JavaPolis 2005 – SOA
Since SOA is hot, many presentations were devoted to differents aspects of services. The adoptation of services is growing rapidly. This requires standarization in the way we handle services …
Category: Platform Technology
JavaPolis 2005 – The Web Tier
Many frameworks offer support for developing web applications. Allmost all of them implement the MVC pattern. They can be divided into two groups: action based and component based frameworks. …
Oracle Java Technology rules the JavaPolis RAD Race – three winners, using JDeveloper; two also using ADF
We just received word about the results from the RAD race at JavaPolis 2005. 12 teams competed against each other, each bringing its favourite technology stack. It is a …
Selenium – Browser based Tool for Integration Testing of Web Applications (JavaPolis Quicky)
Selenium, a test-tool for Web Applications, was the subject of one of the quicky presentations (15 minutes max) on JavaPolis this week. It is described as: Selenium is a …
EJB 3.0 Reference Implementation with teeth – Open Source EJB 3.0 by Sun and Oracle (Report from JavaPolis)
There are some major waves in J(2)EE territory captivating much of the focus of the audience at this year’s JavaPolis – and beyond. One undoubtedly is Java Server Faces. …
JavaPolis 2005 – Here we come!
Next week, we are off to Antwerp. A crew of seven AMIS Java/J2EE developers will visit JavaPolis, the largest Java/J2EE conference on this side of the Atlantic. I will …
Improve your Web Forms deployment using the Java JDAPI library
Did you (or one of your customers) ever encounter ORA-00942 (table or view does not exist) while working in a (Web) form? No, then you can skip this post. …
JHeadstart – Querying a Master for its Details – for example: search Departments with at least one Clerk
JHeadstart can generate a number of powerful search facilities, such as the Quick Search widget and Advanced Search area. It supports several different serach operators such as contains, like, …
JHeadstart 10.1.2.2 Release (a very short while ago)
December 2, 2005
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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As of now, JHeadstart 10.1.2.2 is available from http://cso.oracle.com – for organisations who have the JHeadstart Supplement Option. I have recently been making fixes and extensions to JHeadstart Application …
Newsflash on JHeadstart – 10.1.3 in March 2006, 10.1.2.2 next week
Triggered by Steve Muench’s weblog, I stumbled across a recent posting by the JHeadstart Team on their current and future activity: The Future of JHeadstart. The big news of …
Implementing Data Validation in ADF UIX application
Validation of business rules, of data oriented business logic, is one of my favorite recurring challenges. Around these rules, there are always interesting discussions about how and especially where …
Extend the JHeadstart 10.1.2.1 Application Generator to generate optional attribute as required in the client
This article serves two purposes: it extends the JHeadstart Application Generator to set UIX items to "required" based on a new custom Mandatory property – instead of driven from …
Issue LOV JHeadstart 10.1.2.0
JHeadstart version: 10.1.2.0 (build 19) and probably 10.1.2.1 ADF UIX version: 2.2.16 JDeveloper version: 10.1.2.17.84 Description After launching a LOV and selecting a value from it, the lookup values …
Jdbc, Clobs and Strings
Clob handling in jdbc can be a tedious job, especially because it required the use of Oracle specific extensions. With the 10g release this has been simplified and Clobs …
Book Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing
September 20, 2005
Book reviews and Publications, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server
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Title: Pragmatic Unit Testing Authors: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas ISBN: 0-9745140-2-0 pages: 150 This book gives a good introduction into the different aspects of unit testing. It’s easy readible …
AJAX Tag Library – Open Source project for easy use of AJAX mechanisms from JSPs
I just googled across this open source project. It is relatively simple, but can be quite useful. Its demos are at any rate useful, if only for the JavaScript …
Enhancing PHP-based WordPress Weblog with AJAX driven enrichments
Over the past period I have written several articles on AJAX – the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML mechanism for dynamically updating a web-page based on background communication with the …
Increasing speed of making data available in the web-page – on AJAX, controlling data caching and JavaScript Libraries
The problem I am dealing with: downloading all data that is potentially to be displayed in the client – for example in SELECT LISTS – takes too long to …
An Introduction To Ajax – great article on dev2dev
I just came across an article that very clearly introduces AJAX: An Introduction To Ajax Recently I did an internal presentation Enhancing Web Applications with AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, UIX – …
AMIS Query – donderdag 29 september 2005 – Java Server Faces en ADF Faces, van vergezicht tot standaard View technologie
(this event on JSF and ADF Faces will take place in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands and will be Dutch-spoken. Hence this announcement in Dutch) AMIS Query: Java Server Faces, van …
Standard for Database Development – Getting rid of USER from PL/SQL and SQL – no longer is USER equivalent to End User
Many applications built in the Client/Server era made use of the fact that every end user had his or her own Database User Account and every Database Connection and …
Introducing Spring Framework – Overview presentation and demonstration for Oracle Consulting
Last week, I had the opportunity to present on the Spring Framework for the Oracle Consulting Java Professional Community at Oracle The Netherlands. Having worked at Oracle for over …
Spring and Oracle ADF – registering a POJO Spring JDBC based Business Service as Data Control
In several previous posts, I have wondered about the potential for combining the ADF Binding Framework and the IDE capabilities around ADF in Oracle 10g JDeveloper with the Spring …
JHeadstart Sighting: Steve Muench's Column in Oracle Magazine – Frameworks: Creating Search Pages
Swinging in the sun, enjoying one of this Summer’s last great days perhaps, I was reading the September/October issue of Oracle Magazine. One the interesting pieces this issue was …
Role of the Database in a J2EE Architecture – Dumb Data Store? Only Data Tier? Also Business Tier?
