Mind Mapping
Recently, in a meeting with some of my collegues I realized that there are many way to take notes, add priorities and relations etc. etc. One of them used …
Category: Software Development
Oracle to offer free database
Released on 25th October 2005, Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE) is an entry-level, small-footprint database based on the Oracle Database 10g Release 2 code base that’s …
Reporting made easier using XML Publisher
Oracle announces in the November/December issue of Oracle magazine that it will release XML Publisher as a standalone version. This is very good news for all the users that …
Apache MyFaces 1.1.1 released
The apache foundation has just released version 1.1.1 of MyFaces, a free open source implementation of JavaServer Faces . This release is a minor patch release that fixes a …
Oracle Lite and Java
Oracle lite is a very interesting product. As the name indicates, is it a lite version of the Oracle database and thus capable of running on a PDA, laptop …
More JFall highlights: MDA and OCL, Java and scripting, Project Jackpot and the XP Game.
From last week's JFall conference I picked four of the most interesting sessions I visited to report on: Combining the Power of MDA and OCL: Generating Java Code from …
More on JFall 2005
With some of my collegues I attended JFall, one of the two yearly conferences of the NLJUG. I visited the presentations on Mule, Wicket, Spring WebFlow and the newly …
Upgrading to JHeadstart 10.1.2.1
Recently I started on a project that was partly built with JHeadstart 10.1.2 on JDeveloper 10.1.2 (build 1811). Since JHeadstart 10.1.2.1 contains so many new features and JDeveloper 10.1.2 …
Learn Once, Work Anywhere (with Choice) an impression of J-Fall 2005
On October 12th I have visited J-Fall 2005 conference of Java Usergroup Netherlands (www.nljug.org). There have been held many presentations, attended by a large public and it has been …
Apache Geronimo 1.0-M5 Released : Certified J2EE 1.4 Server
At some point during the last year I had gotten the impression that Geronimo was dead. It had missed its scheduled release date – and no new date or …
JHeadstart(10.1.2) – Passing defaults for your bind Parameters
Sometimes you want the query of your view object to be dynamic: you want to be able to pass an argument (a bind parameter) to the where clause of …
JFall 2005
On oktober 12, 2005, a few of my colleagues and me attended JFall, the second Java conference this year organised by NL-JUG, the Netherlands Java User’s Group. Like JSpring, …
Assasination attempt on MySQL? – Oracle Announces the Acquisition of Open Source Software Company, Innobase
Interesting news on Friday: the Oracle acquisition – the eleventh this year – of Innobase. Innobase? You may very well have never heard of it. Unless you are a …
Java and AJAX
Philip McCarthy has started a series of articles about implementing AJAX technology in Java applications. The first article is entitled Build dynamic Java applications and has been available since …
Small introduction to SQL*Net debugging [client side]
Say it's that day again. You try to connect to a (new) database and once again you are facing SQL*Net problems. Blast!. What can you do? Once in a …
Jdbc, Clobs and Strings
Clob handling in jdbc can be a tedious job, especially because it required the use of Oracle specific extensions. With the 10g release this has been simplified and Clobs …
Good Citizenship – Have Client Applications register themselves with the database
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Years ago I have read about the package dbms_application_info for the first time. This is a standard supplied package, shipped with every Oracle Database. It can be used to …
JoSQL
I just read an announcement of a new release of JoSQL, SQL for Java Objects. My first reaction was a bit reserved but after a quick glance at their …
PL/SQL Profiling
How do you trace performance issues and bottlenecks in your PL/SQL applications? Since 8i the Oracle database has been equiped with the profiling tool dbms_profiler. It is quite simple …
XML technologies
This picture contains a handy overview, with links, of all (?!) XML (related) technologies, specs, acronyms etc. A similar overview is also available for java.
