Eclipse and java5
Use Eclipse with java5: Download a 3.1 Milestone Add java5 to the installed jre’s (Window > Preferences > Java > Installed JRE’s) Set the compiler compliance level to 5.0 …
Category: Software Development
Google api
Like many others, Google provides access to some of it’s services by means of webservices. Just follow the instructions at the Google web api’s site: download the developer’s kit …
DB utilities – Oracle JPublisher enables you to easily access PL/SQL from Java
The tool JPublisher is a little bit unknown. But it is a very handy tool for accessing PL/SQL stored procedures, packages, functions as well as object, collection or reference …
Integrating Ant and Checkstyle
The Open Source Java code checker Checkstyle can be easily used by Ant to check your Java code. This is an excerpt from an Ant build.xml file using the …
Storing your Oracle Reports in the database
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One can come up with several reasons to store your Oracle Reports output. Especially in cases where it needed to prove to authorities that the document you delivered was …
How to implement an unique key constraint in ADF BC?
In an ADF project that deals with building a membership administration application for a sporting organization, I ran against the question how I could implement the validation of the …
AJAX with UIX – PrimaryClientAction for instantaneous server-based client refresh
The whole hype around AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML) for background client-server communication from JavaScript in HTML pages is very interesting. It allows for much more responsive, interactive and …
Preserve text structure with XSL-FO
XSL-FO is all about the formatting of a document. For the interpretation of spaces and other special characters many options are available. To preserve the whitespaces and new lines …
Bursting Reports, an easier way to distribute parts of your report
Ever had someone ask you:â€?I have this Oracle Report that I need to email or print to file. I have to run this report multiple times with only one …
Xopus
Recently Xopus, a browser based XML editor, attracted some attention. This stimutated us for a review. The editor itself is completely written in javascript and relies on the MSXML …
J-Spring 2005
On Thursday, May 12 2005, the Dutch Java Uusers Group (nl-jug) organised a Java conference entitled J-Spring 2005. This article describes my findings of this conference.
JSpring 2005 follow-up
A previous post already has an extensive review of the JSpring conference so I’ll follow up to that one. The concern that Duncan Mills stated was shared by other …
Generating Matrix-Forms using ADF and JHeadstart – (Excel style)
One of the long-standing challenges of application development – in any technology – is the Matrix Form: an updateable grid-like structure of rows, columns and cells. In this post …
Making Decisions, Decisions- article on JSP, JSTL, arrays of parameters
Just published on the DevShed, an article – excerpt from “Beginning JSP 2 – From Novice to Professional” published by Apress (2004) – on using JSTL for implementing conditional …
Oracle 10g's Finest – The Top 3 SQL and PL/SQL Features new in 10g – paper for ODTUG 2005
Papers for the ODTUG 2005 conference are limited to 10 pages. That is not enough. It never is, by the way. This time, I restricted myself to only three …
New Books Shipment in – April 2005
The April shipment of new books has arrived. Some books are in the library, others immediately went home with some of my esteemed colleagues. Some of the books in …
New tutorial on OTN (by Steve Muench) – Building J2EE Applications with Oracle JHeadstart for ADF
Steve Muench, ADF Master from Oracle, created a tutorial for using JHeadstart to jumpstart ADF development. Building J2EE Applications with Oracle JHeadstart for ADF It is good to see …
Implementing a Business Process in BPEL using Oracle BPEL 10g (beta 3) – GetSalesQuote leverages PL/SQL and WebServices
Oracle BPEL PM is a tool that allows us to design and publish WebServices. The design is done in BPEL, the industry standard for specifying Business Processes. BPEL stands …
Much better way of producing CSV (Excel) Files from ADF WebApplications
A few days ago, I wrote a post on using XML derived from the ADF BC based Model in an XSLT transformation to render comma separated values (csv) files …
Citius, Altius, Fortius – Java Development met Oracle ADF en JHeadstart
We just published an article on ADF and JHeadstart 10.1.2 on our website: “Citius, Altius, Fortiusâ€? –Java Development met Oracle ADF en JHeadstart. It is written for and will …
How to use the BPEL file adapter to load data into Oracle
