Category: Software Development
A rather interesting session took place last week during OOW 2006, away from the crowds in a small meeting room in the Mariott hotel. The group that assembled there …
"We can learn from SAPs lessons learned" was one of the justifications for working with IDS Scheer on BPM. BPM includes a set of activites that organizations perform to …
I just came out of – well actually, as I am writing this down I am still in it – a very good session on the Oracle JDBC drivers …
One of the themes regularly stressed during the Oracle Develop event (part of Oracle Open World 2006) is Oracle’s key interest in and support for the Spring Framework. Oracle …
One of the intriguing products in the Oracle Portfolio is Oracle BAM (Business Activity Monitoring). I have been trying to see it in action, learn more about and actually …
Yesterday during the Regional Directors for Oracle Fusion Middleware meeting I got a preview and demonstration of what is called the Oracle Developer Depot or odd for short as …
Last night we had the annual Oracle ACEs dinner at a very nice San Francisco restaurant. The food and wine were excellent, but the company even more inspiring. I …
I do not like the P word. Oracle Portal has never quite enthralled me like some or rather many other products from Big Red have. But I think I …
Building applications in our corner of the world typically revolves around databases. The most important bit about an application is not the application, but rather the data it creates …
The Whoops experience again. While preparing demos for OOW 2006, I did one update – or rather one commit – too many. I had assigned all employees to the …
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, …
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 …
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? …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Apparently it is still out there, the RBO in 10g. I saw the following post of Eric Jenkinson in a OTN forum...
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …