Some announcements from JavaOne 2011 – Moving Java Forward
JavaOne 2011 proofs that the apparent decline of Java – as a language, a platform and a community – as been turned around into a steady growth again. Attendance …
Category: Software Development
OOW 2011 – What's New, Improved and Coming in Oracle Application Development
Currently at Tom Kyte’s session regarding topics new, improved or coming in Oracle Application Development. Tom told about the history APEX has gone thru and the current setup with …
My Agenda for Oracle Open World 2011
As the conference draws awfully close, I am trying to compose my final agenda. Some anchorpoints are my own sessions – those I have to attend. Then there is …
Oracle XMLDB XQuery Update in Database Release 11.2.0.3.0
I just made use of the very cool OTN Virtual Developer Day Database site. In this environment you can follow OTN Developer Day sessions, for example, at home, while …
Generate IDs in all components in ADF Faces pages and fragments – to facilitate automated Selenium based testing
Lately, we have been introducing Selenium based testing for many our ADF Faces based web applications. Or rather, our testers created the tests for the web pages using Selenium. …
Most important, yet most overlooked..
After reading the title of this blog post, you could easily be forgiven for not having a clue what this piece of writing will be about. Not to worry, …
Oracle Open World / Java One Preview bij AMIS
September 8, 2011
AMIS, Announce / Events, Database, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, SOA, WebCenter
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Op maandag 19 september zal er bij AMIS een Oracle Open World Preview sessie worden gehouden. Een groot deel van de Nederlanders die het dit jaar gelukt is om …
Fuzzy comparing (Dutch) person names with Java
Currently I’m working on a project and one ‘little’ functionality is to find a person from a list of which his name is most similar to an inputname. It’s …
ADF 11g R2 : Using the ActiveRowKey property
August 31, 2011
Architecture, Development Tools, IT, Oracle Application Development Framework, Software Engineering, Web/Java
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In ADF 11g Release 2, the ADF Table component has a property called ‘ActiveRowKey’. According to documentation, this represents the row that is currently active on the client. In …
How you manage to get an Object as outcome with a User task
Here’s a short update for those who, just as I did, searched for hours to the solution of getting an outcome object instead of the standard outcome string of …
Clone your Oracle FMW SOA Suite 11g
Sometimes, you would like to have an extract from a SOA Suite 11g  production environment to test it in a test or acceptance environment. There are several ways to …
BPMN standard User task explained in Oracle BPMSuite
There are some differences between the standard BPMN 2.0 and the ones that are available in Oracle’s BPMSuite. I will give a brief overview of the major differences and …
Screenscraping from Java using jsoup – effective data gathering from websites
In a recent article I discussed screenscraping in a in hindsight fairly clumsy way (https://technology.amis.nl/blog/12786/building-java-object-graph-with-tour-de-france-results-using-screen-scraping-java-util-parser-and-assorted-facilities). While preparing for a series of articles on data visualizations, I had need of …
Remove duplicate rows with Oracle SQL ROW_NUMBER – intelligent and efficient data cleansing
I am quite sure I have addressed this before. But I could not find it readily and I needed it today. So here it goes: I am loading data …
Running XQuery from Java applications using the XQJ API and the Oracle XDK implementation
While preparing for the new SOA for Java Professionals training program at AMIS, I was recently working on a section discussing XQuery and more specifically the ability to use …
Tour de France 2011 – Analysis using ADF DVT Graphs – Part 4 – Spark Charts
July 27, 2011
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server
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The final episode in a series on ADF DVT applied to the Tour de France 2011 results. In this series, I have used many of the ADF DVT Graph …
ADF 11g : Printing Directly From Your Application
Last week I was asked this question : “Can we print directly from within our ADF Application, without invoking the printer dialog ?” I wasn’t sure but after some …
Tour de France 2011 – Analysis using ADF DVT Graphs – Part 3 – Distance, Speed and Withdrawals with Pareto, Combination, Stock Chart (High/Low) and Bubble Chart
Another article on analyzing and visualizing the results from the Tour de France 2011 using the ADF DVT components. This article uses the same set of data already discussed …
Tour de France 2011 – Analysis using ADF DVT Graphs – Part 2 – Gap with Cadel for Top 5 throughout the stages
This article uses the statistics about this year’s Tour de France to visualize the gap between each of the top 5 riders and Cadel Evans – throughout the 21 …
Tour de France – Analysis using ADF DVT Graphs
In two previous articles, I have explained how it is possible to get hold of the results of the Tour de France 2011 (and previous years) using simple Java …
Book review: JDeveloper 11g Handbook: A Guide to Fusion Web Development
In this blog I will share with you my experiences with the Oracle JDeveloper11g Handbook – A Guide to Oracle Fusion Web Development (McGraw-Hill, 2010) – written by Duncan …
