OptimalJ tutorial for dummies
In this blog I’ll explain how easy it is to create an application with OptimalJ. For those people who want to learn more about MDA and other MDA tools, …
Category: Software Development
Starting a BPEL process instance according to a timed schedule in Oracle BPEL PM
Process instances in the Oracle BPEL PM can be initiated in a number of ways. Some are passive – the BPEL engine receives a call and as a result …
Oracle SOA Suite 10g Release 3 (10.1.3.1.0) Released! Go to OTN for download
It is a good day for the Oracle products availability – would the upcoming Open World conference starting on Sunday in San Francisco have anything to do with this? …
Connecting to an EJB 3.0 Remote SessionBean from Tomcat
At home I have a few machines running several services that have my interest: an Apache HTTPD server, Tomcat 5.5 and Oracle XE. Both Apache and Tomcat run on …
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3.1.0 has just been released on OTN
The 10.1.3.1.0 release of JDeveloper just hit OTN. You can download it at http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/index.html. The most spectacular changes in this releases are the built in support for the SOA …
Downgrading an Oracle JDeveloper extension – reverting upgrade of JHeadstart plugin
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 has a fairly advanced – Eclipse like – mechanism for installing and upgrading plugins or extensions as they are called in JDeveloper lingo. Recently, I decided …
EJB 3.0 Java Persistence API – "Refresh After Insert": Using EntityListeners to absorb the effects from Database Triggers
While preparing an article for JDJ as well as a presentation for Oracle Open World next week, I finally got round to finding a proper solution for a challenge …
Testing i18n features of JSF applications – Forcing a refresh of the Resource Bundle(s)
October 14, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Internationalization, multi-linguality, NLS support for JSF applications – or any Java powered application for that matter – is an important topic. And Resource Bundles are the way to deal …
Rule based in Oracle 10g
October 12, 2006
AMIS, Announce / Events, Database, DBA Oracle, IT, Oracle, Software Development
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Apparently it is still out there, the RBO in 10g. I saw the following post of Eric Jenkinson in a OTN forum...
Extract Domain Definitions from Oracle Designer for use in JHeadstart
I am currently involved in the migration of a pretty substantial application, developed with Oracle Designer’s Web Server Generator, to the Oracle ADF technology stack, using JHeadstart. You know …
JHeadstart 10.1.3 Evaluation Copy available! – Everybody can now try out JHeadstart for ADF Faces
October 10, 2006
Announce / Events, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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I have just found the JHeadstart 10..1.3 Evaluation Copy on OTN. See JHeadstart’s homepage: http://www.oracle.com/technology/consulting/9iServices/JHeadstart.html. This trial software is fully functional and will function for an unlimited period of …
JHeadstart 10.1.3 – Generating InputTextHyperlink items – a generic custom generator template
One of the big new things in JHeadstart 10.1.3 for ADF Faces undoubtedly is the very rich support for custom templates. We can use custom templates to extend, complement …
ADF Faces: The InputTextHyperlink Component
Many pages developed with ADF Faces will contain items that represent hyperlinks. The user can enter a URL in such items and submit the value. However, the contents of …
Steve Muench publishes tutorial for JHeadstart 10.1.3 for ADF Faces
Steve Muench has published the 10.1.3 version of his JHeadstart tutorial at: Building Enterprise JSF Applications with Oracle JHeadstart for ADF (10.1.3) – A step-by-step, end-to-end tutorial on how …
Unit testing with XFire – How to test your SOAP server with a WSDL file
XFire is a java SOAP framework. Of course there is Axis, but I think XFire can replace Axis. Axis is quite a good framework, but I think XFire is …
Inspecting the default database under Oracle BPEL Process Manager – Querying Tasks & Processes
Oracle BPEL Process Manager has its ‘dehydration’ store where details for BPEL process instances as well as human workflows are recorded. Access to the data in the BPEL PM …
Quality Check for Domains in Oracle Designer – fighting problematic AVCON check constraints
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One of the things that you never expect to go wrong will of course go wrong anyway, as I experienced today at one of my customers’ sites. We ran …
Using Object Libraries for advanced Oracle Designer Form Generation – adding popup menus to all updateable text items
For the past four weeks, AMIS has been host to the Oracle Discovery, a training program – some might say a boot camp – for nine junior Oracle developers, …
Free beer and Java talk
As can be read on the weblog of Alef Arendsen, Interface 21 organizes a Java Meetup in Amsterdam. This meetup will take place on Friday, September 29. Tomorrow at …
Extending the JHeadstart 10.1.3 Application Generator using Custom Templates – Generate Table Overflow Style: Bubble
JHeadstart 10.1.3 has several new features, a whole new architecture and support for ADF Faces. One of the most interesting new concepts is the notion of the Custom Templates, …
Integrating ADF Faces and MyFaces Tomahawk – Creating a Popup with ADF Faces Shuttle Component
September 22, 2006
Continuous Delivery, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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One of the promises of Java Server Faces is the ability for developers to use a rich mix of UI Components from different libraries and vendors. You may pick …
Changing the order of columns in a JSF Table Component -in the client, at run-time, by the end user
The Rich UI components (see ADF Faces Rich Client Components – Marrying JSF and AJAX together) that the ADF Faces library will contain with the JDeveloper 11g release – …
Testing Knowledge of Database Performance – Is this a good Execution Plan?
