As you might have noticed APEX 2.2 is available for download. On the download site nowhere is stated that is doesn’t work for on XE, but installing on XE fails directly. This is due to the following lines in the upgrade procedure in the file apexins.sql:

declare
t_edition varchar2(30);
edition_is_xe exception;
begin
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One of the requirement of our customer was to have searchforms on (almost) every page and to have texts be searched on case-insensitive and using wildcards. In other words, if they fill the value ‘e’ in the search form they should be able to find the following values ‘Eaaa’, ‘aaaeee’ and ‘aaaE’.
We followed Steve Muench [...]

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During the JavaOne, I already blogged about both GWT and IntelliJ. Today, I finally found a bit of time to start playing. While Teamserver has been renamed (renaming is not the right word, they brought it to the market and needed a sounding name) to TeamCity my attention was caught by the upcoming IDEA (their IDE) [...]

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We are creating some eye-candy for our customer using the new ADF Faces framework. One of the problems however was how to focus the cursor on another item after a partial page refresh.

When fillling in the field ‘Artikelnummer’ we want to do an ‘autoSubmit’ and depending on some logic we want to focus on the [...]

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Found on Javalobby a link to Russ Olsens Web Log, having a comment that pointed me to Martin Fowler who has written a nice entry about Buildix. A bundle of essential pieces of software that form the cornerstone of agile development. According to their website everything you need to get started in one easy install. You can download it [...]

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This is just a small blog entry about the way I am populating my selectOneChoice (i.e. dropdown-list) in ADF Faces.
Some problems we encountered when drag-and-dropping a selectOneChoice was that in stead of returning back the right value, it returned the index of the choice you selected.
One effective and simple way on how to populate your [...]

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If there is a requirement to produce output from an application into Excel, you would probably create a CSV (Comma Separated File) with the data and start Excel to show the data - at least that’s what I did…until now. The drawback of this solution is that you could only produce data and no nice [...]

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As you may have noticed we are developing our first ADF Faces application and learning a lot of new things.
Today i’ve finally stumbled on the way to call methods the usefull way. Is was stuck using method as ActionListener or Action and so having to pull everything out of bound items or another long way [...]

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I have a new lease car. Like many other people, I have to go through the traffic jams that block up the highways here in the Netherlands every morning and every evening.I often listen to the radio while I’m in the car. The CD player in my new car has written “mp3″ on it with [...]

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Building a Search Form can be deceivingly easy if you’re using ADF Faces as a framework. Steve Muench has put a very clearly explained screencast on his blog, but to save you some time we’ll just explain the key parts of quickly creating a Search Form in ADF.
We assume you have your model ready: View [...]

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