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How to determine the exact version number of the Oracle Application Server (OAS).On the Application Server you can find a file named ias.properties in the folder ORACLE_HOME/config. In this file there in an entry (Version) containing the version number…

The moment your Form logs into the Oracle Database and an error occurs, for example when your password has been expired, it is no longer possible to retrieve the error from the database. With older version of the database it still worked and the Headst…

Lastly, I’d like to thank everyone who is passionate about technology. If you understand that technology is a means to an end and not the end itself then you understand that in the end it is people who count the most. At the end of the day, it is peop…

This is my first published article this year. The German iX magazin published an article of mine about the pitfalls of Java’s time and money features. Temporary employmentTime and currency calculations in JavaDealing with time and currency formats in J…

My mule configurations files often contain proxy settings for connectors that are used to communicate to the outside world. However during development and testing I can’t use the normal proxy, since i’m mocking the outside world.
Littleproxy is a j…

I am pleased to announce an Early Draft Review of JSR 308, which extends the Java language in Java SE 8 so that annotations may appear on essentially any use of a type.

This generalization of annotations with respect to Java SE 7 (where annotations m…

Sometimes there are unique requirements, for example we want to allow access to application screens only from single browser tab. If application screen is accessed within the same session, but from another browser tab – access should be disabled. In or…

The Aquarium is a great source of inspiration and most recent information about Java EE progress across all relevant specifications and reference implementations. They picked up a presentation by Oracle’s Shaun Smith (blog/twitter) about the status and…

If your connected to a SQLFire member who unexpectedly disapears or is shutdown SQLFire will automatically ensure that client swicthes to another server within the distributed system without the need to reconnect as demonstrated using SQLFire command l…

This tutorial explains how to build and use menu bar in a Formspider application.

Traditionally EBS-extensions are built in tools like Oracle Forms, Reports and BI Publisher. Most E-Business developers master these traditional skills (e.g. PL/SQL, workflow).
Oracle now propagates a shift towards Java (Oracle Applications Framework (…

The 11th part of my “Heroes of Java” interview series. Thanks for following it! Stay tuned for the next parts!Trisha is a developer at LMAX, the London Multi Asset eXchange. She’sbeen working in financial markets for the last 5 years or so, but afear o…

With the Oracle Technet Virtual Developer Day coming up a great VirtualBox appliance came available. The developer day focusses on developing Java EE6 applications and Oracle WebLogic Suite 12c.
WebLogic Server 12.1.1 VirtualBox Appliance
The virtual m…

You probably followed my posts about testing more complex scenarios with embedded GlassFish (Part I / Part II). Next on my list of things to do was to get this setup working with latest WebLogic 12c. Getting StartedFollow the steps in the getting start…

Previously I have written about using Hudson to perform pre-flights using branches on source control systems; but sometimes you just have a patch file that you want to run your tests against.

It turns out this can be quite simple, you just need to mak…

Often we need to access environment variables across all layers of ADF (Model and View-Controller). Usually we store environment variables in session scope, this makes them accessible for the duration of user session. Its common practice to retrieve va…

Java Embedded activity can call a custom Java class that relies on 3rd party Java libraries. This means that a lot of existing functionality from the Java open source community is at the disposal of the BPEL developer. This article shows a simple examp…