Handling Service Calls from Oracle BPM

If you have never experienced during process design with BPMN that the final process model became twice, if not three times more complex than you thought it would be, than you haven't been doing process design for real. You might for example have experienced how, what initially looked like a (more...)

New Row Delete for ADF Form (ADF Webinar Follow-Up)

There was a question on ADF Masterclass Webinar (Video: ADF Master Class and ADF Blog Q&A, Andrejus Baranovskis (Part I)) about removing new row from ADF Form. I have a blog post about removing new row from ADF table - Immediately Removing New Row Without Validation in ADF (more...)

Grant Ronald and Susan Duncan for ADF Mobile SIG (UKOUG, London, May 21st)

ADF Mobile is one of the hot topics in ADF area currently. If you want to see it in practice and learn about ADF Mobile architecture, I'm sure you should join UKOUG SIG in London on May 21st. Check here for more info and registration link - UKOUG Run Full (more...)

Video: ADF Master Class and ADF Blog Q&A, Andrejus Baranovskis (Part I)

I was blogging about ADF for 7 years already, long period. I had a feeling this was a right time to bring it to the next level and have live technical ADF Q&A discussion with blog readers. It went well and I plan to repeat similar session later this year (more...)

(Automatic) Partial Page Rendering across Taskflows

One of the great features of ADF is the easy out-of-the-box support for Partial Page Rendering (PPR) using the partialTriggers, autoSubmit and partialSubmit properties. And when things get a bit more complex there is a very easy API to do it programmatically. But what if

Naming Members in vFabric SQLFire

I find it useful to give a member a meaningful  name. In SQLFire you could simply give each member a name by adding a property "name" as follows to the sqlfire.properties file for the member.

sqlfire.properties

# sqlfire.properties for data store or accessor member
license-serial-number=XXXXXXXXXXX
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Bryxx has launched!

On Tuesday, May 7 the Bryxx launch event took place. In the beautiful setting of the Flandria boat, and in the presence of a large number of customers, we revealed the services of this new venture. As a joint venture between the iAdvise and Contribute infrastructure teams, Bryxx will specifically (more...)

Feedback From a Recent Formspider Customer

Craig O'Neill is the Founder and CTO of CaoSys and a recent Formspider customer. This is the feedback he left on our Q&A site.

Sharing Data Between VO Instances in ADF BC

Probably you already noticed that by default data is shared between VO instances (or even separate VO's) based on the same EO. Newly inserted row into one instance becomes instantly visible from another VO instance. There is a way to control this behavior in ADF, this post is based on (more...)

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...)

Mobile Business Development seminar in Belgium and The Netherlands(4 and 6 June)

iAdvise organises a free seminar about Mobile Business Development on 4(Antwerp, Belgium) and 6(Breda, The Netherlands) June.

In this seminar we will discuss Mobile Development and Usability(UX – User Experience) in Mobile Development.
But we also compare different solutions, give pros and cons about: APEX Mobile, ADF Mobile and Tabris.

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JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2.4.0) Startup Mystery – JDK 1.6.0_24 Not Supported (1.6.0_35 Required)

New JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2.4.0) on Windows fails to start with embarrassing error after fresh installation, this is known issue and Oracle is fixing it. Seems like Oracle engineers missed it and released JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2.4) with wrong JDK. Once you install JDeveloper 11g (11.1.2. (more...)

Attending UIKonf

Yesterday I was in Berlin (always worth to go there) for attending the UIKonf: an iOS developers conference. The location (Heimathafen) was awesome! Pretty good atmosphere, and awesome coffee all day. Yay!

The talk line-up was good as well. They had four rounds of sessions. All in one room, (more...)

Duplicate Validation Error Message and ADF Bindings

One of the bug requests I was fixing during this week was related to duplicate validation error message display on ADF UI. This was quite annoying to the users - the same validation error message displayed twice:


There was nothing special about this validation rule, as any other validation rule (more...)

JMX access to vFabric SQLFire

With the release of vFabric SQLFire 11 we can now start a JMX manager with the locator itself. To do that we add the following to the sqlfire.properties file of the locator itself.

jmx-manager=true
jmx-manager-start=true
jmx-manager-ssl=false
jmx-manager-http-port=8083


Then with the locator started we can verify we have it running (more...)

Explain Plan in vFabric SQLFire improved

With the recently released vFabric SQLFire 11 version the query execution plan is much easier to read then previously. An example below.

  
[Wed May 01 11:32:11 papicella@:~/sqlfire/vFabric_SQLFire_11_b40332/pasdemos/sqlfire ] $ sqlf
sqlf version 10.4
sqlf> connect peer 'bind-address=localhost;mcast-port=12333;host-data=false' as peerClient;
sqlf> explain select * from emp where deptno = 20;
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Offline Oracle Service Bus Configuration export

With Oracle Service Bus PS6 or 11.1.1.7 we finally have an new offline build tool with does not require Eclipse (OEPE).  With this OSB configjar tool ( located in the OSB home /tools/configjar/ folder ) you can make OSB export sbconfig jar based on 1 or more (more...)

Using Java WebSockets, JSR 356, and JSON mapped to POJO’s

So I have been playing around with Tyrus, the reference implementation of the JSR 356 WebSocket for Java spec. Because I was looking at test tooling I was interested in running both the client and the server side in Java. So no HTML5 in this blog post I am (more...)

How to start learning Formspider

Here are a few  resources to help you get more value out of Formspider but let’s get the most important question out of the way first:

When Can You Be Productive with Formspider?

In our experience, it takes between one to two weeks for a PL/SQL Developer to become confident (more...)

Webinar: ADF Master Class and ADF Blog Q&A, Andrejus Baranovskis (Part I)

I was blogging about ADF for 7 years already, long period. I feel this is a right time to bring it to the next level and have live technical ADF Q&A discussion with blog readers. My idea is to organize live ADF call with you - blog readers, we can (more...)