Category: Software Development
2009 will be the year of JEE 6. Important specifications in the JEE 6 platform are Servlet and JavaServer Faces. JEE 6 will contain the Servlet 3.0 specification …
A lot of interesting stuff is going on. More and more (dynamic typed) languages are appearing and getting more attention. Are they better than the Java language?
Here you will find the first demo from my Devoxx 2008 presentation. It shows how you can rapidly create a rich web application based on Java Server Faces …
I am currently attending the Devoxx Conference in Antwerp, the largest gathering of Java developers this side of the pond. I was last here in 2005 – a …
As I was preparing for my Devoxx presentation next Monday, I decided to look at the somewhat harder way of integrating a JPA based business tier into a JavaServer …
ADF 11g Rich Client Components have a facility called the Change(d) Indicator. The changed attribute is specified using a Boolean value or expression (typically the latter). When the …
The other day, I was using the JDeveloper debugger to locally debug some code in an application that uses (and therefore becomes part of) an Oracle Coherence data grid. As …
In a project where i am working on, we needed to show an image and the image should be change when a user would like to do that. For …
Inspired by a blog article by Edwin Biemond, I decided to try it out myself: previewing an PDF document in an image. However, Edwin used jPedal (http://www.jpedal.org/), a commercial …
Today a discussion arose with one of the UI Designers on the ADF 11g project I work on. He is used to a certain way of styling web applications. …
We were faced by an interesting challenge: our JSF application should display boilerplate text – titles, button labels, prompt, error messages, tool tips etc, – in a context …
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 …
