Category: Software Development
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 …
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. …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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: …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Yesterday, Thursday May 26th, AMIS organized another of its AMIS Queries. These sessions usually bring together a substantial number of top Oracle & Java Developers from The Netherlands. This …