Category: Software Development
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
The past days have been really interesting. During last Wednesday (november 24) we finished the XML topic, covering Generating XML from an Oracle Database, Managing XML data in an Oracle Database, …
With patch set 10.1.3.3 of its SOA Suite Oracle introduced standard fault handling functionality for BPEL. This Error Hospital framework allows the definition of policies for handling runtime exceptions, …
For one of my current ADF projects, the customer has asked for a Rich Text Editor – to allow the end user to easily edit Email-messages that are sent …
Yesterday I attended the Battle of the Geeks. It was hosted by Finalist at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. There were four presentations about different subjects. CMS Container, …
I know it’s kind of wrong to test private methods and there are a lot of articles and books that will explain you why. But sometimes you have an …
One of our ADF projects has a customer determined to develop an application with a modern, appealing user interface. To that end, they hired a User Interaction Designer, who …
Some time ago I’ve been experimenting with the Apex 3.0 feature that migrates entire Access applications to Application Express. It took me a lot of time because I found …
GlassFish is the first open source application server to have implemented the JEE specification. Basically it is the open source version of Sun Java System Application server. Last night …
In this article I will explain how to minify all your .js and .css files automatically with a servlet filter. This means you only have to define a servlet …
This week Patrick Sinke and I attended the first edition of the European Application Express Training (EAET). With only a few months of experience with Oracle Application Express (APEX) …
Today I was configuring a message driven bean to listen to an AQ queue. The tutorials and examples I found had me create the queue like this: dbms_aqadm.create_queue_table( queue_table=>'MY_QUEUE_TABLE' …
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