Category: Software Development
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 …
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.
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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).
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 – …
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 – …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
My first experience with BPEL was late 2004 using the Oracle BPEL PM and Designer plugin for Eclipse. Afterwards, I have worked primarily with the Oracle JDeveloper BPEL Designer …
Every once in a while you run into a SQL challenge that seems extremely simple at first glance and turns out to be not so very simple when you …
Query Rewrite is an increasingly more important feature of the Oracle database. Linked intimately to Materialized Views, Query Rewrite is used by the CBO to make queries leverage intermediate …
Op 15 en 16 juni aanstaande wordt de SpringOne conferentie gehouden in Antwerpen. Dit is de eerste Europese conferentie die specifiek op het Spring Framework betrekking heeft. Het evenement …
Oracle and resilvering data on Mirrored Logical Volumes on AIX How to set up your storage with regards to Mirror Write Consistency Suppose you have or plan to implement an …
When you startup JDeveloper, default it gives you a “Tip of the day”. I always enjoy reading these tips and I would like to share this one with you:
In preparation for the Oracle 7Up Workshop as well as the Oracle Quiz – The Water is Still Burning (presentation and paper) with Alex for the ODTUG 2006 conference …
Probably this post is one of many Acegi Security Getting Started’s to be found on the web. However we at Amis just recently went thru it. Here is our …
With the advent of the Oracle 7 RDBMS – 1993 – a new era dawned. Many of the key database functions and facilities, such as (Enforced) Integrity Constraints, Stored …
Yesterday it was announded by JBoss that it signed an agreement to be acquired by Red Hat. See the announcement at www.jboss.org. After several months of rumours about a …
