Category: Java

Today JavaOne 2008 ofiicially started. About 15,000 Java minded people showed up at Moscone Center in San Francisco. On our way there, my colleague Lucas remarked “Java One at …

At this moment we are sitting in the Moscone Center South in the general session offically opening JavaOne 2008. The room is very much packed and the T-shirt plus …

The first action packed day is over. I have written on some of the most interesting topics I attended sessions on yesterday. For details on: OpenSSO, see https://technology.amis.nl/blog/?p=3129 OpenSocial …

The Web is better when it is social – is the tagline for the OpenSocial (API) initiative. This initiative, from Google and many partners in the Social  Networking arena …

On Sunday, May 4 about 50 GlassFish users and developers got together to have some informal sessions about several GlassFish related topics. In the past weeks, anyone planning to …

Near the end of CommunityOne, I am currently attending a session on OpenSSO by a lively team of presenterts from Sun. The objective of OpenSSO is to provide a …

The wait is over. The biggest Java show on earth is underway. Well, it is a big event, but it is not just a Java show. This first day …

Following hot on the heels of a previous article on BAM – Business Activity Monitoring in Oracle 11g SOA Suite – this article will discuss how to integrate BPEL …

One of the main features that has become available with the JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview 4 that was released a few days back, is the BAM component. BAM stands …

The Oracle Technology Network just published the fourth Technology Preview for JDeveloper 11g. In the nick of time to demonstrate and announce for JavaOne 2008, that starts in a …

Last Thursday, I did a presentation during the Dutch Oracle User Group event on JDeveloper 11g TP3. I sort of made fun of ourselves: the title of the event …

The other day I did a presentation during the Dutch Java User Group conference (NLJUG) in Bussum. In a way this was a trial run for the presentation with …

Wicket is around for a while, but lately it is getting more and more attention. A few years ago I attended a presentation about Wicket. It looked like a …

Events are an important element of SOA infrastructures. Events carry information between SCA Components – without direct dependencies or interaction between these components. Events are published by components in …

On the SOA-training I’m following we’re using the Oracle SOA Suite, a very nice product, but the time needed between saving changes and deploying the process takes way too …

In a previous post – Oracle 11g SOA Suite – Straightforward Mediator example (employees from file to database) – I demonstrated how we can quickly implemented a Service Composite …

It’s SCA based, it has the Event Driven Network (EDN), a much better integration between the components, an AJAX powered console and a better design time. It’s the all …

In the year that XML celebrates his 10th anniversary, Oracle announces to make the XQuilla XQuery engine available under the open source Apache 2.0 license. Via official sources, the …

Although most navigation takes place within the Java Server Faces application we are currently developing, some is from the outside. From an existing web application that handles the workflow …

When building ADF applications using JHeadstart, one can benefit from the pretty advanced search facilities provided by JHeadstart, both through its runtime framework and as generated by the JHeadstart …

As you can imagine, with many validators on many entity objects you will end up with equally many generated message bundles. When you start localizing the error messages, that …

One of things we do at AMIS is develop sometimes fairly complex applications built on the Oracle ADF technology stack. On several occasions, we have been working closely together …

Growing insight during development of a project often results in a wish to rename a BC object (entity object, view object, association, view object attribute, alias, usage, etc.) in …

This article describes how to make a login feature for your application, which uses database tables for authentication and authorization.

Today I crossed some boundaries with my personal understanding of Java Server Faces. I have gone where I had not gone before. We were facing the following situation: our …

Two weeks ago, during the first session of our 3-month SOA Training program, we worked very hard on XML (and XSD, XPath and XSLT). Today, this starts to pay …

Our challenge: from every one of our 100+ pages we would like to be able to invoke a specific operation on the ApplicationModules Client Interface. Ideally, we should create …

Of all the new and exciting stuff I have seen at Oracle OpenWorld this year, two new technologies (at least to me) stand out. The first is CEP (Complex …

Issues are an important way of organizing tasks around both development and maintenance of the application as well as for collecting collective knowledge about the application and the use …

It was serious business yesterday. Within 10 minutes I received word of the Oracle BEA acquisition and the Sun MySQL take over. That was a lot to take in …

Today in the car I had some thoughts on applications working together, across the boundaries of technology and organizations. I tried to find an easy, cheap way for for …

As described in earlier postings in this series, the ADF Faces 11g RichFaces library has several facilities for client side logic to complement the already pretty rich client functionality. …

In this second part of a series on ADF 11g Rich Faces Client Programming, I will talk about the option to include JavaScript in a PPR response, to execute …

Really cool, Web 2.0, AJAX powered JSF applications are inconceivable without substantial use of JavaScript. Whether or not the Java developers like it, it is a fact of life. …

 Google Calendar (http://www.google.com/calendar) is one of the many services offered by Google. It allows users to manage a personal or shared agenda on line, from the comfort of their …

In a previous article, I showed two versions of more or less the same application. One created in APEX by Dimitri Gielis, the other built using ADF and JHeadstart …

Showing both APEX and ADF and giving the audience some inkling as to there similarities and their differences – what is the best way of doing that? Well, one …

It was promised at Oracle Open World by Thomas Kurian, just over a month ago. And now Oracle delivers on that promise: the Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Preview at …

Last Monday, we organized an AMIS Query on APEX and ADF. Dimitri Gielis, APEX specialist, joined us and presented his ideas on APEX. I took on the role as …

About a year ago Frank Nimphius wrote this weblog article about using a rich text editor called openWYSIWYG in ADF applications. Recently we encountered the need for such an …