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				Did you know that when you put the @XmlRootElement annotation on any class you can have an XML representation of that class? When I first saw Java 6 I …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				I often need a database to perform some quick tests. I usually start my Oracle instance. This takes some time and for most things it’s overkill. So a database …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				About a month ago I read an entry on Dion Almaer’s blog about Google Guice. On the blog is a link to a video of a google tech talk …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Now that Oracle has given us a Technical Preview of JDeveloper 11g which includes the Rich Components – that will also be made available as open source library through …			
					
								
												
									
					
				The default colors of the first two bars in a bar chart are red and blue. We created a chart for a customer, but he wanted red and green …			
					
								
												
									
			
						
								 Jeroen van Wilgenburg
								 May 15, 2007
								 Architecture, Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
								
							 
					
					
				With JPDA it is possible to propagate changes to compiled classes to the server immediately. This is very handy when you’re debugging your class files. With some older applications …			
					
								
												
									
					
				You may have seen (blurry pictures of) screenshots of the dynamic table component for ADFFaces that Oracle started promising us some 11 months ago. It would have all these …			
					
								
												
									
					
				In JDeveloper 11g, as another example of declarative productivity, we can add a List of Values definition to an attribute in a ViewObject, indicating that typically that attribute whenever …			
					
								
												
									
					
				With the Technical Preview of JDeveloper 11g out now for JavaOne 2007, we can take a closer look at several areas in the tool and see where they are …			
					
								
												
									
					
				The (Oracle) Java community is currently buzzing because the first JDeveloper 11g preview is available for download at the OTN JDeveloper 11g page. I’ll give you a short introduction …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				We knew it was coming, now we talk about it. From Olaf’s Blog: http://blogs.oracle.com/olaf/2007/05/08#a84 JDeveloper 11g Technology Preview Software Online Demos Tutorials Oracle Containers for J2EE (OC4J) 11g Technology …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				The first day of JavaOne is continuing. It seems to reach out in many different directions, from SOA to Groovy, from mobile devies to JEE Application Servers. It is …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Here is your challenge: we have many thousands of developers, with many different technical backgrounds. Do not expect all our developers to be advanced Java programmers. They will be …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				In all my years as a project manager I always faced the same problems when setting up a project plan. The problem was not the plan itself but the …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Being able to generate our ADF Web Applications is a fine thing. JHeadstart can really get us a long way with our application. However, in most situations, JHeadstart will …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				Last week I participated in a ADF workshop given at AMIS by Peter Ebell and Lucas Jellema. "I followed a similar workshop almost 2 years ago. Back then it was …			
					
								
												
									
					
				A few days ago, the Oracle JHeadstart team released the 10.1.3.1 release. It was announced as ‘a point release’  but it turns out to offer a substantial chunk of …			
					
								
												
									
					
				A point release for JHeadstart has been made available by the Oracle JHeadstart team. For a point release, it has a surprisingly long list of new features. Among the …			
					
								
												
									
					
				After receiving a new, pretty powerful laptop, on Thursday and installing the Oracle BI Enterprise Edition on Friday, this weekend sees my first steps with the BI Publisher (previously …			
					
								
												
									
					
				The Spring DataBinder is not only useful to bind request parameters, you can also use the DataBinder on other parameters, like command line arguments, JSON objects coming from an …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				This problem probably sounds very easy and it is actually very easy, but it took me so long to figure this out I think it’s worth a blog. I’ll …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Yesterday we received the 10.1.3.2 release of JDeveloper, with the WebCenter design time; today we are presented with the WebServer Suite (Server) as well. Download from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/ias/htdocs/101310.html :			
					
								
												
									
					
				A very small article on a very trivial issue. I have a page with a Master-Detail construction with a (master) Table of Departments and a (detail) Table of Employees. …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Looking through the list of new features for JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 yesterday I suddenly noticed a feature that was not new at all, but that had so far escaped my …			
					
								
												
									
					
				One of the interesting new features that come along with WebCenter in JDeveloper 10.1.3.2, but hopefully are not necessarily part of WebCenter (licence) is the set of Customizable Components: …			
					
								
												
									
					
				It was hard to miss yesterday as weblogs around the world – just like telex machines in the old days – started ticking and buzzing: JDeveloper 10.1.3.2 is released! …			
					
								
												
									
					
				One picture speaks more than a thousand words (a pity for someone as verbally skilled and graphically challenged as myself). However, for once, I will try to let the …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Selection components, such as Radio Buttons. Dropdown-lists, Lists, Shuttles  and Check Boxes, are key elements of many a web page. Java Server Faces has a pretty wide range of …			
					
								
												
									
					
				In this article on bind parameter usage in ADF Business Components, we will discuss a feature that I recently found out about and that I think offers a lot …			
					
								
												
									
					
				In several previous posts – and some articles yet to be published – I discuss the development of new JSF Components. Of course the true potential of such components …			
					
								
												
									
					
				I recently discovered jQuery, it a blazingly fast Javascript-framework and has a very compact notation. Now some guy made a plugin to submit plain html forms with Ajax and …			
					
								
												
									
					
				It can easily be the case that in your ADF BC application many ViewObjects make use of the same bind-parameters, for example a bind parameter referring to the current …			
					
								
												
									
					
				In this article I would like to demonstrate another unexpected usage of ADF BC bind-parameters. In a previous entry I argued that bind parameters are typically seen as good …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Bind parameters (:paramName) are typically used in the Where clause of SQL queries underlying ADF BC ViewObjects. However, there is no rule that they can only occur in the …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Implementing role based authorization, linked either to JAAS or your home grown authentication and authorization approach, is pretty simple using JHeadstart. All it takes is configuring the JhsAuthorizationProxy bean …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Some things are almost to tiny to blog about. Then again, if a blog can save you a lot of work and frustration then, even it is about something …			
					
								
												
									
					
				Like many others, we use Subversion as our preferred source control system (scm). Since a few months an official JDeveloper extension is available which makes our ADF development and …			
					
								
												
									
					
				I just noticed that the Oracle BPA (Business Process Analysis Suite) is available for download from OTN: http://www.oracle.com/technologies/soa/bpa-suite.html . I downloaded the 236 Mb zipfile and did the installation …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				It is not a novel experience for me to have an article published. That has happened before. However, today I saw the article on JDeveloper 10.1.3.1 that I have …			
					
								
												
									
					
							
						
				Today my colleagues Wouter van Reeven and Ruben Boer hosted a lab about the OpenOffice.org Api. Regarding the timing it was very well attended. At the same time was …