ODTUG KScope 2011: looking back
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Last week the yearly ODTUG KScope conference took place in Long Beach, California. I always need to time to let this wonderful event really sink in. The number of …
RuleGen 3.0 – the latest, leanest and most robust solution for complex data constraints in an Oracle Database
No matter how complex the enterprise and application architectures become, no matter the number of tiers, services, devices and user interfaces – at the heart of most enterprises will …
Using JPA to persist the Tour de France Java Object Graph to relational database tables
In a recent article – https://technology.amis.nl/blog/12786/building-java-object-graph-with-tour-de-france-results-using-screen-scraping-java-util-parser-and-assorted-facilities – I described how I retrieved the statistics for recent Tour de France editions from the official Tour de France website from my …
AMIS Mobile SIG – rain sensors pouring data into the mobile network
July 5, 2011
Database, Mobile, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Last night, the AMIS Mobile Special Interest Group convened. This session had as objective to explore the many different mobile agents and devices that we encounter, the types of …
Building Java Object Graph with Tour de France results – using screen scraping, java.util.Parser and assorted facilities
Last Saturday, the Tour de France 2011 departed. For people like myself, enjoying sports and working on Data Visualizations on the one hand and far fetched uses of SQL …
Using SQL UNPIVOT to prepare data for dynamic ADF Faces User Interfaces
The UNPIVOT operator was introduced in Oracle Database 11g – see for example: https://technology.amis.nl/blog/2421/the-oracle-11g-unpivot-operator-turning-columns-into-rows. In Oracle, the UNPIVOT operation is the process of turning Columns to Rows. Put simply, …
Creating an ADF Faces Dynamic Table with multi-faceted Head-to-Head comparison between records
July 2, 2011
Java, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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This article shows how to create a widget in an ADF Faces application that looks like this: This table shows a comparison between records – Departments in this case …
Suggestion for new type of ADF DVT (Data Visualization): the Delta Graph – to visualize relative changes integrated in a table layout
I may have bored you before with stories about Data Visualization. It is one of my favorite topics. We deal in data. And visualization of data can help to …
KSCOPE 2011: Keynote & Award Recognition
While the congrats are getting in via the usual virtual channels like Twitter and mail for being awarded the best speaker awards for the Database (Alex Nuijten) and Fusion …
KSCOPE 2011: What do you mean “Agile”
Currently in Cary Millsap’s session about his agile approach on things called “My Case for Agile Methods“. Agile is (not yet) my thing, but knowing Cary, and he is …
Kaleidoscope 2011: Sunday's Symposium
Sunday’s Conference day started very early at around 07:30 by going straight to registration, then on to a quick breakfast and the first session at 08:30 AM. Joel Kallman …
Book Review : Oracle ADF Enterprise Application Development – Made Simple
On my way to Los Angeles (Long Beach) for KScope 2011 (12 Hours in an airplane) I had plenty of time to do some reading and writing.The book I …
Turning any XML document into a Java Object graph using JAXB 2.0
As a followup to my recent article on how to Produce and XML document based on data in a POJO structure using JAXB (https://technology.amis.nl/blog/12499/creating-an-xml-document-based-on-my-pojo-domain-model-how-will-jaxb-help-me) I will describe in this …
Creating an XML document based on my POJO domain model – how will JAXB help me?
The challenge is a common one. We have got data in a domain model, based on POJOs. And we need to marshall that data into an XML document. Note …
How to run into and resolve EL PropertyNotFound exception and propertyNotReadable in JSF with private inner class
The other day on one of the projects I am involved with, we ran into an unexpected exception, from an innocent looking EL expression: javax.el.PropertyNotFoundException: … value=”Book #{book.title}”: Missing …
Using the ADF DVT Radar Graph for comparing series – further analyzing ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2011 Session Schedule
June 22, 2011
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server
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I have always had a fascination for the Data Visualization capabilities of all the tools and technologies I have worked with. For example: I worked with Oracle Graphics 2.0, …
JDeveloper 11gR2: New option Test WebService in WSDL editor – quickest route to implement and test JAX-WS SOAP WebService
It is just a little feature addition – this ‘Test WebService’ button in the WSDL Editor in JDeveloper 11g Release 2 that was released last week. But it can …
Leveraging HTML 5 Navigator API to show the browser's current location on an ADF Faces 11gR2 Thematic Map component
This article demonstrates how, through a bit of JavaScript interacting with the HTML 5 Navigator API, some more JavaScript using the ADF Faces Rich Components API and the ADF …
ODTUG KScope Preview 2011
Ook dit jaar, namelijk op dinsdag 14 Juni, organiseert AMIS de ODTUG Preview. Het jaarlijkse congres van de ODTUG, de Oracle Development Tools Users Group, vind dit jaar plaats …