Category: Java
It has been awaited for a long time. But now it’s finally there: JDeveloper 11g! At the time of this writing (Tuesday, October 7, 11:20 AM CEST), only the …
This is the eight of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. Purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and discuss …
A recent acquisition by Oracle involved a company called Empirix, that sold its e-Test Suite product to Oracle. Oracle is now integrating this product with Enterprise Manager, under the …
It has been a while. But now we are finally about to witness the production release of JDeveloper 11g and ADF 11g including the ADF RichFaces components. Today, Oracle …
I just found that at OTN’s TopLink page the announcement is already published that was expected later today: TopLink 11g is available. Note that TopLink 11g is based on …
One of the theme songs for this year’s Oracle Open World undoubtedly will be ADF 11g. All by itself (Web 2.0) and as the glue for Enterprise 2.0 (WebCenter) …
Writing unit-tests should be part of your development process whether you write them before or after the actual coding I leave that up to you. On of the pitfalls …
Normally important news on IT subjects comes to me via IT media – blogs, discussion forums, newsletters and rumors & gossip. This morning, my newspaper carried the story on …
The other night I had an interesting dinner date: seated around me were an Oracle ACE Director (Mark) and two Oracle employees, experts on Oracle Coherence (Ewan) and Oracle …
One of the challenges in building Portal pages is to have events from one Portlet have the desired effect on other Portlets. For example when I select a location …
A BPEL process without using vendor specific extensions should run everywhere without much hassle. But unfortunately it doesn’t. In this article I will show you how to create a …
Even when JSF was not around and ADF Faces was still called UIX, Oracle already had the cool “Partial Page Request” (PPR) feature. What this boils down to is that …
One very efficient way of passing data from the Java application to the database is through the use of custom Oracle Types. Even when we want to send a …
In this article something you may never do in exactly this way. Yet something that may become increasingly more useful, as our databases will have ever more Data Service …
While preparing for a whole different topic, I had to create a few demonstrations of using custom SQL Types and Collections in both SQL and PL/SQL. While nothing spectacular …
There are many ways to reassign employees. You, as a programmer or DBA could, for instance, write an update statement to do that. But let’s say that you don’t …
Oracle recently published the most recent version of their global price list. I am not sure how it translates to local transactions (for example if and how the currency …
Recently I have been doing quite some work with WebServices – calling them and implementing them, from and in both PL/SQL and Java. And in conjunction with BPEL and …
The other day, I sat preparing for a demonstration of a data driven Java Web application. I preferred to be able to present the demo without actually having to …
When we were doing the APEX vs. ADF session at the last day of the ODTUG Conference yesterday, Dimitri showed a nice feature in APEX that allows you to …
The 11g release of the Oracle Database gave us the PL/SQL Function Result Cache. This feature can help speed up performance in calling PL/SQL functions by caching function When …
One of things to learn during conferences is about the tricks used by fellow presenters to make their presentations better fun. One of the nicest things I picked up …
Any conference with a large crowd of developers, passionate about their work and the tools they work with, is of course a breeding ground for speculations, rumours, frustrations, honest …
Being in New Orleans for a festive conference like ODTUG brings me in a mood to write about something colorful – even if not very useful. And perhaps every …
In the course of my current studies into XSD (XML Schema Definition) and how to convert from XSD to Java Class and vice versa as well as to Database …
Though I did not particularly liked it, not having my bag returned by the conveyor belts of New Orleans Airport as I arrived yesterday for the ODTUG 2008 Kaleidoscope …
While the 2.0 release of the JSF specification will do something about it, the 1.x implementations of JavaServer Faces only offer request, session and application scope. Many JSF implementations …
Earlier this week, Geertjan Wielenga asked me if he could come and visit me to watch the Netherlands beat France in the soccer match on Friday, June 13. Of …
Today me colleagues Lucas, Gerwin and I got some nice “Oracle Open World Welcome Notification” e-mails from the Oracle Open World 2008 team. We are happy to announce that …
Lucas Jellema
May 30, 2008
AMIS, Databases, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
Thursday 29th May – some 70 Java specialists gathered to discuss the main themes and findings from the 2008 JavaOne conference. Peter, Wouter and Lucas presented on their experiences …
An Overview of Oracle ADF Data Visualization Components – Tuesday, June 3rd – 16.30-21.00, Nieuwegein Oracle JDeveloper 11g Application Development Framework (ADF) offers a powerful and productive environment for …
This week Sander Hoogendoorn (Cap Gemini) presented a seminar about “Estimation with Use Casesâ€. Generally, this seminar confirmed that the development method of AMIS, internally called the “Way We …
The GlassFish and OpenESB session we hosted yesterday was very interesting. Alexis Moussine-Pouchkine, Java Architect at Sun Microsystems in France and GlassFish Evangelist (though he is none too happy …
A table without single-column primary key, Java developers don’t like them because it’s more work than just putting @Id on a field. When you’re using Hibernate Annotations you might …
JavaOne 2008 made one thing abundantly clear: everyone who owns a product, being it a commercial product or an open source product, desperately needs attention. A product that is …
Apart from sessions in which an overview of a certain topic is presented, JavaOne also had a few sessions in which the audience got the chance to actually do …
Some words, names of terminology quickly come to govern a conference such as JavaOne 2008. Some things are talk of the day or even the hour, while other themes …
While at the Oracle booth in the Java Pavilion during JavaOne, I took the opportunity to pose a question to one of the JDeveloper product managers about an issue …
Tonight Lucas, Wouter and myself went to a very interesting session at JavaOne, to hear how two of my favourite Java technologies, EclipseLink and Coherence, can work together to …
JavaServer Faces has been around since 2004. The current release is 1.2. Work has started to produce the 2.0 release which will be part of JEE6, which is slated …
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