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...)

Master-Detail ADF BC Web Service for ADF Mobile

It seems like a bit unclear for the developers if ADF BC Master-Detail relationship can be reused out of the box through ADF BC Web Service in ADF Mobile. Short answer - yes, it can. In order to prove this I have developed sample application - second level Master-Detail relationship (more...)

The Case Against "But Apex is free" Argument

One of the initial reactions about Formspider from any audience is “But Apex is free. Why should I pay for Formspider, when Apex is free?”

Good question...Let me answer that.

Building a simple java client for forecast.io

I like to be outdoors when life allows so weather is always an interest for me. So i was very pleases to see forecast.io becoming available with global coverage after being jealous of the US only "DarkSkys" app. It was also nice to see that there is a nice (more...)

ADF 11g PS6 Table Pagination and Displaying Selected Row Issue

There was a post about new ADF 11g PS6 feature Table Pagination - ADF 11g PS6 - ADF 10g Table Pagination Feature is Back Finally. I had a question from the reader in the comments, about displaying selected row from the page range other than the first. Reader was saying (more...)

Major Formspider Pricing Update for PL/SQL Developers

We recently ran a survey among our users and asked them what we can do better. Interestingly, the biggest pain point wasn't about the product but in the way we licensed it. Our licensing made it very difficult for developers to start small. After a few email exchanges with several (more...)

Trip-Report OUGN Vårseminar 2013

That was a packed week. After a few days at home I had to jump on a plane again to visit Oslo. This was my second time there after last year's JavaZone. This time I was invited to speak at the famous Oracle User Group Norway (OUGN) Vårseminar. Which turned (more...)

Oracle BPM 11g Mobile Worklist with ADF Mobile

I have developed ADF Mobile application to bring BPM worklist tasks to the mobile device - I would like to share concepts of such ADF Mobile application with the community. The whole idea is based on BPM Java API to access BPM Context and get currently assigned tasks for the (more...)

Docufy: Document Generation for APEX made easy!

APEX is well known for his RAD solution and the no-extra cost factor: APEX makes it possible to build on time and within budget your database application for the web. But an application is more then building pages for CRUD operations. Very often you also need to generate well looking (more...)

OTN Interview by Yolande Porier about Java EE 7

After the successful first Devoxx UK a few weeks back my interview with Yolande Porier from Oracle Technology Network finally got published on Parleys. She had some nice questions for me about my involvement as an individual with the Java EE JSR expert group, and my views on Java EE (more...)

Java 7 Update 21 Security Improvements in Detail

Oracle released three updates to Java yesterday. It is important to note that they contain several security related changes. The majority of those changes have been announced since a while and first thing to notice is, that Oracle ships as planned.
Oracle's Java Platform Security Manager Milton Smith recently gave (more...)

Formspider Reference Application is now online

You may now play the Formspider Reference Application online. The Reference Application shows the best practices in Formspider for the most common use cases developers encounter when building applications.

Oracle DB 12c, APEX 5.0 and APEX tech sessions at OGH APEX World

April 9th 2013, APEX World took place, one of the biggest APEX only events in the world, organized by the Dutch Oracle user group (OGH). iAdvise was gold partner of this year’s edition. Below is a view on this event from our perspective.

iAdvise stand

iAdvise booth

The event (more...)

Handling DML Events Synchronously with vFabric SQLFire

SQLFire provides synchronous cache plug-in mechanisms to handle cache events. This example is a synchronous listener. A listener enables you to receive after-event notifications of changes to a table (insert, update and delete). Any number of listeners can be defined for the same table. Listener callbacks are called synchronously, so (more...)

BPM 11g R1 Worklist Integration (Hacking Experiment) Into Non-SOA ADF 11g R2 Domain

We all know there are no Oracle SOA/BPM available for ADF 11g R2 platform. In practice it happens to run both environments in parallel - Oracle SOA/BPM 11g R1 for process applications and ADF 11g R2 for ADF applications. Obvious question in such situations - how to access BPM 11g (more...)

Multiple Files Upload – Unlimited Files Upload in ADF 11g PS6

Among other new components and features available in ADF 11g PS6 - there is one very important. File Upload ADF Faces component was upgraded to support multiple or basically infinite file upload. This is good to see how ADF framework is progressing with each new release, this is another argument (more...)

How To Control ADF Table Pagination on Runtime and Do Case Insensitive Search

I decided to update my sample app from previous post - ADF 11g PS6 - ADF 10g Table Pagination Feature is Back Finally with option to change page size dynamically on runtime. Change between scroll and page mode is implemented, plus case insensitive table column filter option is enabled. Updated (more...)