Category: Tools
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Leon van Tegelen January 4, 2005 AMIS, Announce / Events, Development Tools, IT, Java, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Tools, Web HTML5 CSS3, Web/Java 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 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.
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
A quick’n dirty tutorial-by-example for Hibernate: (Using one table, an Oracle9+ database and Hibernate2) 1) download the Hibernate distribution 2) put these jarfiles in /WEB-INF/lib: hibernate2.jar (hibernate core) cglib-full-2.0.2.jar …
Some links to get started with Hibernate: Quickstart with Tomcat "Hibernate Your Data" – ONJava Quickstart Configuration Properties Hibern8IDE
I was working on a Ant build file which includes a doc task generating the Javadoc for our project. Running the task from the command line worked just fine. …
For anyone who wants to get started with Eclipse 3.0 and CVS, for future reference I quote a section from the “Eclipse Tips — July 21, 2004”, as it …
For a very extensive comparison between seemingly all the O/R mapping tools known to mankind check this wiki page. Perhaps a relevant observation: despite the zealoting, Toplink, OJB and …
The Eclipse webtools subplatform is live, with two initial code submissions from Lomboz and IBM. More info here. The submission by IBM is looking _really_ good: it’s like a …
In this post I want to give some pointers to/an overview of technologies for developing server side software in general, as well as one in particular: Attribute Oriented Programming, …
An interesting article appeared on OTN today: ANT 1.6 for Taskwriters. This article will show you that Ant 1.6 has also changed internally and how you can take advantage …
For a simple and generic solution to the boring and code-aesthetics ruining routine of catching rare exceptions in your Struts-actions, try a global exceptionhandler.
In Nancy Chen Junhua’s article on Developing Struts with Easy Struts for Eclipse she has some interesting pointers to documents on “Eclipse Aided Development” on IBM’s developerworks. In my …
Developing CMP entity beans with JBoss 3.2.4, Eclipse and the Lomboz plug-in, I encountered the following anomalies:
Yesterday I started research into the current state of affairs with regard to coding standards for J2EE development. We are looking for an up to date set of low …
The Lomboz 3.0rc2 release works perfectly together with Eclipse 3.0. You can download it here (lomboz.3rc2.zip). Please make sure to download the accompanying Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) plug-in too …
Want to see what’s residing in your database from Eclipse? Get the QuantumDB plug-in, and create a DB connection using a driver suitable for your database. From then easy …
After a promising start, getting me all enthousiastic about the new features described in the “what’s new” document, Eclipse 3.0 got to a grinding halt when i tried to …
I have tested JBoss via Eclipse with the Lomboz plugin along the lines of this great tutorial. I got it relativerly easy up and running and it is a …