The Citizen Developer – also known as the Line of Business user – is the non-technical but still somewhat IT-savvy member of a business department. She may configure web surveys, create macros in Excel spreadsheets, perform complex data analysis or maintain a departmental web site. She does things that touch […]
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ADF Faces: Handle task in background process and show real time progress indicator for asynchronous job using Server Push in ADF
Recently I received an email from Peru. An ADF developer from Peru was facing a challenge with ADF. In short: ‘the upload of a (large) file should be followed by a potentially long running job. Ideally, the browser would not freeze while the uploaded file is processed and on top […]
(Slides for) Push to the limit – rich and pro-active user interfaces with ADF (Oracle Open World 2011)
Below you will find the slides for my Oracle Open World 2011 presentation Push to the limit – rich and pro-active user interfaces with ADF on  ADF’s active data service and other facilities to do client to server push as well as JMS to Client push and Database to Client push. […]
JDeveloper 11g PS 1 has been released – cool stuff!
Last month during Oracle Open World I wrote an article on the upcoming features of PatchSet 1 for JDeveloper 11g: . Now this release has been published and is delivering on those promises. For an overview of all (?) new features, take a look at What’s New. It is a […]
ADF 11g – Validation of Uploaded Files with the inputFile component
Today we had a little issue with the inputFile component in ADF 11g, especially with its behavior after failed validation. Our situation: the inputFile component has autoSubmit set to true – so immediately after selecting a file in the browser dialog is the upload started in an asynchronous request. […]
ADF 11gR1 – new Hierarchical Viewer for visually pleasing representation of data structures
One of the data visualization tags required by the teams working on the Oracle Fusion Application Module for Human Resource Management, was a component capable of rendering organization charts. Hierarchical structures from CEO all the way down to the youngest trainee. In a pleasing, graphically interesting, somewhat animated fashion. […]
That's Rich! Putting a smile on ADF Faces (presenting at ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009)
The ODTUG Kaleidoscope 2009 conference started on Sunday with four parallel symposia followed by a stunning demonstration of the upcoming Fusion Applications product based on Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g (including the most visible parts: WebCenter and ADF) – more on that presentation in a later blog. On Monday I did […]
ADF Faces RC – Highlight partially refreshed areas to enlighten the user about automatic updates
One of the rich aspects of ADF Faces RC (and most Web 2.0/AJAX components) is functionality that performs Partial Page Refresh operations: actions by the user trigger asynchronous communication between browser and server that in turn may cause selected areas of the page to be refreshed. For example: entering a value […]