Oracle Warehouse Builder
Wauw! What a great presentation about Oracle Warehouse Builder tonight! At the end of the evening the presenter, Raymond de Vries, told me: ‘it was my first presentation for …
Category: Software Development
Fixing the ADF Faces Tree Model Binding – Leaf Nodes without Folder Icon
Some of my past writings on this blog were on ADF Faces and more specifically on the ADF Faces Tree component. When bound to an ADF Data Control, the …
Building an ADF Faces Tree Component with mixed (DEPT and EMP) nodes in 5 minutes using JHeadstart 10.1.3
For a project we are currently executing at AMIS, using the Oracle ADF, with ADF BC, Binding and Faces as well as JHeadstart 10.1.3 (currently in beta), the need …
The OpenOffice.org presentation I gave at J-Spring 2006
On June 15, 2006, the Netherlands Java Users Group (NL-JUG) organised the J-Spring 2006 Java Conference. During this conference I gave a presentation about the OpenOffice.org Java API. Have …
Creating a dynamic (AJAX) Column Footer Summary in a Table Component using ADF Faces
One fairly common requirement for web applications is the display of Summary fields with calculated values. An obvious example is a table of multiple records with column-summaries appearing underneath …
Show lookup details in popup (dialog) window using ADF Faces & JHeadstart 10.1.3
This article describes how to implement simple popup (dialog) windows with (lookup) details for specific fields in our web application. The application we discuss is based on ADF Faces …
Introduction to SOA, BPEL and Oracle BPEL PM through a real life business case (Dutch white paper)
We @ AMIS have been busying ourselves with Oracle BPEL in specific and SOA in general for quite some time now. Oracle BPEL PM was launched in our organisation …
One Analytic Function can do more than a thousand lines of code…
My colleague Alex Nuijten did a very fine presentation on Oracle Analytical Functions during the recent ODTUG 2006 conference in Washington DC. His paper for this conference was nominated …
Getting started with Lucene 2.0 A powerful java search engine
July 23, 2006
Databases, Java, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java, XML
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Lucene is a text search engine written in Java. It’s very easy to use (for both developers and users) and fast. The creator of Lucene (Doug Cutting) started with …
Connecting to a webservice from an ADF application using JDeveloper 10.1.2
In the Netherlands, the addresses of houses are uniquely defined by their postal code and house number (is this correct English?). One of our customers wanted to have the …
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part III : starting OpenOffice.org with jars not in the OOo install dir
One of the first things OOo developers learn is to make sure the juh.jar, jurt.jar, ridl.jar, sandbox.jar and unoil.jar files should be on the classpath and should be in …
Automatic continuous compilation of webforms on linux/unix
July 19, 2006
AMIS, DBA Oracle, Development Tools, Oracle, Software Development, Software Engineering
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Automatic continuous compilation of webforms on linux without X-terminal In the webforms world you it is not uncommon to compile a webforms application on a linux/unix application server, after …
Mastering EJB3.0 – Free PDF Book Download
July 18, 2006
Databases, IT, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Tools, Web/Java
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Theserverside is offering a free copy of Mastering EJB3.0. Published in July 2006, the best selling book Mastering EJB is now in its fourth edition and has been updated …
Maven2 and JDeveloper
Maven is a great tool for project automation. It provides build in tasks (like ant) for all the standard java project lifecycles, like build, test, package, documentation etc. One …
Programmatically Accessing the Oracle BPEL PM Workflow Tasklist from Java Applications
An essential part of many BPEL processes are the ‘humanual’ steps – process steps that involve inter-human communication, system-bridging actions, decision making, approval and fuzzy logic based operations that …
Programmatically Querying the status of BPEL process-instances
During a recent presentation I did on the NL-JUG J-Spring Conference (the Dutch Java User Group) on the interaction between Oracle BPEL PM and Java applications, I got asked …
Configuring a (Oracle) datasource on Glassfish
With Java EE 5 being final, application servers need to be upgraded to support features like EJB 3.0. In some cases, loading the Java EE 5 jars may be …
Invoking HTTP Services from Oracle BPEL PM – SOA enabling PHP, Servlets, RSS,…
We live in a service oriented world. Or we will do so in the very near future. Services are all around us. And mind you: services not just as …
The Bible for ADF Developers – Best Practices, Guidelines, How-to’s: the works!
