AMIS Query on Oracle Coherence
Of all the new and exciting stuff I have seen at Oracle OpenWorld this year, two new technologies (at least to me) stand out. The first is CEP (Complex …
Category: Software Development
How to write a good incident description/file a clear bug report
Issues are an important way of organizing tasks around both development and maintenance of the application as well as for collecting collective knowledge about the application and the use …
Oracle buys BEA, Sun buys MySQL – it must be the post Christmas shopping season…
It was serious business yesterday. Within 10 minutes I received word of the Oracle BEA acquisition and the Sun MySQL take over. That was a lot to take in …
Scribble on a Pull-turns-push architecture based on http – registering web applications as event listeners
Today in the car I had some thoughts on applications working together, across the boundaries of technology and organizations. I tried to find an easy, cheap way for for …
Your lucky if you are in Holland – A Great Symposium Announced
Oracle The Netherlands just announced, via email, an great "RedDatabase Symposium" event / symposium on 10,11 and 12th of March, organized by RedStone Innovations. The focal points for this …
Oracle BPEL Process Manager: Most efficient way to manage dynamic process level (cross instance) data
BPEL Process definitions frequently include parameters that influence the flow through the process. Sometimes these parameters are embedded as hard coded values sometimes variables dynamically retrieved from a PartnerLink …
ADF 11g Rich Faces: using clientTriggers and JavaScript API to implement client side logic in ADF Faces pages (Client Side programming in ADF Faces Rich Client Components Part 3)
January 5, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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As described in earlier postings in this series, the ADF Faces 11g RichFaces library has several facilities for client side logic to complement the already pretty rich client functionality. …
ADF 11g Rich Faces: focus on field after button press or PPR – Including JavaScript in PPR response and ClientListeners (Client Side programming in ADF Faces Rich Client Components Part 2)
January 4, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In this second part of a series on ADF 11g Rich Faces Client Programming, I will talk about the option to include JavaScript in a PPR response, to execute …
Client Side programming in ADF Faces Rich Client Components
January 3, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Really cool, Web 2.0, AJAX powered JSF applications are inconceivable without substantial use of JavaScript. Whether or not the Java developers like it, it is a fact of life. …
Accessing Google Calendar from Oracle ADF Application – Displaying Events in Gantt Chart
January 1, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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 Google Calendar (http://www.google.com/calendar) is one of the many services offered by Google. It allows users to manage a personal or shared agenda on line, from the comfort of their …
APEX and/or ADF – demonstrating two similar yet different applications – part 3 – the implementation in ADF
December 24, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In a previous article, I showed two versions of more or less the same application. One created in APEX by Dimitri Gielis, the other built using ADF and JHeadstart …
APEX and/or ADF – demonstrating two similar yet different applications – part 2
December 24, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Showing both APEX and ADF and giving the audience some inkling as to there similarities and their differences – what is the best way of doing that? Well, one …
The Christmas Present has arrived: the Oracle 11g Fusion Middleware technology preview
December 23, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA
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It was promised at Oracle Open World by Thomas Kurian, just over a month ago. And now Oracle delivers on that promise: the Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Preview at …
APEX and/or ADF – demonstrating two similar yet different applications
December 23, 2007
Database, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, PL/SQL
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Last Monday, we organized an AMIS Query on APEX and ADF. Dimitri Gielis, APEX specialist, joined us and presented his ideas on APEX. I took on the role as …
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 4: Business people and developers must work together daily throughout the project.
December 19, 2007
AMIS, IT, Project Management, Software Development, Software Engineering
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This is the fourth 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 …
APEX contra ADF?
