Missed MySQL New Toolset
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 …
Category: Software Development
AMIS Query on Oracle BPEL Process Manager – Overview, Latest developments and a Preview of the (beta) JDeveloper plugin
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, …
(When) Should we embark on ADF JHeadstart?
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 …
Publishing PL/SQL Based WebServices
January 24, 2005
Database, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Web HTML5 CSS3
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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 …
Migration from JHeadstart 9.0.4.x or 9.0.5.x to ADF JHeadstart (beta)
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 …
GNU utilities for Win32
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 …
Consuming Web Services from PL/SQL – Part II: A pure PL/SQL solution using UTL_HTTP (Oracle 9i or 10g)
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 …
ADF JHeadstart Beta – Impressions of Build 10
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 …
ADF Faces JHeadstart ?
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 …
Single Sign On for Web Applications – Use of Windows Login details
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, …
Starting with JasperReports
January 20, 2005
AMIS, Databases, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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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 …
Consuming Web Services from PL/SQL – Part I: Using Java Stored Procedures
This post discusses how a Web Service can be consumed from PL/SQL inside the Oracle Database through the use of Java Stored Procedures. In this article, we will create …
I Love Lucene – interesting article on TSS about Jakarta Java Based text-search engine
I found a very interesting article on how to get started – and what to expect – from Lucene, the Jakarta Apache text search engine library written entirely in …
Locking colums in HTML table (IE only)
In a project I’m working on we have a HTML table with many columns for editing certain records. The users requested the possibility to lock the first column so …
OpenVPN: How to safely access a database behind a firewall
OpenVPN is an open source VPN implementation which can be found on http://www.openvpn.net With OpenVPN, you can: tunnel any IP subnetwork or virtual ethernet adapter over a single UDP …
SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) and Maps of the World
January 12, 2005
Data Warehousing & BI, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Web HTML5 CSS3
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I have some vague plans for presenting statistics using SVG and a World Map. I was thinking for example about the spread of the visitors of our Website across …
How to lookup information based on IP address – e.g. for Website-visitors
During the last few years I have had several occasions to wonder who used the website and web-applications I had helped develop and deploy. Most recently I had this …
Paper on JDeveloper as tool for PL/SQL Development
Tonight I completed a paper on using JDeveloper as a tool for Database Design and Generation as well as PL/SQL Development. This paper is in Dutch and will be …
SVG, XSLT and JSP/JSTL: Generating Digital Gauge or Speedometer Chart based on dynamic data
SVG in combination with XML/XSLT is a tremendously powerful architecture to produce dynamic charts based on XML data – that can easily be generated from databases such as Oracle …
AMIS Technology Weblog – Statistics, Graphics and Becoming an Author (‘blogger’)
In July 2004 we at AMIS started this Weblog. Initially we primarily wanted to share knowledge among all people working at AMIS. Later we decided to make the Blog …
Java-XML Binders Compared
Check your XML online
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Yesterday I needed to validate some XML against a schema definition. I had a tool for that at hand, but alas, it failed to work. Looking for another way …
(Pre)-compiling JSP for Tomcat with Jasper
When working on a project I like to precompile my JSPs just to test if haven’t made any (syntax) errors or forgot any resources, without having to deploy them …
JHeadStart ADF beta
January 4, 2005
AMIS, Announce / Events, Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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For some time now there have been some excellent viewlets on OTN on the functionallity of the next generation JHeadStart version which will work with Oracle Application Development Framework …
JDeveloper 10.1.2 has arrived
JDeveloper release 10.1.2 is finally available for download (here). This is a maintenance release with some new features and over 1,000 bug fixes for JDeveloper 9.5.0.2.
Generating SVG Graphics in JSPs using JSTL & XSL(T) – from MySQL to Bar Chart and Pie Chart
This post discusses how data retrieved from a MySQL or Oracle database using the JSTL SQL tags is processed as XML document, transformed using XSL and rendered as SVG …
UML version 2.0
Introduction Although UML 2.0 is not completely new, I was not able to have a look at it until now. For people like me, and for other people who …
XSL Transforming XML generated from SQL results using JSTL tags in JSP pages – putting JSTL to the test
While working on more advanced Statistics Reporting for our weblog, I did some investigations into JSTL and more specifically the XML and SQL tags. Yes, I know I have …
AMIS Query – Oracle BPEL Process Manager Dissected (Thursday 27th January)
BPEL is emerging as the standard for assembling a set of discrete services into an end-to-end process flow, radically reducing the cost and complexity of process integration initiatives. The …
Steve Muench on improving ADF performance
December 10, 2004
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Yesterday we had a technical session at Amis on ADF. In one discussion a concern was raised on how all the ADF metadata and the abstractionlayers would affect performance. …
jWebUnit
During my current project, i encountered jWebUnit, a unittesting framework based on jUnit and HttpUnit. Old news for some, new for me. Since we already had some posts on …
Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 Developer Preview is here …
December 6, 2004
AMIS, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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The Oracle JDeveloper release 10.1.3 Developer preview release can be downloaded from OTN. See JDeveloper Homepage “The Oracle JDeveloper 10g (10.1.3) release adds many new features, including a new …
JDBC database copy of table contents
For one of our projects, we wanted to copy the contents of our production database to the test database. Both databases are accessible via JDBC. After an investigation of …
Putting SPELs on ADF Code
There is a simple way to use the Expression language you use in JSTL expressions in your JSP’s, in ADF’s DataAction. Actually anywhere you can get hold of a …
JDeveloper bug – ClassNotFound
Every once in a while for no apparent reason a JDeveloper ADF/Struts project gets corrupted. When compiling the project I get an error that a certain class cannot be …
Toplink’s Object to XML mapping
November 25, 2004
Databases, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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On OTN there is an excellent online seminar (replay) on the TopLink Object-to-XML support. This feature, which will be available in the upcoming 10.1.3 release, allows converting XML files …
WSRF: modeling state with Web Services
In the whitepaper titled Modeling Stateful Resources with Web Services by Ian Foster et. al. the latest developments with respect the modeling of state with web services are very …
Deploy an Oracle JHeadstart/BC4J application to IBM WebSphere
If you’ve created a J2EE JHeadstart/BC4J application and you want to deploy it to the Oracle Application Server, it works easily. If you want to deploy it to IBM …
Quick and easy SSL in OC4J Standalone
During development it is sometimes necessary to able to run your webapplication under SSL. To obtain a test certificate from verisign can sometimes take a little too much time …
ADF BC classes & methods overview
Steve Muench wrote up a superb overview of the most commonly used classes, interfaces & their methods in the ADF BC framework (formerly known as BC4J). You might want …