Great Presentation on migrating Oracle Forms to ADF Faces at ODTUG 2006
The title of this article is hugely misleading. Or somewhat at least. The presentation has to take place yet. And it is my own – so how great can …
Category: Tools
Verslag van JSpring 2006
June 16, 2006
AMIS, Databases, IT, Java, Software Development, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, XML
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JSpring vond net als JFall van afgelopen jaar weer plaats in de Reehorst in Ede, een mooie locatie en vooral goed bereikbaar met de auto. Er stonden weer diverse …
ADF Faces for MyFaces is now called Trinidad
June 12, 2006
Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Development, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Earlier this year Oracle donated their JSF UI components from ADF Faces to the Apache Software Foundation. Since ADF is more than a set of UI components it was …
Oracle BPEL PM – Invoking a (remote) BPEL Service from Java using RMI
Next Thursday, June 15th, I will present on the Dutch Java User Group Conference, on the integration between Java on the one hand and BPEL (specifically Oracle BPEL PM) …
The (AJA)X Files – On the built-in AJAX facilities of ADF Faces for zero-code Rich User Experience
Any article discussing AJAX is currently an instant hit. Articles talking about JSF (Java Server Faces) are also pretty hot. So the combination must drive the number of reads …
Map Adventures with Google, Oracle and Spring
In summer 2000 I started in the Field Service development team of Oracle’s eBusiness Suite (http://www.oracle.com/applications/service/srvonl_cont.html). The web form Dispatch Center contains four Java applets. One of them is …
Installing Oracle Grid Control 10 release 2 on SuSE 9.3 ES
With all those fancy plug-ins for Microsoft tools release 2 of Oracle Grid Control 10g seems to be a must-have. However, according to many postings on the internet, installation …
It's a Chameleon! About JSF Pages that change their appearance mid-flight (or: programmatic manipulation of JSF UI Components)
One of the features in Java Server Faces that distinguishes it from for example JSP technology, is the ability to access UI Components programmatically, at run-time. This makes it …
AJAX validation with Spring without changing any java-code
Oracle releases the UIX to ADF Faces migration utility
It was promised and now it has been delivered: The Oracle UIX 2.2 Migration Tool allows you to migrate a project built using Oracle ADF UIX to use Oracle …
Joyful Successor to Forms – Introduction to JSF (Java Server Faces) and ADF Faces
May 4, 2006
Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, PL/SQL, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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Developing Web Applications using Java/J2EE technology has not been a picnic over the last few years. It was often hard work, complex, not very productive and the results were …
Writing your own Eclipse plugin: How to show the blog headlines in Eclipse
Writing a plugin for Eclipse sounds scary and difficult. A few years ago I had to do a project with some other students for school. The project was writing …
Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
Introduction MDA stands for Model Driven Architecture. It is a framework from the Object Management Group (OMG). The basic idea about MDA is to generate code from visual UML …
Resizing images in Java using Java2D
Last friday a customer asked us if we knew how to resize images in java. Their clients are uploading images that need to be resized automatically. In the past …
Parsing RSS and Atom with ROME, easier is impossible
ROME is a java library to do things with RSS and Atom feeds. Things can be reading, writing, merging and converting. Because RSS and Atom feeds are a standard …
On Web 2.0, RIA, AJAX and Java Server Faces – 2 May 2006: Presentation and Demonstration by Backbase (16.30 Nieuwegein)
Who is not raving about Web 2.0, the advent of Rich Internet Applications, the marvels of AJAX and of course the wonderful, productive world of Java Web application development …
BPEL Project by Oracle and IBM – Open Source Eclipse BPEL Plugin
My first experience with BPEL was late 2004 using the Oracle BPEL PM and Designer plugin for Eclipse. Afterwards, I have worked primarily with the Oracle JDeveloper BPEL Designer …
Getting started with Cobertura – A Java Code Coverage Tool
Cobertura a coverage tool. A coverage tool shows how many lines of code are touched. In most cases you’ll use Cobertura to see how good your regressions test are. …
AJAX – What’s The Buzz – part two (slightly more in depth, on challenges and solutions)
In a previous article (AJAX – What’s the Buzz Part 1), we discussed the introduction to AJAX as a Design Pattern. We saw a simple demonstration leading up to …
Oracle introduces free database development tool
Oracle recently released its first production version of a graphical database development tool called “SQL Developer†(version 1.0) – formerly project Raptor. If you have ever worked with Oracle …
