Category: Software Development
The Oracle 7Up workshop that I teach every few months introduces many Oracle 8i, 9i and some 10g features to experienced SQL and PL/SQL developers with a firm footing …
We have discussed in several previous posts how you invoke Java services from BPEL processes, either through embedded Java or through a WSIF interface. Another interesting option with the …
This post discusses how you can integrate WebUtil with Designer 10g to generate webforms using the webutil API’s with less post generation actions. Near 100% generation of webforms using …
An interesting article on OTN by Casimir Santeros, bringing the worlds of Java and Oracle together. The assignment: loading data from multi-sheet Excel documents into Oracle database tables. Technologies …
There are several approaches to keep a consistent look and feel for your web application. Lots of times the site will contain a navigation bar, a heading maybe a …
In several places XMLHttpRequest sprung up this week. XmlHttpRequest is a JavaScript object allowing browser clients to communicate with a server without refreshing the current page. This object originated …
The last couple of weeks we’ve been playing around with the BPEL Designer plugin for JDeveloper 10.1.2. As BPEL is mostly used to integrate existing webservices, that’s what we …
Yesterday, I had to install XMLDB on an already very heavy used system. On this UNIX system, an old Oracle IAS is installed, OAS 10g (version 9.0.4) and an …
Since late Tuesday, the new JHeadstart 10.1.2 release for ADF features on the Homepage of OTN! The full software package can de downloaded from the JHeadstart Home on OTN …
In this nice OnJava article Amir Shevat shows a way to scale an application in a near painless and lightweight manner using the OS MantaRay messaging middleware package. Interesting …
All statistics on the visits to the posts in the AMIS Technology Weblog are gathered in a MySQL database that sist underneath WordPress. We would like to do some …
The last few days a colleague and I have been looking into a beta release of Oracle’s BPEL designer for jDeveloper. This tool enables you to orchestrate single web …
Debugging JavaScript code – an all too familiar nightmare. Yesterday I was told about Venkman for FireFox, today I found this article in DevShed: Debugging in Javascript, Contributed by …
I have posted a few articles on generating Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) – for example for PieCharts, SpeedoMeters and LineCharts. Buried in those posts are instructions on enabling SVG …
This weekend I read a small article in a local Dutch IT-magazine that took me by surprise. I suppose I should have seen it before, but for some reason …
Those who have layed out a web page or application with CSS should be familiar with the name Eric Meyer. He has a web page with many well known …
Oracle’s JHeadstart team does a double whammy, not only do they release the production version of ADF JHeadstart but they announce it on their brand new weblog. As already …
Recently I ran into a bug in JDeveloper 10.1.2 or actually in the ADF Business Components version supplied with it. Calling getAttributesNames() on a viewobject resulted in a nasty …
Our weblog started last July. Since then we had over 250000 hits from over 45000 different IP-addresses. Last night, I sat down to do a comparison between the various …
Recently I have upgraded my web server at home to the latest version of Tomcat (version 5.5.7 at the moment of this writing). Time to document my steps a …
I ran into an interesting discussion on The Server Side: Comparing Oracle 10g and SQL Server Yukon. It contains a link to a white paper: Features, strengths, and weaknesses …
If you want to set default values for ViewObject Attributes in new records, you can now very easily do so when your application makes use of the ADF JHeadstart …
An interesting white paper: Struts best practices Multiple options are available for solving problems with Struts. When deciding among these alternatives, the choice must be based on parameters such …
Oracle 8.1.5 introduced the ability to choose Java as a language to implement a stored procedure. One of our customers required the following functionalities from within an Oracle database: …
Interesting post by Dino Fancellu on SoftwareReality.com, XSLT is Way Faster Using Java 5, talks about how by replacing Xalan by XSLTC and Crimson by Xerces Sun JDK 5.0 …
An interesting article Of Persistence and POJOs: Bridging the Object and Relational Worlds, by Rod Johnson and Jim Clark in Mastering J2EE Application Development Series on OTN (the Oracle …
It has always been my understanding that choosing ADF (Oracle’s relative new Application Development Framework and the – perhaps premature – implementation of the JSR-227 – means choosing JDeveloper. …
Chris Schalk has posted a very interesting blog on web templates in JDeveloper 10.1.2 (production) and JDeveloper 10.1.3 (preview). This how-to is only published on the Chris Schalk’s blog …
Want to know more on Oracle BPEL Process Manager and in particular about the upcoming release with the JDeveloper plugin? This article gives an overview as well as some …
I apparently completely missed the new MySQL toolset, which was announced on December the 8th 2004. The MySQL database ships now with easy-to-use visual database tools: MySQL Query Browser …
Today – January 27th – we have another AMIS Query, this time on Oracle BPEL Process Manager. AMIS Queries are a series of expert technical sessions for AMIS staff, …
Organizations currently using JHeadstart 9.0.4.x or 9.0.5.x (for JDeveloper 9i or JDeveloper 10g (9.0.5.x) may wonder whether and when they should pick up the soon to be released ADF …
This post discusses how a Web Service can be published based on a PL/SQL Package inside the Oracle Database – using Oracle 10g JDeveloper. In this article we will …
You may have seen our AMIS Library System application (ALS). It is shipped as demo-application (for JHeadstart & Toplink) with JHeadstart 9.0.5.x. We also have a BC4J version of …
Windows is not shipped with a lot of tools for the developer. Simple tools like grep, sed, make are not provided. Today I installed UnxUtils. A set of GNU …
This post discusses how a Web Service can be consumed from PL/SQL inside the Oracle Database through the use of the UTL_HTTP supplied package. In this article we will …
Today we received a hot build of ADF JHeadstart Beta for JDeveloper 10.1.2 (build 10). We have been experimenting with the ADF JHeadstart beta build for several months now …
Andrej Koelewijn spotted a Jason Jacobi post on OTN regarding an upcoming utility for migration of UIX pages to ADF Faces/JSP pages. The upcoming JHeadstart release will support ADF …
The post JCIFS and jWebUnit by Matt Raible describes use of JCIFS to achieve single sign on for web applications based on the Windows Login. On my current project, …
My first days at AMIS I examined JasperReports (v. 0.6.3), an open source report-generating library. This tool is entirely written in Java and uses XML report templates to generate …
