction to ASP.NET, ADO.NET – dead ringer for Oracle ADF?
After quite a few encounters with .NET in recent years, primarily up against Java/J2EE technology – and some with VB before the release of .NET in 2002 – yesterday …
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Converting Word documents to XSL-FO (and onwards to PDF)
In the not too distant past, I have had to implement solutions for generating PDF documents, based on dynamic data and a document template to be defined by the …
Java 5 Annotations – Creating your own Annotation Type
One of the new features in Java 5 that clearly stands out is called: Annotations (JSR-175). Through Annotations, we can add metadata to our Java sources, not just as …
JDeveloper and Subversion
I am happy to see that a subversion extension is available for JDeveloper (10.1.3). Although it is still an early access version, it seems to work properly. Currently it …
Some musings on JCA (Java Connector Architecture)
J2EE contains a plethora of API definitions. From the Servlet API to the EJB API, from JMX to JMS. One of the APIs that I have had very little …
Selenium IDE – plugin for FireFox – easy black box web application testing
March 1, 2006
Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In a previous article, Introduction to Blackbox testing of Web Applications using Selenium I have introduced Selenium, a framework for Web Application testing – any HTML/JavaScript Web Application, regardless …
Introduction to Blackbox testing of Web Applications using Selenium
February 24, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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After my visit tot JavaPolis, in December 2005, I wrote a brief article on Selenium, a tool for testing Web Applications. For one of our internal Knowledge Center Sessions …
How we provide part of the Birkbeck University of London Curriculum – Component-Based Software Development on EJB 3.0
While I was reviewing today’s statistics of our weblog, I noticed a referrer in our top 10 that had guided 24 readers to one of our articles. I …
Getting started with the EJB 3.0 Query Language (EJBQL 3.0) using GlassFish reference implementation
This article is the sequel to EJB 3.0 Persistence – Introducing EJBQL 3.0, an introduction to EJB QL from an historical, strategic and functional perspective. In this post I …
JUnit 4.0 released – Annotations based TestCase definitions
Last week, release 4.0 of JUnit was published. You may have seen some of the announcements. The JUnit homepage (http://www.junit.org/index.htm)does not reflect this fact at the time of writing, …
Getting started with Unit Testing of JDBC based DAOs with the Spring Framework (introducing DBUnit)
For one of our Java projects, I wanted to help a colleague getting started with unit testing. Due to high time pressure, there was a real risk that – …
Honing your skills on JavaBlackBelt – free quizes, exams and black belts
For me it was a new phenomenon: JavaBlackBelt (http://javablackbelt.com/jbb/). A site where you take exams in several different Java related categories, such as J2SE, Ant, OO, JasperReports, Spring, XML, …
AMIS Query on Oracle Enterprise Service Bus, Oracle WebServices Manager, SOA & BPEL. …and not about JBoss
Yesterday we had another of our AMIS Query sessions – for technical specialists from AMIS, our business relations and even our collpetitors in the Dutch marketplace. Some 30 people …
Article about connecting Jakarta Slide to Exchange
Recently I wrote an article about setting up Jakarta Slide and using the Slide client to connect to an Exchange WebDAV store. The article is in Dutch, but if …
Is Oracle buying JBoss? Or Zend PHP? Or SleepyCat? Or all of them?