Database Performance Analysis and Tuning of queries and Database Design have never been my specialty. As of late, I have been reading a lot in this area, on Wait …
Many useful sessions on Application Development in the Oracle DEVELOP track at Oracle Open World 2006
I will go to Oracle Open World this year. The last time I visited the real OOW – not the European or Australian version that I attended in the …
Having the end-user hide and display columns in a JSF Table Component
Yesterday I was discussing the migration of a Web PL/SQL based application to the Oracle ADF Technology Stack, most particularly to Java Server Faces. One interesting feature the customer …
AMIS Query – JHeadstart – Launch of 10.1.3 and celebrating 5 years of JHeadstart
Last week we hosted the umpthieth AMIS Query – our series of Technical Seminars on Oracle and Java related subjects – with over 60 visitors. We always try to …
Spring 2.0 in Oracle JDeveloper
On Oracle OTN Shay Shmeltzer has written an article that explains how to use the Spring framework within JDeveloper and how to best setup JDeveloper for Spring 2.0. Interface21 …
ApEx 2.2 released
Oracle just released ApEx version 2.2. Here is the list of changes. Most of the changes do not come as a surprise as they were already mentioned in the …
Meta Data Driven User Interface with Dojo and Spring MVC
What I mean with a meta data driven user interface is an application whose appearance and behavior is managed by a special set of data that is stored in …
The UNKNOWN null.
We all are at least a bit aware of the awkward behaviour of NULL in Oracle. But it still is difficult every time we encounter it in a function …
Search ADF Faces Tree – show only nodes satisfying Query Criteria
We are still refining and enriching our ADF Faces application and in particular the Tree based pages. One of the more advanced user requests we have to deal with, …
Article Introducing JHeadstart 10.1.3 for ADF Faces (Dutch)
We just published an article on JHeadstart 10.1.3, written for the Dutch Oracle Developer’s Magazine Optimize – the September issue. The article gives an overview of the most important …
Oracle SOA Suite Developer Preview (10.1.3.1.0) available for download
I just learned that the Oracle SOA Suite is available for download at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/soapreview.html This download – a mere 560 Mb- provides us with a preview of number of …
Programmatic Client Side Activation of JSF Components
The issue is the following: my web application is riddled with buttons and hyperlinks – things the end user can click on in order to start actions: submit a …
Expand tree node all the way down in the ADF Faces Tree Component
We are still very much busy developing our ADF Faces application around the Tree Component. In previous articles we have discussed creating the tree in the first place, using …
JHeadstart 10.1.3 Production Release with ADF Faces support is available!
After a fairly long wait – and experimenting with Beta drops since May 2006 – we have just received word that the JHeadstart 10.1.3 Production Release is available. That …
Generating an Advanced ADF Faces Tree based application with JHeadstart 10.1.3
You may not be able to see the forest for all the trees I have been discussing lately. We are running a substantial project with the latest technology: ADF …
Creating Multi-Type Node Children and Child Node labels in ADF Faces Tree Component
As you may have gathered from some recent posts, we are in the process of developing an ADF Faces/ADF Business Components application in a project for one of the …
Using an Oracle database link to connect to Excel
August 4, 2006
Data Warehousing & BI, Database, Databases, Development Tools, Oracle, PL/SQL
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Recently I had to extract data from 5 Access databases and 4 Excel files and merge the data into an Oracle table. One method was to export the data from Access to Oracle via …
Create Child Nodes in ADF Faces Tree generated with JHeadstart
One of the key user interface components for our recently started ADF Faces/JHeadstart project is a Tree. The data we are dealing with has a nested structured with items …