Category: Software Development
In a recent article, I discussed how to create a fairly structured hierarchical report – table style – using ADF 10g not-so-rich Faces – see creating-a-read-only-hierarchical-table-report-with-adf-10g. The temptation …
Breadcrumbs are a navigation technique used in many applications, and its popularity grows. Its purpose is to give users a way to keep track of their location. Breadcrumbs typically …
Selecting a row in a table with search results to drill down to its details is a fairly common operation in web application. I have implemented such functionality …
Just over two years ago I wrote an article on this blog – integrating-adf-faces-and-myfaces-tomahawk-creating-a-popup-with-adf-faces-shuttle-component (supported by Changing the order of columns in a JSF Table Component -in the …
One of the valuable new components available in ADF 11g RichFaces is the Popup component. While one must be careful not to overuse all the new tools in …
The Flow activity is used to configure parallel activity in BPEL processes. In theory, activities contained in two or more branches (sequence containers) inside a Flow activity are …
After three introductory and exploratory articles on RestLet, RESTful Services and the creation of the latter using the former in JDeveloper 11g as well as hooking it up with …
The previous two articles on RESTful services using RestLet and developing in JDeveloper 11g – First Steps with RestLet 1.1RC2 in JDeveloper 11g – restful services 101 and Extending …
WebServices are hot. Some more so than others. SOAP based WebServices are frequently seen as not very lean and agile. Robust – perhaps. Widely supported – no doubt about …
Yesterday evening we had a nice, interactive, session about PL/SQL Developer. Theo Tol (BI4U) came by to tell us more about the tool and how it can be used. …
There are different manners to display hierarchical data. One of the most intuitive ways is using a tree structure like a file browser. This enables the ability of simple …
Oracle has just released JDeveloper 11g. I was off course very interested so here are my first impressions. Instead of just unzipping the download as we used to do, …
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 …
Real Time SQL Monitoring is more or less old news because it was build-in in Oracle version 11.1.0.6.0. The documentation can be found in the Oracle® Database Performance Tuning …
Maybe the following question will arise after reading the title: Oracle Workflow isn’t that obsolete technology? The answer can be very short: Yes it is. (Read the SOD on …
In het midden van de 90-er jaren waren er heel weinig en vrij beperkte ontwikkeltools beschikbaar voor het ontwikkelen van PL/SQL. Tegenwoordig is dat heel anders en zijn er …
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 …
Larry yesterday did his keynote here at Oracle Open World introducing the “Oracle(R) Exadata Storage Server”. This morning I attended a session about the technical details behind the server. …
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 …
Last Thursday nine OOW presenters rehearsed their presentations for Oracle Open World 2008. As I won’t be in San Francisco next week, I was very glad with the opportunity …
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 …
I almost forgot that there was life before JDeveloper and ADF 11g…… As of last week, the JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 release is available for download on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/htdocs/soft10134.html. Apparently, this …
Oracle has upgraded the apex.oracle.com service. Now you can use this free service to evaluate Oracle Application Express and (some of) the new PL/SQL and SQL features of the Oracle …
AMIS is puting more and more emphasis on IT architecture. That is one of the reasons why I am doing my Masters in IT architecture and why AMIS is …
When developing and/or debugging BPEL processes, the Oracle BPEL Console is your best friend. Every change to every variable, every activity that was executed, everything is right there for …
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 …
During the ODTUG conference in New Orleans, there were multiple sessions for the Development/DBA. As I consider myself a developer with a great interest in the database, I love …
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 …
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