Java Tools & Frameworks

What? 3 posts in 2 days? After months of silence? Isn’t it amazing how time flies. Here in the JDeveloper Product Management group we’ve been busy all year with releases and conferences and many opportunities to get out and talk to people about the great features in our tool. But as the year draws nearer [...]

In my last post I gave examples of using both the pre-built reports and building custom reports on your database models.As a P.S. to that post I want to point you to the JDeveloper Help system that comes with diagrams to help you define and understand the Database Reporting metamodel. Below is the JDEV table [...]

In JDeveloper 11gR1 we introduced a SQL-like interface for reporting on your database models. Watch this demo to review the basic functionality. In the latest release we’ve added a set of pre-built reports. These reports not only get you started with reporting but also illustrate how you can use database reporting to ensure that the [...]

The Oracle JDeveloper code editor allows developers to navigate to a specific line in the source code using the ctrl+g keyboard shortcut. In this how-to article, I use the same approach, which is to allow users to press ctrl+g on a table at runtime to provide the row number they want to navigate to. The [...]

In this example, an alphabet index anchor menu is used to scroll an ordered ADF bound ADF Faces table. The example provided for download is based on the HR Employees table. Selecting an entry from the index menu, for example the ‘F’ character, scrolls the table to the first employee record that has this character [...]

Just learned today that Lynn Munsinger and my book ships in the US since December 11. I checked the Amazon website and indeed you could get it in time for Christmas (just in case you are looking for a last minute gift for your wife or husband). See yourself. The closer we got to Christmas, [...]

ADF users I meet often express an interest in ADF design patterns and best practices that we could/should carve out of what Oracle Applications exercises and experiences since the origin of Fusion application development in Oracle JDeveloper 11g. Not many know that there is a forum and website dedicated to those patterns. So to increase [...]

Funny, a co-worker yesterday called me about using the Expression Language MR stuff. Interestingly my body Lincoln wrote a blog on that one, a little while ago. Check it out. Good read!

When you download JDev, your application by default runs (and deploys) agains the Weblogic container. However, the ADF framework is running on different containers as well. My colleague Shay Shmeltzer gave me a list of instructions for different containers, today. Here it is: Glassfish (Version 2.1.1)*, by Mario JBoss 5 (part one and part two), [...]

As mentioned here, the ADS feature of ADF Faces supports “push channel sharing” since a very long time… The first window that hits a page which contains an active component, e.g. a <af:table> that is referencing to an ActiveDataModel implementation, becames the “master” window. This window maintains a persistent connection to the ADS subsystem. In [...]