Category: Software Development
No matter how fancy the application you develop, no matter how sophisticated the user interfaces: end users will always clamor for Excel. All data eventually will end up in …
Sometimes you are writing some codes and things really come together well. Let’s imagine, you are writing a little tool in ApEx for registering hours on a project. The …
Being able to generate our ADF Web Applications is a fine thing. JHeadstart can really get us a long way with our application. However, in most situations, JHeadstart will …
Last week I participated in a ADF workshop given at AMIS by Peter Ebell and Lucas Jellema. "I followed a similar workshop almost 2 years ago. Back then it was …
A few days ago, the Oracle JHeadstart team released the 10.1.3.1 release. It was announced as ‘a point release’ but it turns out to offer a substantial chunk of …
A point release for JHeadstart has been made available by the Oracle JHeadstart team. For a point release, it has a surprisingly long list of new features. Among the …
JSF has in built in facility for templating, apart from the subview component. And the Subview does not give us the kind of push-style templating that has us define …
I know, it’s a little bit of an aggressive statement, but if you think about it, it gets to you… Regarding performance and “best practices”. Let’s do this, a …
This is the second in a series of three posts. The goal of these posts is to outline an automated build procedure for Oracle’s SOA Order Booking demo application …
In the latest SOA Suite release Oracle has improved the automated build capabilities. Instead of the Oracle BPEL specific Ant tool (obant, a customized version of Ant) plain vanilla …
A few weeks ago one of my customers told me that he lost a sales opportunity because the customer who he was trying to sell his software too had …
Somewhat akin to the dbms_advanced_rewrite package application I discussed some time ago, I have now another piece of functionality that will make you once again the light of the …
Assume you have a table with contaminated data (in this example: non-unique values on col1 and col2), for instance because no unique key was implemented. col1 col2 value 2 …
A quite common concept in many programming langiages, though perhaps strongest in Java, is the String Tokenizer. This is a utility class or function that takes a String as …
After receiving a new, pretty powerful laptop, on Thursday and installing the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition on Friday, this weekend sees my first steps with the BI Publisher (previously …
The Spring DataBinder is not only useful to bind request parameters, you can also use the DataBinder on other parameters, like command line arguments, JSON objects coming from an …
This problem probably sounds very easy and it is actually very easy, but it took me so long to figure this out I think it’s worth a blog. I’ll …
I wanted to find out how ‘big’ the new Oracle EBS 12i release really is. So, I downloaded the software from Edelivery and created a stage area. From the …
Recently, I was working on an Forms application that required a Form to retrieve and complete a Human Workflow task from the worklist of a BPEL 10.1.3 server (also …
Yesterday we received the 10.1.3.2 release of JDeveloper, with the WebCenter design time; today we are presented with the WebServer Suite (Server) as well. Download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/101310.html :
A very small article on a very trivial issue. I have a page with a Master-Detail construction with a (master) Table of Departments and a (detail) Table of Employees. …
Looking through the list of new features for JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 yesterday I suddenly noticed a feature that was not new at all, but that had so far escaped my …
One of the interesting new features that come along with WebCenter in JDeveloper 10.1.3.2, but hopefully are not necessarily part of WebCenter (licence) is the set of Customizable Components: …
It was hard to miss yesterday as weblogs around the world – just like telex machines in the old days – started ticking and buzzing: JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 is released! …
One picture speaks more than a thousand words (a pity for someone as verbally skilled and graphically challenged as myself). However, for once, I will try to let the …
The best thing after sliced bread has reached a new milestone, version 1.0. Firebug is a great tool for HTML, DOM and especially Javascript. A lot of people from …
I am not sure yet whether I have been really clever or am suffering from a twisted mind. In this article I present a grantedly farfetched approach for invoking …
Why Oracle Forms and BPEL? Old style Forms applications normally don’t hold much workflow functionality. Sure there is an order in which the forms should be used. The workflow …
November 2006 saw the announcement by ICEsoft that their ICEfaces library of JSF components was being released under an open source license. This basically means that a lot of …
Those who use Maven for their project may be happy to hear that a Maven repository for the Java EE 5 APIs has been opened. For more info, see …
One of the components in the ADF Faces library you may not make use of on a daily base is the . In this article, I will give you …
For a customer with an interesting business we had to build a web application that has a RIA front end, displays data on maps, authenticates thru a web service …
It would be nice to have your own company logo as background in the Oracle E-business suite. Default the background is white, but the following steps will put your …
Every developer must have those moments when you feel you are completely stuck with some problem. You feel like you are never going to solve the issue at hand. …
For one of the projects I was recently involved in, we had to implement JAAS based authentication & authorization for our JSF Web Application, and we wanted to base …
In keeping with a short tradition, today is another day during my Christmas break on which I had some time to dabble in Java Server Faces and particularly the …
Selection components, such as Radio Buttons. Dropdown-lists, Lists, Shuttles and Check Boxes, are key elements of many a web page. Java Server Faces has a pretty wide range of …
In this article on bind parameter usage in ADF Business Components, we will discuss a feature that I recently found out about and that I think offers a lot …
In several previous posts – and some articles yet to be published – I discuss the development of new JSF Components. Of course the true potential of such components …
The SUN Reference Implementation of Java Server Faces has a limited number of Validators. The framework has plenty support for creation and integration of custom validators. It does not …