Steve Muench is known as ADF Evangelist, spreading the Gospel from some wonderful location near the Mediterraneum, writing undocumented samples for advanced and usually essential pieces of functionality in …
Sleeping with the enemy: .Net at the 2006 ODTUG conference
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From June 17th until June 21st I attended the ODTUG conference in Washington DC. I focused mainly on .Net and Apex. In Holland quite a few customers are moving …
Demo application advanced Forms features (ODTUG 2006 version)
Demo application advanced Forms features (ODTUG 2006 version) Last June, I held a presentation at the ODTUG conference in Washington DC “Oracle Forms: Productivity with new choicesâ€. During this …
ODTUG 2006 Conference Handouts/Presentations available
June 30, 2006
Data Warehousing & BI, Database, Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL
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Last night, the ODTUG 2006 Conference Committee announced that all handouts and presentations from this year’s (well, in fact that is last week’s) conference are available for download from …
ODTUG 2006 – Overview – KC Oracle Development Tools
Donderdag 29 juni presenteerden Alex, Aino, Matthieu en Lucas over hun belevenissen tijdens ODTUG 2006. Hun verhalen liggen vast in een dozijn weblog-artikelen en worden verder ondersteund door de …
ADF security (ODTUG 2006)
Being a major important technology for Oracle, many presentations on this year’s ODTUG conference covered ADF. The showcase, the demonstration of the forthcoming AJAX enabled ADF Faces, has been …
Unittesting PL/SQL (ODTUG 2006)
For me, one of the highlights of this year’s ODTUG conference was the presentation of Steven Feuerstein about PL/SQL unittesting, “Six simple steps to unit testing happiness“. While unittesting …
Using Lucene with Spring Introduction to Spring Modules
June 26, 2006
Databases, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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While preparing a Lucene presentation and workshop I came across Spring Modules. It’s a small set of libraries that does things the Spring-way. It isn’t included in Spring because …
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part II : some basic Writer operations
OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. Despite several small issues, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is capable of opening, modifying and saving Microsoft Office …
Getting started with the OpenOffice.org API part I : connecting to OpenOffice.org
OpenOffice.org is an open source office suite available for Windows, Mac, Linux and Unix. Despite several small issues, OpenOffice.org (OOo) is capable of opening, modifying and saving Microsoft Office …
ADF Faces Rich Client Components – Marrying JSF and AJAX together
AJAX allows for Rich Client Applications on top of standard HTML based Internet technologies. Programming AJAX can be messy and complex. JavaScript libraries like DOJO and BackBase have improved …
Modify Spring Beans and Log4j levels on a running server with JMX and JConsole
JMX (Java Management Extensions) is around for quite a while. But since Java 1.5 the JDK is bundled with JConsole, a JMX client, which will hopefully boost the popularity …
Great Presentation on migrating Oracle Forms to ADF Faces at ODTUG 2006
The title of this article is hugely misleading. Or somewhat at least. The presentation has to take place yet. And it is my own – so how great can …
Verslag van SpringOne
Op 15 en 16 juni vond in Antwerpen de SpringOne conferentie plaats. Dit event bestond uit vier keynotes, zes zogenaamde university talks, veertig (parallelle) presentaties en 48 sprekers. Dit …
Meeting people at J-Spring
On Thursday, June 15, the Netherlands Java Users Group (NL-JUG) organised the first of two yearly meetings, this one called J-Spring. I had the privilage to do a presentation …
Verslag van JSpring 2006
June 16, 2006
AMIS, Databases, IT, Java, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, XML
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JSpring vond net als JFall van afgelopen jaar weer plaats in de Reehorst in Ede, een mooie locatie en vooral goed bereikbaar met de auto. Er stonden weer diverse …
Printf and scanf in java new String formatting features in Java 1.5
printf is probably the best known function in C. I did some programming in C and I didn’t really like it (because I started with C after quite some …
Latest book-shipment – straight from NL-JUG Java Conference
Today I ordered, paid, packaged and shipped myself from the bookstore at the NL-JUG Java Conference the following interesting box of 13 books (and got one free as well …
Integration between Java and Oracle BPEL PM – What every Java developer should know about BPEL
Today, I will be presenting and most of all demonstrating, on Oracle BPEL PM and Java for the Dutch Java User Group’s Spring Conference (NL-JUG J-Spring 2006): My abstract …
ADF Faces for MyFaces is now called Trinidad
June 12, 2006
Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Earlier this year Oracle donated their JSF UI components from ADF Faces to the Apache Software Foundation. Since ADF is more than a set of UI components it was …
Oracle BPEL PM – Invoking a (remote) BPEL Service from Java using RMI
Next Thursday, June 15th, I will present on the Dutch Java User Group Conference, on the integration between Java on the one hand and BPEL (specifically Oracle BPEL PM) …
The Belgians beat us again…
A great example based on APEX was posted by Dimitri Gielis. See http://wc2006.shellprompt.net for the FIFA world Cup 2006 apex example. Chapeau Dimitri!