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 …
Category: Java
Design Patterns in PL/SQL – Interface Injection for even looser coupling
In a previous article, I discussed Dependency Injection (aka Inversion of Control and the Hollywood principle) and more specifically an implementation of Dependency Injection in PL/SQL. In that we …
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 …
Dependency Injection in PL/SQL – Remove Hard Coded Dependencies from your code
Frequently our code has dependencies. Some are intrinsic dependencies, like the packages we need to invoke and the type definitions we rely on. Other dependencies are more like configuration …
Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) in PL/SQL – Is it hot? Is it cool? Or utterly useless?
One of the hottest topics in Java programming right now is probably Aspect Oriented Programming. Made popular by frameworks such as AspectJ and Spring, AOP refers to a new …
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 – …
Third AJAX article published by IBM
Recently, IBM released two articles about AJAX on their website, called Mastering AJAX, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax and Mastering AJAX, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and …
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 …
Oracle acquires SleepyCat – open-source BerkeleyDB embeddable database engine now owned by Oracle
It was a rumour – actually one of three: JBoss, SleepyCat and Zend PHP, see our article Is Oracle buying JBoss? Or Zend PHP? Or SleepyCat? Or all of …
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 …
EJB3.0 in Netbeans 5.0
Over the past few weeks, several articles about EJB3.0 have been published on our weblog. On Thursday, 10 Februari 2006, the author of those articles, Lucas Jellema, presented a …
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 …
EJB 3.0 Persistence – Workshop Materiaal
Gisteren, donderdag 9 februari, hadden we een uitstekende bijeenkomst rondom EJB 3.0 Persistence API. Met z’n 16-en – waarvan twee geïnteresseerde externen – hebben we in goed drie uur …
Spring is bursting out all over
In an article on dev2dev, BEA’s Bill Wroth observes the increase of the usage of the Spring framework on WebLogic customer sites. He writes: "As I travel around to …
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 …
Netbeans 5.0 released
Finally it’s there! Netbeans 5.0 has been released. Including: Project Matisse; completely redesigned support for CVS; support for WebLogic 9, JBoss 4 and Sun Application Server; Struts and Java …
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 …
JDeveloper 10.1.3 is released. At last.
It has finally happened: JDeveloper 10.1.3 has been released. No news headlines on the OTN frontpage yet, but to be found on the JDeveloper download page: That went …
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 …
Sun and Oracle intensify cooperation
Last week, Sun and Oracle announced a 20+ year period of more intense cooperation. According to this link http://www.sun.com/2006-0111/feature/index.html Sun and Oracle will forcus on these three main areas: …
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 …
NetBeans 5.0 RC2 released
Just over a week after RC1, the NetBeans project team has released NetBeans 5.0RC2 today. Go and get it everyone!
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 …
OptimalJ impressions
I recently attended a three-day training workshop for OptimalJ (the Architect Edition). OptimalJ promises to provide a complete MDA solution, and this was my first opportunity to get some …
Java Developer Journal (SYS-CON) Announces Readers’ Choice Awards for SOA, Web Services, Java, and XML Technologies – We love Eclipse!
It seems to be awards day or so. On Syscon (Australia) I found the announcement of the JDJ Reader’s Awards. It is interesting, because of the fairly literate and …
Developer.com Awards – Java on top
Just noticed on The Server Side an announcement regarding the "Developer.com Product of the Year 2006 Winners". As you can see for yourself, JSF (Java Server Faces), Ant, Eclipse …
Using cursors in Oracle ADF.
Generating master-detail relationships in Oracle ADF usually is done using two (or more) View Objects which are linked together via a View Link. In a stand-alone application, getting the …
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. …
Proxy Servlet for AJAX requests to multiple, remote servers
AJAX is hot, great and will make the world a better place. We all know that. However, AJAX has some limitations. AJAX is about making additional HttpRequests from the …
More highlights of JavaPolis 2005
14 and 15 December of last year I got the chance to visit the first and second conference day at Javapolis 2005. And although (or maybe because) I got …