Last month Oracle released a statement of direction for SQL Developer (here it is). Apart from the enhanced testing capabilities the most important feature will be the support of graphical logical and physical data modeling - just like you normally would do using Oracle Designer - using the acquired CDW4ALL extension. This modeling can be [...]

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Using the Preferences of SQL Developer you can register a User Defined Extension (UDE). This UDE is just a small XML file containing a command or query. If your Oracle Designer Repository is queriable by the user you use for your connection, you can show the Table Definitions in Designer alongside the definitions in the [...]

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and wants to upgrade to Forms 10g without the fuss of upgrading Headstart 3.4.2 to 6.5.4?
At our Oracle Competence we run a succesfull Designer/Developer migration solution in which we had to upgrade a Designer 1.3.2 repository to 10g, including the use of the latest version of Headstart.
It’s no fun to modify all the Forms code [...]

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At our Oracle Competence we run a succesfull Designer/Developer migration solution in which we upgrade Forms from version 3.0-9i to 10g. Every now and then one of our customers raises the question if it’s possible to run Oracle Webforms in client-server mode “like they used to do”.
The arguments against running webforms in a browser are [...]

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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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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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Here in Rijswijk we are working on our first ADF Faces project. We already tackled some stumbling-blocks so far, but I thought this stumbling block was worth mentioning here on blogging about oracle. It can maybe help those who are newbies (like me) concerning ADF Faces.
I tried several different approaches to handle Partial Page Rendering [...]

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One of the most important aspects of system development is, in my eyes, the acceptance of the product by the customer. One of the things our customers are quite particular about is the look-and-feel of the application. It must follow their house rules to be accepted.
In the UIX era we would override the renderers (especially [...]

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I found a nice blog where the future of Forms is described. Click here for the complete article.
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What is a web service anyway?A web service is a software component that can be called from another software component.Communication with web services is done via the SOAP protocol. Web services can be implemented in any environment (well, in theory). They can also be called from any environment, as long as it can handle SOAP [...]

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