Upgrade JDeveloper 10g Subversion client
JDeveloper provides a build-in Subversion client via one of its extensions. Although the functionality is limited (especially in 10g) it is essential for the handling of business components in …
Category: Tools
AMIS Query 18 Mei – Een Terugblik op Hotsos 2009
April 22, 2009
AMIS, Announce / Events, Architecture, Book reviews and Publications, Databases, DBA Oracle, Development Tools, IT, Oracle, Tools
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Begin maart 2009 werd in Irving, Texas, het internationale Oracle Performance Symposium Hotsos gehouden. Ook dit jaar stond het symposium garant voor inhoudelijke hoogstaande presentaties en discussies over performance. Vier …
IETester: Develop and test your site for multiple versions of Internet Explorer
March 13, 2009
IT, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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When developing or testing your web application, you often have to support different browsers and versions. On Window machines testing for different versions of Firefox, Opera and Chrome is …
Logging in JDeveloper 11g / WebLogic Server
February 17, 2009
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, PL/SQL, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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When developing an application it makes sense to add logging to this application. The Apache Commons Logging is a way to implement logging to your application independent of the …
Echo2: Building a web application without web skills…without web skills…
Echo2… oh no, naf! (not another framework). I just want java, not some tricky framework I have to learn into depth before being productive. Ok, then you’re up to …
Reverting tagged version back to trunk in subversion using Eclipse (Subclipse)
Yesterday I was given a new assignment. Of a certain system all development was stopped a month ago. The latest version, deployed and tested on the test environment, will …
ADF 11g – persisted run time user UI personalization or: Impatient man's MDS
January 9, 2009
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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One of the rather cool pieces of functionality that did not make it into the JDeveloper 11g Boxer release of early October 2008 is the Meta Data Service …
Agile software development, the principles. Principle 9 : Continuous attention to technical excellence and good design enhances agility
December 28, 2008
IT, AMIS, Project Management, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools
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This is the ninth of 12 posts about the principles of agile software development. The purpose is to go back to the start of the agile manifesto (http://agilemanifesto.org/principles.html) and …
Rapid development of Rich JSF Web applications on top of EJB/JPA persistence (JSF on Rails – Demo 1)
December 10, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Here you will find the first demo from my Devoxx 2008 presentation. It shows how you can rapidly create a rich web application based on Java Server Faces …
Java: Generating PDF and Previewing it as an Image – iText and PDF Renderer
November 28, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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Inspired by a blog article by Edwin Biemond, I decided to try it out myself: previewing an PDF document in an image. However, Edwin used jPedal (http://www.jpedal.org/), a commercial …
ADF 11g RichFaces – handling the client side double click to invoke a server side operation
October 31, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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Selecting a row in a table with search results to drill down to its details is a fairly common operation in web application. I have implemented such functionality …
RESTful service based on ADF Business Components, publishing enterprise database contents the REST way
After three introductory and exploratory articles on RestLet, RESTful Services and the creation of the latter using the former in JDeveloper 11g as well as hooking it up with …
Publishing resources exposed by ADF Data Control in RESTful services using RestLet and JDeveloper 11g
October 14, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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The previous two articles on RESTful services using RestLet and developing in JDeveloper 11g – First Steps with RestLet 1.1RC2 in JDeveloper 11g – restful services 101 and Extending …
JDeveloper 11g first impressions.
