Setting up Oracle JNDI Datasource on Tomcat
In one of the projects I’m involved in we have to make use of specific Oracle JDBC features. The application runs on Tomcat 5.0.27 and connects to the database …
Category: Software Development
CSS editor in JDeveloper
Last year I spent a lot of time on a project using Eclipse as IDE. I like it very much. I allways call it a real developers tool. It …
Struts, JAAS, Tomcat: getting acquainted (part 2)
In Struts, JAAS, Tomcat: getting acquainted (part 1) it was discussed how to employ JAAS authentication for custom and/or legacy realms under Tomcat. As authorization was left unaddressed, we …
Hibernate: dealing with lazy loading inevitable
In Hibernate + Middlegen Roundtrip Development applied it was shown how to generate Hibernate POJOs + mapping files from a legacy (SQL server) database. As soon as business objects …
Struts, JAAS, Tomcat: getting acquainted
The Java Authentication + Authorization Service (JAAS) provides a standard API for making non-standard (i.e. custom) realms available to your application server, see e.g. this article on JavaWorld. To …
Profiling in Eclipse
Profiling makes it possible for developers to track down in what code their application spends its time. Check out this Eclipse plugin for profiling Java applications. Looks really good. …
Interesting articles on various subjects
November 5, 2004
Database, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In this post I collect references to interesting articles on a variety of topics – Java, SQL, Business Intelligence, Web Services, HTML/CSS, JavaScript – that I have come across. …
Working with Omondo's EclipseUML Free Edition
In my last post I reviewed the Omondo EclipseUML Free Edition. In this post I want to present a more elaborate description/howto, allowing myself to focus a bit more …
Evaluation Omondo EclipseUML Free Edition
UML diagrams are used during (almost) the whole software product development life cycle: from requirements analysis (use case diagrams) to deployment (deployment diagrams). In this post I will review …
Google Desktop Search – no more agonizing searches for lost documents
This weekend I installed the Google Desktop Search tool. It is currently in Beta, it is free, about 400K in size and can be downloaded from http://desktop.google.com/. After you …
JDeveloper BPEL plugin
Today I attended an excellent online Oracle Seminar on the BPEL Process Manager by Sandor Nieuwenhuijs. I think most of the content is covered by a previous post by …
JBoss releases library for Aspect Oriented Programming
JBoss just released JBoss AOP 1.0 Final production release. See the announcement on The Server Side – JBoss AOP 1.0. It has a plugin for Eclipse but can be …
AMIS publishes Extensions for the JHeadstart Application Generator
Today AMIS announces the immediate availability of the AMIS JHeadstart Application Generator Extensions. A free set of enhancements for JHeadstart 10g (9.0.5.x) that will allow you to generate much …
Deployment under JBoss-4.0.0 with Eclipse's JBoss-IDE plugin
This evening I successfully re-deployed my application to JBoss-4.0.0. It used to be deployed under JBoss 3.2.4 using the Lomboz plug-in. Although the JBoss-IDE plug-in involves a bit more …
Webforms Help page on OTN
![Webforms Help page on OTN]({"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/ABPub\/2012\/08\/02\/2018836700.jpg","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"} "Webforms Help page on OTN")
Here is an excellent web page about Oracle webforms. It covers the Forms Server, lots of general stuff, how to implement java (PJC and beans) in your webform and …
AMIS Library System – JHeadstart 9.0.5.x (BC4J, JSP+JSTL) Demo Application released
October 20, 2004
Java, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Today, AMIS released the JHeadstart 9.0.5.x version of the ALS application for BC4J and JSP/JSTL. Download the zip-file with the entire application, the database setup and the JDeveloper 10g …
BC4J and Distributed deployment (in particular of JHeadstart Applications)
Thusfar we have been lucky – or careless – to not have had to consider distributed application deployment. However, web-applications running in the DMZ accessed by internet users directly …
BI Beans and Export to Excel
BI Beans only provides export to CSV to be imported into Excel, at least up to the 9.0.4 release: News from the BI Beans product team: In the 9.0.5 …
Organization of BC4J – Domain (EO) and Business (VO) package
A topic that seems to come up again and again is the issue of reusing BC4J packages across applications and projects. And along the same lines structuring the BC4J …
JBoss Joins Eclipse
From Eclipse News: JBoss Joins Eclipse, Releases Application Server 4.0 Open-source firm JBoss recently unveiled the release of Application Server 4.0 and detailed an alliance with the Eclipse Foundation. …
I18Nized Buttons with AccessKeys in Struts applications
Some time ago I wrote a post on HTML Buttons which are accessable using keyboard shortcuts. (alt-s for a save button for example). In the solution I proposed I …
Tiger (Java 5.0) Variable method arguments
In Java code you have to use arrays a lot if you want to pass a variable number of arguments to a method. The main method is an excellent …
Spacer for JHeadstart Generation
During the JHeadstart workshop I am teaching this week there as a question: How can I – in a two-column layout – force two adjacent fields to be positioned …
Tiger (Java 5.0) Generics, auto (un)boxing and new For loop
Knowing that I will not be the only one posting on these features in the Java Tiger release here are some observations I made while running some tests. I …
HttpUnit 1.6 Released
From this thread on The Server Side: HttpUnit 1.6 released. HttpUnit 1.6, the first new production release in over a year, is now available. HttpUnit emulates the relevant portions …
A single POJO persistence model to replace JDO and take over much of EJB??
