Oracle has released an Early Access version of Project Raptor.
Project Raptor is a new, free graphical tool that enhances productivity and simplifies database development tasks. With Project Raptor, you can browse database objects, run SQL statements and SQL scripts, and edit and debug PL/SQL statements. You can also run any number of provided reports, as [...]

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The result are in, there are actually three winning teams: AXI, Oracle and LogicaCMG. And the stunning thing is that all three teams were using JDeveloper. AXI in combination with their own framework. Oracle was using JDeveloper 10.1.3 with Business Components and ADF Faces (JSF) and LogicaCMG was using OracleÂ’s JHeadstart. Congratulations to Oracle for [...]

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Some years ago I found out about this class being very usefull in your application. You never used a ThreadLocal? I’ll explain the concept and provide some examples.
So what’s the difference between a thread-local variable and a normal variable? When a thread accesses a thread-local variable it has its own independently initialized copy of the [...]

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The year has almost come to an end so it’s time to look back. In general I have to say, 2005 was a surprising year. Surprising as refreshing. Surprising as emerging. Finally the tendency, already started in 2004, to make (enterprise/web) development more straight forward has been evolved into mainstream body of thought. Some [...]

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Last couple of months I’ve been using this online bookshelf from Safari.
With this service you can search across, read, browse through 3500+ technical books. I should note that they have all the recent titles, be it on Java, OO, WebServices, .NOT etc. I’m using this service on a personal account (about € 10,- per [...]

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Just having ‘fun’ today exploring the new framework Oracle has launched a little time back. For some time Oracle JDeveloper 10.1.3 EA (Early Access) has been available. It boasts the new stack of technology for Oracle. The technology stack (for us) consist of:

Business Components (ADF BC)
JSR-227 (The binding layer)
ADF Faces (Oracle’s JSD implementation

Nice to play [...]

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Within LogicaCMG we organize an event called the NLJUD. A strange acronym for something called “Nederlandse Java Update Dag”. The guy or girl who invented this aconym is yet to be found and propably hiding somewhere. If I had made up such an awfull acronym I propably would do the same thing. But nevertheless
The [...]

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I am happy to announce that two of my fellow employees (from LogicaCMG) have entered and won the Rad Race at the JavaPolis. Congratulations go towards Pascal Alma and Pascal Prins who entered the contest with a toolbox filled with Oracle goodies. (Oracle JDeveloper, JHeadstart and ADF etc)
It is fair enough to mention that [...]

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While installing MySQL for development purposes I remembered an announcement from Oracle in which they introduced Oracle Database 10g Express Edition (aka Oracle XE). According to the announcement and the Oracle website, XE is an entry-level database based on the code base of it’s big brother (or sister) that is free to develop, deploy, and [...]

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During a session at the JavaPolis, hosted by Sun and BEA, a few carefully placed sentences attracted my attention. The Vice President/General Manager of the BEA Workshop Business Unit aka Bill Roth mentioned that 75% of preparing WebLogic is put into the effort of making WebLogic scalable, extensible etc. So why not open up WebLogic [...]

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