Pushing to the bank holidays, trying to get rid of the piles of work before I / we start a new year, I would almost forget to thank Dimitri …
Using a rich editor in ADF applications
December 14, 2007
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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About a year ago Frank Nimphius wrote this weblog article about using a rich text editor called openWYSIWYG in ADF applications. Recently we encountered the need for such an …
How to implement Amazon webservice in ADF
December 10, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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This article demonstrates how to build an ADF application on top of the Amazon WebServices for searching books. 1. Start jdeveloper 10.1.3. 2.0(or newer) 2. Build a new Application Application name: AmazonWebservice …
SQL in Java: To batch or not to batch with Oracle JDBC
Last week I had to parse thousands of sql insert statements, read from files (one file per table), within a Java environment. These files contain complete SQL insert statements, …
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 3: Deliver working software frequently
December 2, 2007
AMIS, IT, Project Management, Software Development, Software Engineering
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This is the third 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 …
Custom authentication in Apex (part 1)
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Another word for authentication is acces control. Authentication is the mechanism to verify the user’s identity and provide access to a system or application based on the credentials entered …
and now we present… 11g and Apex on Ubuntu
Thanks to a completed messed-up Windows (I managed to demolish my network connections beyond repair) and a helpful tutorial from Dizwell’s blog (thank you oh so very much!) I …
KC "Kennismaken met Application Express" – Presentation available for download
On Thursday the 22nd of November 2007 Patrick Sinke and I did a presentation and a small workshop about Oracle Application Express. We gave an introduction of this Oracle …
Integrating Seam with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish
November 23, 2007
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web/Java
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The application that resulted from my previous article on Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish uses Hibernate for JPA and Facelets for JSF. This is an ideal situation to make the …
Combining Hibernate and Facelets with Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish
November 21, 2007
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Over the past weeks I have been exploring the possibilities of Maven, Netbeans and GlassFish. Two of my previous blog entries explain the basics of using Maven in Netbeans …
Opening and extracting Zip files in java – It’s there for a while, but I just found out
A while ago I found out that it was possible to open Zip files with Java. Just open a regular java.io.File and pass it to the java.util.zip.ZipFile constructor. It …
ADF Faces 11g: Reloading the Matrix – using the Pivot Table component
November 18, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In the past months I have written several times about the Matrix component I developed for ADF Faces to be used in several of our projects. Yesterday I demonstrated …
Personalizing ADF Applications through User Preferences
November 15, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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While of course the applications we build using ADF Faces technology are perfect and cater optimally to every end user’s needs, some end users seem to disagree. Even though …
Maven based configuration management with automatic build number
An important questions in software deployment and testing is “What is the version of the software I am looking at”. It is frustrating for a tester or an end …
JDeveloper 11g – Declarative Components – Rapid, No Programming Composition of custom JSF components
November 14, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In my current ADF Faces (10.1.3) project, I have created several custom JSF components. These components combine chunks of recurring page structure content. By using custom components, I can …
Adding Table Row Highlighting to ADF Faces pages
November 12, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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End users of web applications like clarity. They want to know where they are in a page, what the current context of information and their actions is. Next to …
Enhance the web page look & feel and behavior after it has been loaded – attach onLoad Event Listeners during load
Many web applications are rendered by HTML rendering frameworks and technologies such as JSP, JSF, PHP, .NET etc. In such technology stacks, it is common to make use of …
Building Real Life ADF Applications – Meeting the team during the OOW 2007 Presentation (Thursday, S290737, 4pm, Moscone South 300)
We need to learn an awful lot for productively developing good looking, robust ADF applications. And the best lessons learned are learned by experience. However, it does not necessarily …
Compile and invoke your webservice client (generated by XFire) in a running JVM
Generating XFire client files isn’t that special, but with Java 6 it is possible to compile those files immediately and invoke the webservice within one application. When I told …
Integrating JAD decompiler into JDeveloper
In JDeveloper, when debugging or otherwise navigating to classes that JDeveloper does not have the source code for, JDeveloper generates a "stub source", showing you only the fields and …
You want to build it with ADF, but you do not want it to look like ADF. What do you do? (come to S290737 during OOW2007)
Well, at the very least come to my presentation Building Real Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) Applications: A Learning Experience at OOW next week: S290737, Thursday 4.00pm (Moscone …
JHeadstart ADF Generation with Custom Templates – using custom properties when none are available
November 6, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Most our ADF application is generated. For many reasons, including an easier upgrade to 11g later on. That means a lot of fiddling with custom generator templates – the …
ADF Table – Toggle for Show All/Show First Batch – interaction designer taking over
ADF applications are fun to develop. And some challenges make it even more fun. Our challenge is our Interaction Designer who, together with the end user board, comes up …
ADF – Implement a 'Delete this record' icon (action) in an ADF Table
November 4, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Web HTML5 CSS3
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As I may have mentioned previously on this blog, I am currently involved in a somewhat challenging ADF project. We are using JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 and JHeadstart 10.1.3.2 for the …
Deploying to GlassFish using Maven2
Yesterday I wrote an article about Building Enterprise Applications for GlassFish using Netbeans 6.0 (Beta 2) and Maven2. The article explains how to setup your Netbeans projects to be …