Java and persistence are hot. And continue to be hot. If I read things correctly, Sun – through Linda DeMichiel and Craig Russell Specification Leads, JSR-220 and JSR-243 – …
Java 5.0 (Tiger) – MetaData and Annotations – Introduction and thoughts on application
I have given the meta-data features in the J2SE 5.0 Tiger Release some more thought. Reading – in this order – through the following articles, I rather quickly had …
Craig McClanahan Blog
Craig McClanahan of Struts and JSF fame has started his own Blog. Let us add it to our roll..
Java 1.5 == 5.0 ==Tiger is loose (Sun releases J2SE 5.0)
All the news etc. starts here: J2SE 5.0 Home For new features see here (new features). and here (release notes). Then there is the article: Java 5.0 in a …
Using Struts' nested indexed properties in a form with table-layout
It looks like trying to use Struts’ nested indexed properties in a form with table-layout, with every line (a few formfields) as an editable separate entity, has driven a …
Struts, JDBC and Data Guard – Oracle Open World Amsterdam – Friday 24th September – Impressions
In this post I will tell you about some of the sessions notably on Struts support in JDeveloper, Java/JDBC support with Oracle 10g and the Data Guard option of …
Eating your own dogfood – use of Oracle Development tools within the Oracle Applications development group
During the Amsterdam stage of the Oracle Open World Tour, I had a great opportunity to interview John Wookey Senior Vice President, Applications Development at Oracle Corporation. John is …
ADF documentation
In between sessions on Oracle Open World I visited the demogrounds. In one of the booths Duncan Mills was demonstrating Oracles ADF framework in JDeveloper 10g. IMHO the documentation …
BPEL is great and so is Oracle BPEL
Probably many of you have at least a vague notion of what BPEL (Business Process Execution Language) is all about. Now, thanks to a very good presentation by Oracle’s …
Struts + XDoclet (webdoclet) and integration with Eclipse
XDoclet is a tool that proclaims the DRY (Don’t Repeat Yourself) principle: you code everything in one file once, as opposed to the practice of modern software development, where …
Better Faster Lighter Java
This probably is one of the best books (on Java that is ;)) I’ve read in years. The book addresses the growing complexity Java designers & Developers face these …
Report knowledge center meeting on (J)Unit tests
Yesterday a presentation was given on unit testing during an Amis (Web) Knowledge Center meeting. The aim was to introduce the JUnit framework and related technologies such as DbUnit …
Report of Webforms evening
The Knowledge Centre Designer & Forms has had a meeting on the 30th of august 2004. The theme of this evening was Webforms. First there was a short overview …
HTML Buttons with an image
In HTML it is possible to define an accesskey for a control. For example if you want to have a button which the user can click using the hot-key …
Hibernate + Middlegen Roundtrip Development applied
In Hibernate Roundtrip Development, a scenario is presented to generate (Hibernate) POJO objects from a (legacy) database, also known as a bottom-up approach: We applied this strategy to a …