Category: Software Development
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 without X-terminal In the webforms world you it is not uncommon to compile a webforms application on a linux/unix application server, after …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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) Last June, I held a presentation at the ODTUG conference in Washington DC “Oracle Forms: Productivity with new choicesâ€. During this …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …