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 …
Category: Software Development
Getting Hibernate3 to work in JDeveloper 10.1.3
Our company focuses mainly on Oracle related products. Our Java developers use JDeveloper in combination with JHeadstart to build web applications. But that doesn’t mean we’re not interested and …
Use Data Tree in List of Values Window – ADF BC and UIX and JHeadstart
Recently I have had several occasions where I had to implement a List of Values, allowing the users to select a value from a large set of reference values. …
Ant, Stored Procedures and dbms_output
Running sql (scripts) from ant using the ant task is quite easy and straight forward. Unfortunately, the ant sql task is not really suited for running pl/sql, e.g. exec …
On Software Engineering
On August 4 we had a session on software engineering. The aim of the session was to share knowledge and experience about the way we develop software and to …
Oracle Rules… the world?? Design and Run-time Rules Engine – also for PL/SQL?
I was triggered by the news item on OC4J on OTN’s homepage, ” Download Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.3) Developer Preview 4 – including … Oracle Rules” to resume …
java-source.net: a catalog of Java Open Source Software
When you’re in need for a tool or a framework, often it turns out that a solution exists already and is just one download away as an open source …
Java5 autoboxing
A new feature of java5 is autoboxing, which automatically converts between primitives and its wrapper types. This may be very handy, but can also be a source for a …
NL-JUG Fall Conference – Call for Papers
NL-JUG J-Fall 2005 Call For Papers Deadline: august 31, 2005 On October 12th 2005 the J-Fall, the fall-conference of the NL-JUG will be organized. The theme of this conference …
New shipment of books – the Summer 2005 shipment is in
It is getting harder and harder to keep track of all the books coming into and going out of our library. The shelves never get full as all new …
PLDOC, documenting your PL/SQL directly from the database
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Ever asked a PL/SQL code developer to create documentation for his code, the way Javadoc is able to create for Java code? It is possible using the open-source tool …
New HTML Form element: Radio Select – Combining Radio Button and Select items
It has always been a bit of a tricky discussion, when to use a group of Radio Buttons and when to use a Select (List) in an HTML Form. …
Hacking web apps
On JavaPolis 2004 Erwin Geirnaert did a very nice presentation on hacking Web Applications. He gives an overview of how this can be achieved and then he gives some …
Running UltraSearch
Oracle UltraSearch is a web-based search application based on Oracle Text. It can be used to index a wide variety of datasources like websites, databases, files etc. and to …
DB utilities – splitting generated DDL scripts
Have you ever tried to split the DDL scripts generated by Designer? Pretty tough, isn’t it? Well, I have a nice solution for you: the Perl script sql_split.pl splits …
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 available (only on Linux right now)
Oracle just released (or at least I just saw) the availability of the Oracle 10gR2 database, for Linux. I assume that in a few days time we will also …
ODTUG 2005 Wrap Up part 3 – The position of JHeadstart and The Magnifying Glass gadget for presenters
It was over more than a week ago. But I am still processing all I have heard and seen at ODTUG 2005, the Oracle Development Tools User Group conference …
Workshop ADF Binding Framework – Creating a programmatic ADF Client and Developing a WebService front end using Oracle ADF
With last week’s workshop on the ADF Binding Framework (with 13 AMIS Java developers) and next week’s three day workshop on JHeadstart and the Knowledge Center session on Oracle …
AMIS Knowledge Center Session on Spring Framework
Yesterday (Thursday) we had our six-weekly get-to-together for the Web & Java Knowledge Center. This time the focus was the Spring Framework. Aino and Lucas presented on their findings …
Oracle Fusion
As the world is moving to Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) companies are rebranding and consolidating their products into a complete, supportive and integrated platform. That’s where Oracle Fusion Middleware …
ADF Faces – The Next Really Big thing from Oracle Development (ODTUG Wrap Up – Part II)
One of the important threads through the entire ODTUG 2005 Conference last week was the future of JDeveloper and Oracle’s position in the Java/J2EE Arena in general. It turns …
