Category: Software Development
In what is to become a series of articles illustrating a full blown business case for a Conference Registration Processing process implemented using Oracle BPEL PM, this is the …
Using email as a decoupled integration mechanism for applications is a fairly crude and simplistic yet effective approach. Messaging infrastructures – MOM – were all the rage, and still …
This article is about a generic service that takes a simple HTML Form Post and turns it into an Email. It is not revolutionary – but useful nevertheless. Besides, …
For a customer had to create an Oracle Forms functionality which would need to make several requests to the Oracle Report Server. The customer wanted me to generate a …
Cobertura a coverage tool. A coverage tool shows how many lines of code are touched. In most cases you’ll use Cobertura to see how good your regressions test are. …
Last Monday we had a KC meeting, where we discussed the latest features of Oracle Forms (OF). Basically these features break up into two categories: Oracle Forms Pl/Sql features …
In my current project I was asked to investigate the possibility of implementing a Single Sign On solution for a couple of Oracle UIX web applications I am implementing. …
… well, at least than I thought. Specifying default values for columns in our database tables seems like a pretty simple and straightforward task. The default is either a …
The standard PL/SQL package dbms_random only allows for drawing uniformly distributed (all numbers equally likely) random numbers. As far as I know, other discrete probability distributions have to be …
The last KC Web and Java session was titled ‘Advanced java’. During that session we got presentations and workshops on four subjects: annotations, threads, introspection/reflection and generics.
In a previous article (AJAX – What’s the Buzz Part 1), we discussed the introduction to AJAX as a Design Pattern. We saw a simple demonstration leading up to …
Next in my series on Design Patterns and their implementation in PL/SQL – also see previous articles on Dependency Injection of Values, Dependency Injection of Interfaces and the Template …
Last week, my colleague Marcos guided us through the still relatively new Oracle offering called XML Publisher. During a session of our Knowledge Center on Oracle Development Tools, we …
Yesterday we had a workshop titled: Ajax, What’s the buzz? During this workshop, we discussed AJAX – Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, notable examples of Ajax implementations, the repercussions Ajax …
This week we had many new books arriving. Three boxes came in with over 30 books. Among them are:
The most provoking presentation I sat in on during the Database Systems 2006 conference was probably the one by Rick van der Lans, on 10 golden rules for SOA …
Oracle recently released its first production version of a graphical database development tool called “SQL Developer†(version 1.0) – formerly project Raptor. If you have ever worked with Oracle …
NL-JUG maakte vandaag de mogelijkheid wereldkundig voor het volgen van een vier-avondse Spring training. Zie www.nljug.org. NL-JUG merkt op: “Samen met bijvoorbeeld Hibernate maakt Spring het programmeren weer leuk! …
Today I attended – and presented at – the Database Systems 2006 conference – an annual Dutch conference on Database Architecture and Technology, Enterprise Integration and Service Oriented Architectures …
We at AMIS have a fairly long tradition when it comes to having developers attend the annual ODTUG (Oracle Development Tools User Group) conference. My first conference – while …
I like to bring under your attention DWR – Easy Ajax for Java, a Java open source library created by Getahead. “Easy” is always good (like “free” is always …
For one of our current Java development efforts – a Web application based on JSP, Struts, Oracle ADF technologies – we had to develop functionality to transforms HTML documents …
Oracle biedt sinds Oracle 8i via het package DBMS_PROFILER ondersteuning voor profiling. In dit artikel, dat ook in Optimise zal verschijnen, zal dit package onder de loep genomen worden …
After quite a few encounters with .NET in recent years, primarily up against Java/J2EE technology – and some with VB before the release of .NET in 2002 – yesterday …
What’s the resemblance between Tai Chi and the Spring Framework? Nothing. …Hmm, it might be noted that both support in gaining an healthy architecture, the first regarding the human …
In the not too distant past, I have had to implement solutions for generating PDF documents, based on dynamic data and a document template to be defined by the …
One of the new features in Java 5 that clearly stands out is called: Annotations (JSR-175). Through Annotations, we can add metadata to our Java sources, not just as …
I am happy to see that a subversion extension is available for JDeveloper (10.1.3). Although it is still an early access version, it seems to work properly. Currently it …
Imagine that you have to implement a table which must contain one row minimum and may not have more than one rows. So, on insert of a row you …
In a previous article, I discussed Dependency Injection (aka Inversion of Control and the Hollywood principle) and more specifically an implementation of Dependency Injection in PL/SQL. In that we …
J2EE contains a plethora of API definitions. From the Servlet API to the EJB API, from JMX to JMS. One of the APIs that I have had very little …
Frequently our code has dependencies. Some are intrinsic dependencies, like the packages we need to invoke and the type definitions we rely on. Other dependencies are more like configuration …
One of the hottest topics in Java programming right now is probably Aspect Oriented Programming. Made popular by frameworks such as AspectJ and Spring, AOP refers to a new …
It is not well-known how the Oracle built-in Soundex exactly works. This article explains the basics and also describes the Dutch variation of this algorithm.
Oracle biedt sinds Oracle 8i via het package DBMS_DEBUG ondersteuning voor debugging. In dit artikel, dat ook in Optimise zal verschijnen, zal dit package onder de loep genomen worden …
In a previous article, Introduction to Blackbox testing of Web Applications using Selenium I have introduced Selenium, a framework for Web Application testing – any HTML/JavaScript Web Application, regardless …
After my visit tot JavaPolis, in December 2005, I wrote a brief article on Selenium, a tool for testing Web Applications. For one of our internal Knowledge Center Sessions …
While I was reviewing today’s statistics of our weblog, I noticed a referrer in our top 10 that had guided 24 readers to one of our articles. I …
This article is the sequel to EJB 3.0 Persistence – Introducing EJBQL 3.0, an introduction to EJB QL from an historical, strategic and functional perspective. In this post I …
Last week, release 4.0 of JUnit was published. You may have seen some of the announcements. The JUnit homepage (http://www.junit.org/index.htm)does not reflect this fact at the time of writing, …
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