Book Review: Pragmatic Unit Testing
September 20, 2005
Book reviews and Publications, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server
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Title: Pragmatic Unit Testing Authors: Andrew Hunt, David Thomas ISBN: 0-9745140-2-0 pages: 150 This book gives a good introduction into the different aspects of unit testing. It’s easy readible …
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 EA1 New Features
It is not yet a production release, but hey: who cares when you see what it contains in terms of new functionality. Apart from the UIX design time support …
AJAX Tag Library – Open Source project for easy use of AJAX mechanisms from JSPs
I just googled across this open source project. It is relatively simple, but can be quite useful. Its demos are at any rate useful, if only for the JavaScript …
Enhancing PHP-based WordPress Weblog with AJAX driven enrichments
Over the past period I have written several articles on AJAX – the Asynchronous JavaScript and XML mechanism for dynamically updating a web-page based on background communication with the …
Increasing speed of making data available in the web-page – on AJAX, controlling data caching and JavaScript Libraries
The problem I am dealing with: downloading all data that is potentially to be displayed in the client – for example in SELECT LISTS – takes too long to …
An Introduction To Ajax – great article on dev2dev
I just came across an article that very clearly introduces AJAX: An Introduction To Ajax Recently I did an internal presentation Enhancing Web Applications with AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, UIX – …
AMIS Query – donderdag 29 september 2005 – Java Server Faces en ADF Faces, van vergezicht tot standaard View technologie
(this event on JSF and ADF Faces will take place in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands and will be Dutch-spoken. Hence this announcement in Dutch) AMIS Query: Java Server Faces, van …
Introducing Spring Framework – Overview presentation and demonstration for Oracle Consulting
Last week, I had the opportunity to present on the Spring Framework for the Oracle Consulting Java Professional Community at Oracle The Netherlands. Having worked at Oracle for over …
Spring and Oracle ADF – registering a POJO Spring JDBC based Business Service as Data Control
In several previous posts, I have wondered about the potential for combining the ADF Binding Framework and the IDE capabilities around ADF in Oracle 10g JDeveloper with the Spring …
JHeadstart Sighting: Steve Muench's Column in Oracle Magazine – Frameworks: Creating Search Pages
Swinging in the sun, enjoying one of this Summer’s last great days perhaps, I was reading the September/October issue of Oracle Magazine. One the interesting pieces this issue was …
Role of the Database in a J2EE Architecture – Dumb Data Store? Only Data Tier? Also Business Tier?
The other day, we had a very interesting debate about the role of the database in (our) Java/J2EE projects and architectures. Should you limit the use of the database …
Introducing Spring JDBC – frequently the best introduction of Spring in an organization
Spring consists of a number of modules, such as the IoC Container, AOP, MVC, Persistence, DAO and Remoting. These modules are relatively losely coupled: some can be used without …
JUnit testing with EasyMock
Mockobjects are the classic solution to the even more classic problem of how to test code in isolation, when that code needs other objects to perform its tasks. The …
On Line Documentation for Oracle 10gAS 10.1.2 – including ADF Documentation
For the on-line documentation for release 10.1.2 of the Oracle Application Server, see http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_10/web.htm. It contains besides others links to documentation on the ADF (Application Development Framework), such as …
Building Custom JSF UI Components – Article Chris Schalk TheServerSide.com
Today I read this very interesting article by Chris Schalk – responsible for the Web application development features within Oracle JDeveloper- TheServerSide.com – Building Custom JSF UI Components. Chris …
Enhancing Web Applications with AJAX, XMLHttpRequest, UIX – Report from An AMIS Ten Minute TechTalk
I was kindly requested recently to do a brief – and it was stressed several times that it really had to be brief, not something I am particularly well-known …
Powercharging FireFox using GreaseMonkey
Today I discovered GreaseMonkey mozdev.org – greasemonkey: home. Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension which lets you to add bits of DHTML (“user scripts”) to any web page to change …
IBM Open Sources WebFountain (UIMA) – Unstructured Text Analysis software
It sounds intriguing. If only I could really get it. IBM has developed software, called UIMA for Unstructured Information Management Architecture, that can be used for analysis of unstructured …
Bizgres 0.7 Released – Open Source platform for Business Intelligence and ETL
I just read in a Dutch IT magazine (Computable) about the release of Bizgres 0.7. Bizgres is an open source project: The Bizgres Project (www.bizgres.org), a Greenplum-sponsored, community-supported, open …
Create JavaScript Debug Console using DIV and innerHTML
Interesting thread on Experts Exchange, on how to develop a standard facility to do debugging inside web-pages: JavaScript: How to print log messages to Firefox JavaScript console in my …