Category: Software Development
Recently, IBM released two articles about AJAX on their website, called Mastering AJAX, Part 1: Introduction to Ajax and Mastering AJAX, Part 2: Make asynchronous requests with JavaScript and …
For me it was a new phenomenon: JavaBlackBelt (http://javablackbelt.com/jbb/). A site where you take exams in several different Java related categories, such as J2SE, Ant, OO, JasperReports, Spring, XML, …
Yesterday we had another of our AMIS Query sessions – for technical specialists from AMIS, our business relations and even our collpetitors in the Dutch marketplace. Some 30 people …
It was a rumour – actually one of three: JBoss, SleepyCat and Zend PHP, see our article Is Oracle buying JBoss? Or Zend PHP? Or SleepyCat? Or all of …
Recently I wrote an article about setting up Jakarta Slide and using the Slide client to connect to an Exchange WebDAV store. The article is in Dutch, but if …
This article Oracle’s Open-Source Shopping Spree in Business Week Online suggests that Oracle is involved in serious discussions with JBoss, Zend and SleepyCat about a take over – for …
Over the past few weeks, several articles about EJB3.0 have been published on our weblog. On Thursday, 10 Februari 2006, the author of those articles, Lucas Jellema, presented a …
EJB 3.0 Persistence is a topic that is high on our list. We have written a substantial number of blog articles on it after doing quite some research as …
Gisteren, donderdag 9 februari, hadden we een uitstekende bijeenkomst rondom EJB 3.0 Persistence API. Met z’n 16-en – waarvan twee geïnteresseerde externen – hebben we in goed drie uur …
About a year ago I designed and developed a “JDAPI-toolbox” while migrating a medium sized (ca. 600 modules) Oracle Forms 6i application to webforms 10g for a customer in …
In an article on dev2dev, BEA’s Bill Wroth observes the increase of the usage of the Spring framework on WebLogic customer sites. He writes: "As I travel around to …
This article describes a quick route to starting out with the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API from the Eclipse 3.1 IDE. In a subsequent article, I will discuss …
This is the fourth installment in a series of four on the concept of Post Loading Resources into an HTML document after the document itself has been loaded. Using …
A 30-Jan-2006 Press release announces new name for HTML DB, see http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_jan/013006_appexchange_customers_finalsite.html
Finally it’s there! Netbeans 5.0 has been released. Including: Project Matisse; completely redesigned support for CVS; support for WebLogic 9, JBoss 4 and Sun Application Server; Struts and Java …
AJAX opens up a lot of possibilities – that in truth by and large already existed pre-AJAX. In a series of articles, I am discussing the concept of post …
It has finally happened: JDeveloper 10.1.3 has been released. No news headlines on the OTN frontpage yet, but to be found on the JDeveloper download page: That went …
This article discusses a generic method for Post Loading Resources in HTML pages. What do I mean by that? Just as your browser will fire additional requests, to potentially …
SOA, WebService and web service, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL and WSIF, Axis, SOAP, JAVA-RPC etc. etc. If Google has not found this blog by now… Seriously, these are all hot …
Last week, Sun and Oracle announced a 20+ year period of more intense cooperation. According to this link http://www.sun.com/2006-0111/feature/index.html Sun and Oracle will forcus on these three main areas: …
Service Oriented Architecture is the Architecture Design Pattern of today. Using standard WebService interfaces for functionality published by legacy applications to external consumers, we can easily reuse such functionality …
While investigating the relatively new EJB 3.0 Persistence API, I came under the impression that the specification does not cater for Stored Procedures. In general, there seem to be …
Just announced, Skype 2.0 has been released. This version also supports Video calls! Have a look at http://www.skype.com/products/for more info. Click the “Video call” link at the bottom of …
Just over a week after RC1, the NetBeans project team has released NetBeans 5.0RC2 today. Go and get it everyone!
Creating pretty graphics – or any meaningful graphics at all – in web applications is an important issue. Visual information as well as illustration makes applications more appealing and …
I recently attended a three-day training workshop for OptimalJ (the Architect Edition). OptimalJ promises to provide a complete MDA solution, and this was my first opportunity to get some …
It seems to be awards day or so. On Syscon (Australia) I found the announcement of the JDJ Reader’s Awards. It is interesting, because of the fairly literate and …
Just noticed on The Server Side an announcement regarding the "Developer.com Product of the Year 2006 Winners". As you can see for yourself, JSF (Java Server Faces), Ant, Eclipse …
Generating master-detail relationships in Oracle ADF usually is done using two (or more) View Objects which are linked together via a View Link. In a stand-alone application, getting the …
While working on Rich HTML clients that could retrieve information from various sources on different web-servers using multiple AJAX requests, I came across the AJAXSLT project from Google Code. …
AJAX is hot, great and will make the world a better place. We all know that. However, AJAX has some limitations. AJAX is about making additional HttpRequests from the …
14 and 15 December of last year I got the chance to visit the first and second conference day at Javapolis 2005. And although (or maybe because) I got …
Long expected, finally there: NetBEans 5.0 RC1 has been released. See http://www.netbeans.org/community/releases/50/index.htmlfor more info on this fine IDE.
We have been using JIRA for our Incident Management the last six months or so, and one of the UI features in JIRA that suddenly struck me as being …
EJB 3.0 Persistence is hot and coming. The fact that persistence is handled the same way, in and outside the EJB container, for Web Applications, Java Client applications and …
EJB QL or Enterprise Java Beans Query Language has been introduced in the EJB 2.0 Specification, back in 2001. For some reason, it never grew on me. I did …
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
Another side of the software engineering coin is about the development process. The popularity of agile development is growing and therefore deserved the prominent attention at javapolis. Scott Ambler …
The proper way to start OC4J is sparsely documented by Oracle: To start OC4J in a standalone environment, issue the following command from the j2ee/home/ directory: java -jar …
In the wake of my last post – Getting started with Java Server Faces (JSF) using Apache MyFaces – in JDeveloper 10.1.3EA – I will continue my explorations of …