Customizing JDeveloper Preferences

I like to tweak some of the preferences in the Tools menu of JDeveloper. I thought I would document them here for my own reference and in case anyone else is interested. I'll try to list all the settings I typically change from their default. These are ordered and grouped (more...)

ADF Faces Client Behavior with Attributes

Last month I posted about the basics of creating custom ClientBehavior in ADF Faces. Now it is time to take the next step and enhance that example with ways to set attributes on the JSP client-behavior tag, pass these on to the client-side javascript implementation and use them in the (more...)

Custom ADF Faces Client Behavior 11.1.1 JSP tag

This post will show how to create your own ADF Faces client behavior JSP tags which makes them suitable for ADF version 11gR1, also known as version 11.1.1, and version 11gR2 (11.1.2) when not using Facelets.

ADF Faces client behavior tags provide declarative solutions to common (more...)

Deploy a simple ADF application to Oracle Cloud

I write sample applications to accompany blog posts. You can typically download the project as a zip file or get access to the subversion repository. But I also wanted to make it as easy as possible for people to see the running application. This where the Oracle Cloud comes in. (more...)

Performance diagnostics with ADFLogger

This post will show how to use the ADF Logger for performance analysis and how to instrument your own code so it shows up in this analysis. Every ADF developer should know, or learn, about the ADF Logger. If you are new to the logger than read up on it at the (more...)

SyntaxHighlighter at Blogger

Running a tech/developer blog means I will be posting source code and other technical text. This requires proper syntax highlighting and use of monospaced fonts. Unfortunately blogger.com doesn't really support this out of the box so we need to resort to 3rd parties. Alex Gorbatchev created an awesome syntax (more...)

Global DateTimeConverter without separators

We are developing an application where data processing speed is important and users have to enter a lot of dates into the system. This is replacing a legacy Oracle Forms system where people were used to entering dates without any separators. For example they want to enter 120613 for June (more...)

Welcome back!

I've been away from blogging for too long. My old blog succumbed to spam way back. It just got too bad and I ended up shutting down my blog.

I am now putting my faith back in modern anti-spam technology and giving it another try with Google's Blogger. There's just (more...)