Oracle has just released JDeveloper 11g. I was off course very interested so here are my first impressions. Instead of just unzipping the download as we used to do, …
Oracle Application Test Suite – for functional and load/stress testing of Web Applications (including Applets) & Web Services
September 26, 2008
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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A recent acquisition by Oracle involved a company called Empirix, that sold its e-Test Suite product to Oracle. Oracle is now integrating this product with Enterprise Manager, under the …
OOW 2008 Preview: JHeadstart 11g – best practices, structure – consistency and even more extra productivity for ADF 11g
One of the theme songs for this year’s Oracle Open World undoubtedly will be ADF 11g. All by itself (Web 2.0) and as the glue for Enterprise 2.0 (WebCenter) …
PL/SQL Table-to-Java Bean (and Data to Java Bean Manager) generator – useful for data driven demos without database
June 26, 2008
Database, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools
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The other day, I sat preparing for a demonstration of a data driven Java Web application. I preferred to be able to present the demo without actually having to …
How to quickly generate an XSD (XML Schema Definition) based on a Java Class Model using JDeveloper 11g
In the course of my current studies into XSD (XML Schema Definition) and how to convert from XSD to Java Class and vice versa as well as to Database …
Report from JavaOne 2008 – download session resources
May 30, 2008
AMIS, Databases, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Thursday 29th May – some 70 Java specialists gathered to discuss the main themes and findings from the 2008 JavaOne conference. Peter, Wouter and Lucas presented on their experiences …
Mapping composite primary keys in JPA How to work around a bug in Hibernate Annotations
A table without single-column primary key, Java developers don’t like them because it’s more work than just putting @Id on a field. When you’re using Hibernate Annotations you might …
JavaOne 2008 – Oracle releases Preview #4 of the 11g Fusion Middleware stack
May 7, 2008
Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Tools
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This morning at JavaOne 2008, Oracle officially announced the availability of the Technology Preview of its 11g Fusion Middleware stack. With the production release of Fusion Middleware 11g only …
Subversion 1.5 Presentation at JavaOne
That Subversion is popular among Java programmers is no big surprise. If it needed proof, the huge line of people waiting to get into the “Subversion 1.5: Great New …
Automated SOAP testing with maven and the SoapUI plugin
March 26, 2008
Continuous Delivery, IT, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web/Java
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Currently there are few tools that can support testing SOAP interfaces. Both Jmeter and SoapUI are suited for testing soap interfaces. SoapUI is explicitly created for testing SOAP interfaces …
Using SoapUI on Apache ODE to test your BPEL processes more quickly
On the SOA-training I’m following we’re using the Oracle SOA Suite, a very nice product, but the time needed between saving changes and deploying the process takes way too …
KC presentation on CodeGen…
On February 21st I did a presentation on CodeGen at AMIS. Just a short presentation on what is possible using this great tool. I have created a couple of …
Should we use JHeadstart for our ADF Project? It is NOT a black or white decision!
One of things we do at AMIS is develop sometimes fairly complex applications built on the Oracle ADF technology stack. On several occasions, we have been working closely together …
APEX and/or ADF – demonstrating two similar yet different applications – part 3 – the implementation in ADF
December 24, 2007
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle Application Development Framework, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In a previous article, I showed two versions of more or less the same application. One created in APEX by Dimitri Gielis, the other built using ADF and JHeadstart …
Opening and extracting Zip files in java – It’s there for a while, but I just found out
A while ago I found out that it was possible to open Zip files with Java. Just open a regular java.io.File and pass it to the java.util.zip.ZipFile constructor. It …
Maven based configuration management with automatic build number
An important questions in software deployment and testing is “What is the version of the software I am looking at”. It is frustrating for a tester or an end …
Compile and invoke your webservice client (generated by XFire) in a running JVM
Generating XFire client files isn’t that special, but with Java 6 it is possible to compile those files immediately and invoke the webservice within one application. When I told …
Integrating JAD decompiler into JDeveloper
In JDeveloper, when debugging or otherwise navigating to classes that JDeveloper does not have the source code for, JDeveloper generates a "stub source", showing you only the fields and …
Battle of the Geeks 2007 – An eyewitness report
Yesterday I attended the Battle of the Geeks. It was hosted by Finalist at the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam. There were four presentations about different subjects. CMS Container, …
How to Unit-test private methods
I know it’s kind of wrong to test private methods and there are a lot of articles and books that will explain you why. But sometimes you have an …
Minify all your JavaScript and Stylsheets automatically with YUI Compressor and a Servlet Filter
In this article I will explain how to minify all your .js and .css files automatically with a servlet filter. This means you only have to define a servlet …
Maven JMeter plugin and report generation (the last steps to get it working)
August 8, 2007
IT, Java, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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JMeter (http://jakarta.apache.org/jmeter/)is a powerful tool for functional and performance testing web applications. JMeter, opposed to selenium, also works perfectly on generated applications (like Oracle ADF ). One of the …
Getting started with JPA mapping : How IntelliJ can map your data with a few clicks
With JPA, there finally is an ORM standard and every major IDE has support for it. Today I will show you how to map your data with IntelliJ IDEA. …
The four major Java IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ IDEA and JDeveloper
An interesting article was recently published on The Server Side: It discusses a shootout in Cologne between Java IDEs: Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ and JDeveloper. While the author – …
Getting started with Eclipse 3.3 WTP 2.0 and JSF – will this JSF editor beat JDeveloper?
A few days ago a brand new Eclipse release popped up in my RSS reader. Eclipse 3.3 with WTP 2.0. After browsing through the new features I was very …
JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 Patch Release available on OTN
As of yesterday, the JDeveloper 10.1.3.3 release is available for download on OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/jdev/htdocs/soft10133.html. Apparently, this release is only a patch release with bugfixes (see http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/jdev/htdocs/10.1.3.3/fixlist.htm for an overview …
Four Dutch Experts in ODTUG Kaleidoscope Expert Panel Session
June 19, 2007
AMIS, Databases, Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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From different posts on this blog it should be clear by now: the ODTUG Kaleidoscope conference has taken off. I am writing this post as I am attending the …