JDeveloper for free
The rumours were right: JDeveloper will be available for free. However, ADF and OC4J still need to be licenced (for use in a production environment). Read the discussion on …
Linking a button to an LOV page in ADF UIX
Imagine this situation: in an input form you need to be able to pass a value from one of several LOVs to the same text field. Using JHeadstart, it’s …
Passing on a session variable to the BC layer in ADF
In one of our projects we ran into this next problem. We had a ViewObject with attributes representing several columns from two tables. Depending on whether or not the …
Oracle Database 10g Release 2 – SQL and PL/SQL Features
Arup Nanda writes about new features for the upcoming Oracle 10gR2 release, targeted at the end of June 2005. In this article, he discussues new SQL and PL/SQL features. …
Day Two of the ODTUG 2005 Conference – Oracle's Development Tools Strategy, JDeveloper free?, JHeadstart and more…
ODTUG 2005 is under way. 600 Oracle Developers, users of Oracle Forms and Designer, JDeveloper and Portal, Discoverer and Reports and many other Oracle technologies, have gathered in the …
Pulling the rug from under your feet while keeping standing – Using the Hot Swappable Target Source in Spring AOP
Spring AOP offers a wealth of new options in programming as well as designing Java applications. A somewhat more advanced feature is the Hot Swappable Target Source. The concept …
Getting into Spring AOP – Implementing simple business logic on top of Domain Objects using Aspect Oriented Programming
Aspect Oriented Programming is one of the hypes in Java programming. Through AOP, we can program the functionality for a Class in more ways than just by writing the …
Jumpstart Spring
Since Lucas already gave an in-depth review of the Spring workshop, I’ll take the breadcrumbs ;-( After some years of Java/j2ee developing Spring comes for me at the right …
How to call methods from EL expressions- pre JSP 2.0 trick for JSPs with JSTL
I finally got round to describing a trick that I have implemented more than one year ago. It happened to come up during last week’s Spring workshop, so I …
Executing PL/SQL from ANT – how to keep the format straight
Just read the post Executing Oracle PL/SQL from Ant on how to use Ant for executing PL/SQL tasks, such as creating Packages and Stored Procedures. I have used Ant …
Spring Workshop – Day Four – Rod and Alef on AOP, JMX and Remoting (Spring does EJB??)
Friday I attended the last day of the Spring Workshop. An interesting menu for today’s dinner: Aspect Oriented Programming, JMX support and Remoting. Friday, the last day of the …
My First AJAX – the simplest Asynchronuous JavaScript Server call man can imagine
Inspired by Aino’s post AJAX and RIA, I wanted to get my first XMLHttpRequest object based AJAX example getting up and running. It is a standalone HTML page that …
Who is calling me? – Analyzing the Java Callstack
During the Spring Workshop, Rod Johnson started a brief discussion on how to find out in a Java Class who invoked the method currently being executed. The best trick: …
Ajax and Ria
Despite of what the title may suggest this is not about a greek mythological drama about a hero and a woman. But it Ãs about interaction and exchanging of …
Struts-Layout tag library 1.1 released
Quoting straight from The Server Side: Struts-Layout is a tag library for Struts which provides skinnable tags that display panels, input fields, form modes,tables, pagers, treeviews, sortable lists, popups, …
Day 3 of the Spring Workshop – On Persistence and Transactions and ever more Test Driven Development
Rod Johnson took over from Alef again to talk about the Spring DAO module, Spring’s support for leading persistence frameworks. Spring takes over a lot of configuration details for …
Spring MVC – move over Struts? Day two of the Spring Workshop
Today I attended the second day of the Spring Workshop by Rod Johnson and Alef Arendsen, two of the core team of the Spring Framework. Having been thoroughly lectured …
Power to the POJO – day one of the Spring Core Committer's workshop
If there is one wave (or hype if you like) flooding the Java/J2EE arena right now – well, there is JSF and EJB 3.0 and AJAX and Java 5 …
Craig McClanahan – JavaServer Faces: Dead on Arrival or Raging Success? (from the TheServerSide Java Symposium 2005)
What seems like a very interesting presentation from the tech lead for JSF: TheServerSide Java Symposium 2005. The description: The need for a common API for Java-based web application …