At the moment a college has asked me to think with him about a big contract. It’s mainly about the bigger things in development life and forced me to think about developing bigger applications than we have done until now. This fortunately fell together with the talk Duncan Mills had at Guru4Pro (see other article) [...]

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As Okke stated earlier, Duncan Mills has made a visit to the Netherlands to speak on an event called Guru4Pro. Guru4Pro is a series of presentations given by knowledgable guru’s. The first of these presentations was given by Duncan Mills of Oracle. Duncan has been working in the field for 18 years in total, of [...]

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Finally got around to doing something with the new Oracle JDeveloper version 10.1.3 that went production a little while back. I’ve written a little about my first impressions that i had with the Early Access, but now it’s time for the ‘real deal’.
As a test i recoded an little application we made for a customer. [...]

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Last friday and saturday LogicaCMG organised an internal RADRace. The man who made the assignment was nobody other than Ivan Verborgh, the man who makes the assignments for the international RADRace.
The assignment was to make a webbased application with which people could apply for a license plate. It had to contain at least:

Multi-lingual screens
A webservice [...]

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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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One of the things we like about the Oracle Frameworks is open-ness and extensibility of the frameworks.
During our project we encountered the infamous web application problem of having two users edit the same data. The database and framework lead us to a few nice exceptions that resemble ‘RowInconsistentException’ or ‘RowAlreadyLockedException’.
The Oracle ADF Business Components framework [...]

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Spring is going Webservices! Or a bit more specific, Spring is going SOAP. Arjen Poutsma has sent this message to the world during the last NL-JUG J-Fall conference. On his blog you can find the nitty gritty details.
Personally I think it is a good idea to build a Spring based framework and not be [...]

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During a java meeting about the use of (open source) frameworks there were a number of interesting conclusions. Frameworks are not used for the following reasons:

Lack of knowledge by the team members.
Most projects are fixed date. To minimize risks, projects use the known solutions (based on experiences of the team). There is no time to [...]

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A few days ago JbBoss announced the beta release of a new EJB3 and JSF based application framework: SEAM. Yet another framework? Should I invest some time or just ignore it like all the others that came along the last one and a half year?
An interesting post on the groupblog of Hibernate opened my eyes [...]

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The never ending religious war about frameworks, which to use for what purpose in combination with yet another framework, will probably really never end. Nothing wrong with that, good discussion about the technical fundamentals of your next j2ee project can better be fought out before you start coding. But instead of fighting, it might be [...]

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