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 …
Category: Platform Technology
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 …
ADF Faces – The Next Really Big thing from Oracle Development (ODTUG Wrap Up – Part II)
One of the important threads through the entire ODTUG 2005 Conference last week was the future of JDeveloper and Oracle’s position in the Java/J2EE Arena in general. It turns …
JDeveloper for free
The rumours were right: JDeveloper will be available for free. However, ADF and OC4J still need to be licenced (for use in a production environment). Read the discussion on …
Day Two of the ODTUG 2005 Conference – Oracle's Development Tools Strategy, JDeveloper free?, JHeadstart and more…
ODTUG 2005 is under way. 600 Oracle Developers, users of Oracle Forms and Designer, JDeveloper and Portal, Discoverer and Reports and many other Oracle technologies, have gathered in the …
Pulling the rug from under your feet while keeping standing – Using the Hot Swappable Target Source in Spring AOP
Spring AOP offers a wealth of new options in programming as well as designing Java applications. A somewhat more advanced feature is the Hot Swappable Target Source. The concept …
Getting into Spring AOP – Implementing simple business logic on top of Domain Objects using Aspect Oriented Programming
Aspect Oriented Programming is one of the hypes in Java programming. Through AOP, we can program the functionality for a Class in more ways than just by writing the …
Jumpstart Spring
Since Lucas already gave an in-depth review of the Spring workshop, I’ll take the breadcrumbs ;-( After some years of Java/j2ee developing Spring comes for me at the right …
How to call methods from EL expressions- pre JSP 2.0 trick for JSPs with JSTL
I finally got round to describing a trick that I have implemented more than one year ago. It happened to come up during last week’s Spring workshop, so I …
Spring Workshop – Day Four – Rod and Alef on AOP, JMX and Remoting (Spring does EJB??)
Friday I attended the last day of the Spring Workshop. An interesting menu for today’s dinner: Aspect Oriented Programming, JMX support and Remoting. Friday, the last day of the …
My First AJAX – the simplest Asynchronuous JavaScript Server call man can imagine
Inspired by Aino’s post AJAX and RIA, I wanted to get my first XMLHttpRequest object based AJAX example getting up and running. It is a standalone HTML page that …
Who is calling me? – Analyzing the Java Callstack
During the Spring Workshop, Rod Johnson started a brief discussion on how to find out in a Java Class who invoked the method currently being executed. The best trick: …
Ajax and Ria
Despite of what the title may suggest this is not about a greek mythological drama about a hero and a woman. But it ÃÂs about interaction and exchanging of …
Struts-Layout tag library 1.1 released
Quoting straight from The Server Side: Struts-Layout is a tag library for Struts which provides skinnable tags that display panels, input fields, form modes,tables, pagers, treeviews, sortable lists, popups, …
Day 3 of the Spring Workshop – On Persistence and Transactions and ever more Test Driven Development
Rod Johnson took over from Alef again to talk about the Spring DAO module, Spring’s support for leading persistence frameworks. Spring takes over a lot of configuration details for …
Spring MVC – move over Struts? Day two of the Spring Workshop
Today I attended the second day of the Spring Workshop by Rod Johnson and Alef Arendsen, two of the core team of the Spring Framework. Having been thoroughly lectured …
Power to the POJO – day one of the Spring Core Committer's workshop
If there is one wave (or hype if you like) flooding the Java/J2EE arena right now – well, there is JSF and EJB 3.0 and AJAX and Java 5 …
Craig McClanahan – JavaServer Faces: Dead on Arrival or Raging Success? (from the TheServerSide Java Symposium 2005)
What seems like a very interesting presentation from the tech lead for JSF: TheServerSide Java Symposium 2005. The description: The need for a common API for Java-based web application …
Using the Distributed Configuration Manager (DCM) command shell…
At first I couldn’t remember this dcm-commands and always had to type them at least twice untill… I learned about the “shell”- subcommand which is part of Oracle iAS’s …
AMIS Query – ADF and JHeadstart – Judgment Day; also: UIX Skins, ADF and WebServices and JHeadstart New Features
Yesterday, Thursday May 26th, AMIS organized another of its AMIS Queries. These sessions usually bring together a substantial number of top Oracle & Java Developers from The Netherlands. This …
DB utilities – Oracle JPublisher enables you to easily access PL/SQL from Java
The tool JPublisher is a little bit unknown. But it is a very handy tool for accessing PL/SQL stored procedures, packages, functions as well as object, collection or reference …
Integrating Ant and Checkstyle
The Open Source Java code checker Checkstyle can be easily used by Ant to check your Java code. This is an excerpt from an Ant build.xml file using the …
How to implement an unique key constraint in ADF BC?
In an ADF project that deals with building a membership administration application for a sporting organization, I ran against the question how I could implement the validation of the …
AJAX with UIX – PrimaryClientAction for instantaneous server-based client refresh
The whole hype around AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) for background client-server communication from JavaScript in HTML pages is very interesting. It allows for much more responsive, interactive and …
Xopus
Recently Xopus, a browser based XML editor, attracted some attention. This stimutated us for a review. The editor itself is completely written in javascript and relies on the MSXML …
Preview of Oracle Drive – A Windows WebDAV interface on steroids
Oracle announces a preview release of Oracle Drive. A Windows WebDAV interface on steroids, Oracle Drive combines and surfaces features from both the Windows file system and the Oracle …
J-Spring 2005
On Thursday, May 12 2005, the Dutch Java Uusers Group (nl-jug) organised a Java conference entitled J-Spring 2005. This article describes my findings of this conference.
Generating Matrix-Forms using ADF and JHeadstart – (Excel style)
One of the long-standing challenges of application development – in any technology – is the Matrix Form: an updateable grid-like structure of rows, columns and cells. In this post …