AMIS goes Spring
What’s the resemblance between Tai Chi and the Spring Framework? Nothing. …Hmm, it might be noted that both support in gaining an healthy architecture, the first regarding the human …
JDeveloper and Subversion
I am happy to see that a subversion extension is available for JDeveloper (10.1.3). Although it is still an early access version, it seems to work properly. Currently it …
Selenium IDE – plugin for FireFox – easy black box web application testing
March 1, 2006
Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3
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In a previous article, Introduction to Blackbox testing of Web Applications using Selenium I have introduced Selenium, a framework for Web Application testing – any HTML/JavaScript Web Application, regardless …
Introduction to Blackbox testing of Web Applications using Selenium
February 24, 2006
IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Software Engineering, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java
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After my visit tot JavaPolis, in December 2005, I wrote a brief article on Selenium, a tool for testing Web Applications. For one of our internal Knowledge Center Sessions …
JUnit 4.0 released – Annotations based TestCase definitions
Last week, release 4.0 of JUnit was published. You may have seen some of the announcements. The JUnit homepage (http://www.junit.org/index.htm)does not reflect this fact at the time of writing, …
Getting started with Unit Testing of JDBC based DAOs with the Spring Framework (introducing DBUnit)
For one of our Java projects, I wanted to help a colleague getting started with unit testing. Due to high time pressure, there was a real risk that – …
How to amaze yourself with your own old tools
About a year ago I designed and developed a “JDAPI-toolbox” while migrating a medium sized (ca. 600 modules) Oracle Forms 6i application to webforms 10g for a customer in …
Oracle Application Express (ApEx)
A 30-Jan-2006 Press release announces new name for HTML DB, see http://www.oracle.com/corporate/press/2006_jan/013006_appexchange_customers_finalsite.html
HTML Post Loading and Processing Resources using AJAX – Part 3: multiple, dependent resources and custom processing
AJAX opens up a lot of possibilities – that in truth by and large already existed pre-AJAX. In a series of articles, I am discussing the concept of post …
JDeveloper 10.1.3 is released. At last.
It has finally happened: JDeveloper 10.1.3 has been released. No news headlines on the OTN frontpage yet, but to be found on the JDeveloper download page: That went …
Skype 2.0 with Video Support released
Just announced, Skype 2.0 has been released. This version also supports Video calls! Have a look at http://www.skype.com/products/for more info. Click the “Video call” link at the bottom of …
OptimalJ impressions
I recently attended a three-day training workshop for OptimalJ (the Architect Edition). OptimalJ promises to provide a complete MDA solution, and this was my first opportunity to get some …
Getting started with ADF Faces in JDeveloper 10.1.3 – Using the Tree Component, comparison with MyFaces Tomahawk Tree2
After having tried the tree2 component from the MyFaces Tomahawk library – see: Apache MyFaces (open source JSF implementation) – Using the Tree2 Component with JDeveloper 10.1.3 -, I …
JDeveloper at the Frappr (GoogleMap) community.
As Frank Nimphius pointed out in his blog, a JDeveloper group has been started at Frappr. Come out and show yourself with a photo and your (current) location on …
JavaPolis 2005: what's hot and what's not?
As a first recap of my five days at Javapolis, here are my thoughts on trends, past, present and future of the Java platform. Expect to see more in-depth …
Three interesting announcements – EJB 3.0, Eclipse WTP and a new database: H2 (source included, Java)
Just browsing through my RSS feeds-reader, I stumbled across three very interesting announcements: JSR-220, the Enterprise JavaBean 3.0 specification, has reached Proposed Final Draft status. Programmers should expect that …
JavaPolis 2005 – The Web Tier
Many frameworks offer support for developing web applications. Allmost all of them implement the MVC pattern. They can be divided into two groups: action based and component based frameworks. …
Oracle Java Technology rules the JavaPolis RAD Race – three winners, using JDeveloper; two also using ADF
We just received word about the results from the RAD race at JavaPolis 2005. 12 teams competed against each other, each bringing its favourite technology stack. It is a …
Selenium – Browser based Tool for Integration Testing of Web Applications (JavaPolis Quicky)
Selenium, a test-tool for Web Applications, was the subject of one of the quicky presentations (15 minutes max) on JavaPolis this week. It is described as: Selenium is a …
JavaPolis – Observations From a Distance
JavaPolis, the major Java conference currently going on in Antwerp, Belgium, has multiple parallel tracks most of the time. Four or more sessions to choose from. So you cannot …