This article Oracle’s Open-Source Shopping Spree in Business Week Online suggests that Oracle is involved in serious discussions with JBoss, Zend and SleepyCat about a take over – for …
Getting started with the Dali plugin for Eclipse supporting EJB 3.0 Persistence
EJB 3.0 Persistence is a topic that is high on our list. We have written a substantial number of blog articles on it after doing quite some research as …
Starting with EJB 3.0 Persistence in Eclipse 3.1 using the GlassFish Reference Implementation
This article describes a quick route to starting out with the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API from the Eclipse 3.1 IDE. In a subsequent article, I will discuss …
HTML Post Loading and Processing Resources using AJAX – Part 4: defining a refresh interval, client side XSLT transformations and RSS processing
This is the fourth installment in a series of four on the concept of Post Loading Resources into an HTML document after the document itself has been loaded. Using …
HTML Post Loading and Processing Resources using AJAX – Part 3: multiple, dependent resources and custom processing
AJAX opens up a lot of possibilities – that in truth by and large already existed pre-AJAX. In a series of articles, I am discussing the concept of post …
Ajax-based Post Loading of resources in HTML pages – for reuse of resources and fast user feedback
This article discusses a generic method for Post Loading Resources in HTML pages. What do I mean by that? Just as your browser will fire additional requests, to potentially …
First Steps with Apache WSIF – Calling out to WSIF-alized SOAP WebServices and Java Classes
SOA, WebService and web service, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL and WSIF, Axis, SOAP, JAVA-RPC etc. etc. If Google has not found this blog by now… Seriously, these are all hot …
AMIS Query on WebService Security and Administration using the Oracle WebServices Manager – and sneak preview of the Enterprise Service Bus
Service Oriented Architecture is the Architecture Design Pattern of today. Using standard WebService interfaces for functionality published by legacy applications to external consumers, we can easily reuse such functionality …
Calling Stored Procedures using plain SQL – For when SQL is allowed but calls to Stored Procedures are not
While investigating the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API, I came under the impression that the specification does not cater for Stored Procedures. In general, there seem to be …
Drawing in JavaScript – new Canvas Tag – client side Chart building – IE implementation – SVG competitor
Creating pretty graphics – or any meaningful graphics at all – in web applications is an important issue. Visual information as well as illustration makes applications more appealing and …
Introducing AJAXSLT – library for client side, JavaScript, XSLT transformations (good for RIA and AJAX)
While working on Rich HTML clients that could retrieve information from various sources on different web-servers using multiple AJAX requests, I came across the AJAXSLT project from Google Code. …
HTML Select item with Icons in addition to just text labels – applying the CSS background-style to the HTML OPTION element
We have been using JIRA for our Incident Management the last six months or so, and one of the UI features in JIRA that suddenly struck me as being …
Introduction to EJB 3.0 Persistence – article in Dutch
EJB 3.0 Persistence is hot and coming. The fact that persistence is handled the same way, in and outside the EJB container, for Web Applications, Java Client applications and …
EJB 3.0 Persistence – Introducing EJBQL 3.0
EJB QL or Enterprise Java Beans Query Language has been introduced in the EJB 2.0 Specification, back in 2001. For some reason, it never grew on me. I did …
Getting started with ADF Faces in JDeveloper 10.1.3 – Using the Tree Component, comparison with MyFaces Tomahawk Tree2
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
JavaPolis 2005 – Agile Development
Another side of the software engineering coin is about the development process. The popularity of agile development is growing and therefore deserved the prominent attention at javapolis. Scott Ambler …
How to properly start OC4J on a production server.
January 5, 2006
Databases, Java, Oracle, Oracle E-Business Suite, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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The proper way to start OC4J is sparsely documented by Oracle: To start OC4J in a standalone environment, issue the following command from the j2ee/home/ directory: java -jar …
Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3
In the wake of my last post – Getting started with Java Server Faces (JSF) using Apache MyFaces – in JDeveloper 10.1.3EA – I will continue my explorations of …
Oracle Developer days in the BeNeLux – support for Wilfred’s action
I just read Wilfred’s appeal to anyone interested in (free) Oracle Developer Days in The Netherlands on his OraTransplant Weblog: Free Oracle Java Technology Days in the Benelux. How …
Getting started with Java Server Faces (JSF) using Apache MyFaces – in JDeveloper 10.1.3EA
Seen so much, heard so much, read so much: time to actually do a little with Apache MyFaces. I am using the blog article by Jonas Jacobi as my …
EJB 3.0 Persistence – using the @Version annotation for Optimistic Locking – in the GlassFish Reference Implementation
One of the annotations available to us when specifying the EJB 3.0 Persistence metadata for our Entities is the @Version annotation. The specification states: “The Version annotation specifies the …
EJB 3.0 Persistence – ManyToMany relations or the objectification of the intersection table
I have done a fair bit of Entity Relationship Modeling. It’s one of the things I probably like most about my job. And one of the things in ERD …
Diving deeper into EJB 3.0 Persistence with GlassFish (RI) – still out of container
In an earlier post, we embarked on a tour of EJB 3.0 Persistence for J2SE (stand alone out-of-container) applications: Getting Started with EJB 3.0 Persistence out-of-container using the Reference …
Using GlassFish Reference Implementation of EJB 3.0 Persistence with JDeveloper 10.1.3EA
In a previous article –Getting Started with EJB 3.0 Persistence out-of-container using the Reference Implementation (GlassFish) – I have introduced GlassFish, the official Reference Implementation for EJB 3.0, and …
JavaPolis 2005: what's hot and what's not?
As a first recap of my five days at Javapolis, here are my thoughts on trends, past, present and future of the Java platform. Expect to see more in-depth …
JavaPolis 2005 – EJB 3.0
While EJB 3.0 persistence gains a lot of attention we should not forget that EJB is more than persistence but also contains session beans and messaging driven beans. Mike …