This post shows a simple example about how to use Oracle’s BPEL server to load and parse a datafile. The data in the file is then inserted into a …
Example of XSL-transforming in ADF applications – downloading Excel (CSV) files from ADF Web Applications
One of our recent projects based on Oracle ADF (JSP, Struts, ADF BC and ADF Binding Framework on top of an Oracle Database) had as one of its requirements …
Oracle wants more database support in Eclipse
uk.builder.com reports that Oracle wants more database support in the Eclipse IDE. Oracle is going to develop database support for Eclipse. This software will be released and donated to …
CodeZoo (O'Reilly) – Java Component Directory
O’Reilly recently opened its CodeZoo, a Directory of (currently only) Java Components – frameworks, tools, utilities, libraries – that will aid development and can all be dowloaded for free. …
Oracle 10g Application Server 10.1.2 New features
It’s not as if this white paper has only just been released (it’s from February 2005). But I only just noticed it. And I think it is worth pointing …
Publishing PL/SQL "Services" as WebService using Oracle BPEL
Oracle BPEL Process Manager is a BPEL engine that runs in any J2EE Application Server, though typically Oracle 10gAS (OC4J), JBoss, WebLogic or WebSphere. Oracle BPEL PM publishes business …
Hibernate releases preview of EJB 3.0 (beta 2) implementation
Hibernate just released a preview of their EJB 3.0 implementation: http://www.hibernate.org/247.html This follows shortly after the release by Oracle of the EJB 3.0 Preview of the Oracle Application Server: …
Catalog of Java Open Source Frameworks
The site http://www.manageability.org/blog/opensource/ contains a wonderful collection of Collections of interesting Open Source projects written in Java. Yes, collections is duplicated on purpose. The site presents a list of …
J2EE 5.0 Specification – Early Draft available
On the site of the Java Community Process, you can now review the Early Draft for J2EE 5.0: http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/detail?id=244. This JSR is to develop J2EE 5.0, the next release …
Knowledge Center on Web & Java
AMIS has several Knowledge Centers, each around a technology theme. The current themes are: Web & Java (Oracle) Server Development & Programming Languages Oracle Development Tools Database Administration and …
TheServerSide.com – Hibernate vs. Rails: The Persistence Showdown
An interesting article comparing two OO/R frameworks: Hibernate and RAILS. It gives a good indication of what you should look for when investigating OO/R mapping/persistency frameworks. TheServerSide.com – Hibernate …
Hibernate and Middlegen revisited
In my last two posts (Hibernate + Middlegen Roundtrip Development applied and Hibernate: dealing with lazy loading inevitable), I explained how to construct a J2EE application bottom-up using Hibernate …
Maven: multi-project and dashboard issues
Some Maven multiproject experiences will be described in this post. Special attention is paid to the dashboard plug-in.
Refreshing a ViewObject on view in JHeadstart
Imagine this situation: you have created several tables and a view that queries several columns in these tables. Using BC4J you’d create a ViewObject on the view. The ViewObject …
Strangely well timed article on ADF BC: Most Commonly Used Methods in ADF Business Components
Just found this paper: Most Commonly Used Methods in ADF Business Components by Steve Muench (15 March 2005) on OTN. This paper provides a high-level description of the key …
BPEL and Service Oriented Analysis and Design (SOAD)
Recently I read an interesting Article about BPEL related analysis and design issues. BPEL stands for Business Process Execution Language and is the world standard to describe “Business Processes” …
New article for OGH Visie on ADF and ADF JHeadstart – (sorry it is in Dutch)
For the April issue of OGH Visie, the magazine of the Dutch Oracle User Group, I have written an article on Oracle 10g JDeveloper ADF and JHeadstart 10.1.2 for …
W3C considering binary XML standard
Just read on news.com that the W3C consortium is considering a binary XML standard. This could really speed up a lot of transactions. The mayor drawback of course will …
Oracle BPEL Process Manager 10.1.2 Beta 3 available for download
I just received word from Sandor Nieuwenhuijs that the next Beta (B3) release of Oracle BPEL Process Manager has just been made available for download on OTN. Go for …
New Books Shipment in – March 2005
The first half of the March shipment has arrived. Some books are in the library, others immediately went home with some of my esteemed colleagues. Some of the books …