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 …
Category: Software Development
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
Oracle, Development Tools, IT, Java, 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!
Building a Route Planner with Oracle SQL – Finding the quickest route in a graph
Routeplanners have always been somewhat magical in my eyes. Finding the quickest route from A to B in a graph of thousands of points and connections. I have tried …
Free "1000 Java Tips" book
A free book, titled 1000 Java Tips can be found at http://javafaq.nu/java/advert/index.shtml. It is claimed that after reading you will improve your skills and raise your salary.
The (AJA)X Files – On the built-in AJAX facilities of ADF Faces for zero-code Rich User Experience
Any article discussing AJAX is currently an instant hit. Articles talking about JSF (Java Server Faces) are also pretty hot. So the combination must drive the number of reads …
IN or EXIST or doesn’t it matter
In my previous post about package constants I mentioned the application I am working on right now. They gave me the task to speed up the application since performance …
New Book Shipment is in – recent titles on Web, Java and Oracle
Our monthly book-shipment just arrived and I am playing Santa Claus right now by handing out books to some eager colleagues. The list of titles we received this month …
Map Adventures with Google, Oracle and Spring
In summer 2000 I started in the Field Service development team of Oracle’s eBusiness Suite (http://www.oracle.com/applications/service/srvonl_cont.html). The web form Dispatch Center contains four Java applets. One of them is …
Wrong use of constant packages
On my recent project we have a large package holding constants values. From a design point of view this is a very elegant solution because this way the constants …
Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) – A First Impression (and it's not bad at all!)
You never get a second chance for a first impression, the shampoo ad warns us. So every software vendor is likely to be a little nervous about showing a …
JavaOne 2006 has started – get the hand-outs for the presentations now
Even when you are not in San Fransisco right now, JavaOne2006 will be on your mind somehow. Or if it is not, as a Java Developer it probably should …
ESB – the new Oracle InterConnect
Today I attended a very nice workshop at Oracle Netherlands where some Oracle Partners could get acquainted with the beta 10.1.3 release of the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).
Advanced Javascript debugging with FireBug and analyzing your page with View Source Chart
FireBug is a debug tool that integrates with FireFox. You can change the DOM-tree, do logging, analyze AJAX-traffic, have advanced error reporting and probably some things I haven’t found …
Oracle Toplink goes open source – launch of the Community Edition
I just noticed the Toplink Essentials JPA (java Persistence API or EJB 3.0 Persistence) homepage on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/toplink/jpa/index.html . As you probably already know, Oracle has open sourced a …
Installing Oracle Grid Control 10 release 2 on SuSE 9.3 ES
With all those fancy plug-ins for Microsoft tools release 2 of Oracle Grid Control 10g seems to be a must-have. However, according to many postings on the internet, installation …
It's a Chameleon! About JSF Pages that change their appearance mid-flight (or: programmatic manipulation of JSF UI Components)
One of the features in Java Server Faces that distinguishes it from for example JSP technology, is the ability to access UI Components programmatically, at run-time. This makes it …
Workshop on EJB 3.0 Persistence – Download Resources
Yesterday we had a very enjoyable and I think interesting workshop on EJB 3.0 Persistence. After a very nice dinner on our terrace – it was lovely weather – …
AJAX validation with Spring without changing any java-code
Recent changes in the EJB 3.0 Persistence specification (that invalidated my code)
While preparing for a workshop on the EJB 3.0 Persistence API that I will present later today, I decided – against all the instructions in demo-school and presentation-college – …
Oracle releases the UIX to ADF Faces migration utility
It was promised and now it has been delivered: The Oracle UIX 2.2 Migration Tool allows you to migrate a project built using Oracle ADF UIX to use Oracle …
Generating PDFs from ADF Business Components View Object datasets using XSQL
In the projects we do, we very often encounter the requirement for generating PDF documents containing data or reports from a database. We usually meet this requirement by creating …
Joyful Successor to Forms – Introduction to JSF (Java Server Faces) and ADF Faces
May 4, 2006
Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Developing Web Applications using Java/J2EE technology has not been a picnic over the last few years. It was often hard work, complex, not very productive and the results were …
Writing your own Eclipse plugin: How to show the blog headlines in Eclipse
Writing a plugin for Eclipse sounds scary and difficult. A few years ago I had to do a project with some other students for school. The project was writing …
Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
Introduction MDA stands for Model Driven Architecture. It is a framework from the Object Management Group (OMG). The basic idea about MDA is to generate code from visual UML …
On returning a collection of user defined objects from PL/SQL to Java – shortcut using a sys_refcursor
Oracle 8.0 introduced Objects into the Oracle database, back in 1996. There has been a lot of ridicule for the OO features in the Oracle database, some of it …
Resizing images in Java using Java2D
Last friday a customer asked us if we knew how to resize images in java. Their clients are uploading images that need to be resized automatically. In the past …
Software Deploying using ANT
Some time ago a customer of AMIS asked me to setup the automatic deployment of the software for their application. Till then this was done manually, took an awful …
Better Builds With Maven – Free book about Maven 2
April 27, 2006
Book reviews and Publications, IT, Java, Software Engineering, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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When I was browsing through some articles on JRoller I found this interesting free book. As far as I know this is the first book about Maven 2. There …
Parsing RSS and Atom with ROME, easier is impossible
ROME is a java library to do things with RSS and Atom feeds. Things can be reading, writing, merging and converting. Because RSS and Atom feeds are a standard …
On Web 2.0, RIA, AJAX and Java Server Faces – 2 May 2006: Presentation and Demonstration by Backbase (16.30 Nieuwegein)
Who is not raving about Web 2.0, the advent of Rich Internet Applications, the marvels of AJAX and of course the wonderful, productive world of Java Web application development …
JDBC Rowset
Do you still think the only way to retrieve data from the database is to use the java.sql.ResultSet? Try the new (hum) javax.sql.RowSet. One of the coolest features is …
The Next Value – How much higher is my salary than the next in (Dense) Rank – Oracle Analytical Functions
It is not terribly important. But since I found the solution, I thought I’d share it with you anyway. During our Oracle 7Up workshop on SQL last week we …