The other day, we had a very interesting debate about the role of the database in (our) Java/J2EE projects and architectures. Should you limit the use of the database …
Introducing Spring JDBC – frequently the best introduction of Spring in an organization
Spring consists of a number of modules, such as the IoC Container, AOP, MVC, Persistence, DAO and Remoting. These modules are relatively losely coupled: some can be used without …
JUnit testing with EasyMock
Mockobjects are the classic solution to the even more classic problem of how to test code in isolation, when that code needs other objects to perform its tasks. The …
On Line Documentation for Oracle 10gAS 10.1.2 – including ADF Documentation
For the on-line documentation for release 10.1.2 of the Oracle Application Server, see http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_10/web.htm. It contains besides others links to documentation on the ADF (Application Development Framework), such as …
Building Custom JSF UI Components – Article Chris Schalk TheServerSide.com
Today I read this very interesting article by Chris Schalk – responsible for the Web application development features within Oracle JDeveloper- TheServerSide.com – Building Custom JSF UI Components. Chris …
Enhancing Web Applications with AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, UIX – Report from An AMIS Ten Minute TechTalk
I was kindly requested recently to do a brief – and it was stressed several times that it really had to be brief, not something I am particularly well-known …
IBM Open Sources WebFountain (UIMA) – Unstructured Text Analysis software
It sounds intriguing. If only I could really get it. IBM has developed software, called UIMA for Unstructured Information Management Architecture, that can be used for analysis of unstructured …
Getting Hibernate3 to work in JDeveloper 10.1.3
Our company focuses mainly on Oracle related products. Our Java developers use JDeveloper in combination with JHeadstart to build web applications. But that doesn’t mean we’re not interested and …
Use Data Tree in List of Values Window – ADF BC and UIX and JHeadstart
Recently I have had several occasions where I had to implement a List of Values, allowing the users to select a value from a large set of reference values. …
Ant, Stored Procedures and dbms_output
Running sql (scripts) from ant using the ant task is quite easy and straight forward. Unfortunately, the ant sql task is not really suited for running pl/sql, e.g. exec …
Oracle Rules… the world?? Design and Run-time Rules Engine – also for PL/SQL?
I was triggered by the news item on OC4J on OTN’s homepage, ” Download Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.3) Developer Preview 4 – including … Oracle Rules” to resume …
New HTML Form element: Radio Select – Combining Radio Button and Select items
It has always been a bit of a tricky discussion, when to use a group of Radio Buttons and when to use a Select (List) in an HTML Form. …
Running UltraSearch
Oracle UltraSearch is a web-based search application based on Oracle Text. It can be used to index a wide variety of datasources like websites, databases, files etc. and to …
ODTUG 2005 Wrap Up part 3 – The position of JHeadstart and The Magnifying Glass gadget for presenters
It was over more than a week ago. But I am still processing all I have heard and seen at ODTUG 2005, the Oracle Development Tools User Group conference …
Workshop ADF Binding Framework – Creating a programmatic ADF Client and Developing a WebService front end using Oracle ADF
With last week’s workshop on the ADF Binding Framework (with 13 AMIS Java developers) and next week’s three day workshop on JHeadstart and the Knowledge Center session on Oracle …
Oracle Fusion
As the world is moving to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) companies are rebranding and consolidating their products into a complete, supportive and integrated platform. That’s where Oracle Fusion Middleware …