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Slides for the presentation I did with Grant Ronald during UKOUG 2011, last week in Birmingham. The abstract for this presentation: “Many organizations run enterprise Oracle Forms applications created in the 90s. They now wonder about the future of their application.This session tells how modernization of the application landscape could take place, [...]

At December the 1st, 2011, Oracle announced it’s new major release, the 12c release. As Oracle added the i (internet) at its 8 release, the g(gridcomputing) at its 10 release, now the focus will be on the c(cloudcomputing). Many new features come out of the fact that Oracle has made its key application server ready for [...]

Sometimes apparently complex things turn out to be very simple to achieve using ADF. And occasionally it is the other way round: things that seem to simple that you never gave it a second thought are in actual fact not so straightforward after all. One example of this is the situation when a taskflow is embedded [...]

Working on a WebCenter 11g Portal application, I recently ran into a challenge: when the user clicks a link in a task flow, the result of that action should be that the user is navigated to another page with a another taskflow that should display content based on context defined through the specific link that [...]

This article accompanies an article on the Architecture section of Oracle Technology Network (OTN): Implementing the Enterprise Service Bus Pattern to Expose Database Backed Services. It provides a detailed description of the implementation of the ESB architecture design pattern – the same that is introduced in the article on OTN – using Oracle Service Bus. [...]

The situation: in an ADF Faces 11g page, we have a popup with two buttons: one to start a download and one to cancel the popup. When the users presses the download button, a fileDownloadActionListener is activated, the corresponding server side method is invoked to start producing the content to be downloaded and eventually the [...]

When you create a “Report with Form”, there will be an icon in the report which allows you to navigate to  the form page. Only when the user clicks the icon this navigation will take place. For the current project, this was not what they wanted. They wanted to click on the row instead of [...]

In this blog I will describe how to set the composite title with a Mediator component. I will also describe where this approach matches and where it differs from setting the title with a BPM or BPEL component. Lets first start with an overall important match: you need the setCompositeInstanceTitle function. This function sets the [...]

In this blog I will describe how to set the composite title with a BPEL component. I will also describe where this approach matches and where it differs from setting the title with a BPM or Mediator component. Lets first start with an overall important match: you need the setCompositeInstanceTitle function. This function sets the [...]

In this blog I will describe how to set the composite title with a BPM component. I will also describe where this approach matches and where it differs from setting the title with a BPEL or Mediator component. Lets first start with an overall important match: you need the setCompositeInstanceTitle function. This function sets the [...]

The functional requirement for my ADF application was fairly simple: the values used for the bind parameters in one ViewObject should be reflected for a second ViewObject. In more functional terms the requirement was the following: when we filter the master records – Employees – by begin year and end year (to only show employees [...]

UKOUG 2011 is nearby and one of the coolest things in Oracle 11g and onwards is, IMHO, a functionality called XDB Repository Events. Most of you probably know that based on XMLDB functionality in the database, the database also can be used in a File server kind of way by enabling the XDB Repository HTTP/FTP [...]

Yesterday I received the announcement of the new Oracle WebLogic 12c, on the 1st of December 2012. You can register for a webcast on https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?target=registration.jsp&eventid=375727&sourcepage=register So, what’s there to be expected. Personally I think WebLogic has been made Exalogic ready, according to Mike Lehmann, Director of Product Management for Oracle WebLogic. Some of the few features I expect: More [...]

Some time ago… at a Oracle SOA 11g project, we had to call an external webservice which took 1 to 5 minutes to respond. The composite calling this webservice was called by another composite from a BPEL process. As you might guess, we got an timeout resulting in faulted instances. Increasing the timeout time wasn’t as [...]

Many thanks firstly to Ahmed Jassat, author of “Cloning from 20hrs to 20mins using Oracle Dataguard” & also to Alexander Reichman, author of “Interacting with BPEL/Workflow from Oracle Forms 11g”.

Ahmed is an Oracle Apps DBA based in South Africa & his White Paper focuses on a client site where he has worked & how implementing Oracle Dataguard has reduced the cloning time dramatically for them & the impact this has had on the business. A must-read for any DBA/Technical Managers, DBAs, Apps DBAs & disaster recovery teams.

Alexander is a certified Oracle DBA based in Canada & his White Paper focuses on integrating Oracle Forms 11g with Oracle BPEL/Workflow included in the Fusion Middleware 11g platform. A must-read for any Oracle Forms Developers, SOA Architects & Project Managers.

Many thanks for your contributions guys!

On the one hand: the organization wants to publish a real Web Service, SOAP enabled and all. On the other: the data to be provided by this Web Service is maintained in Excel files and undergoes regular changes by people who are well versed in Excel but absolutely blank when it comes to Web Services. This [...]

A few months back, in August, I received an electronic copy of the book: “Oracle WebCenter 11g PS3 Administration Cookbook” by Yannick Ongena (Packt Publishing, 2011). I promised you then you write a review on it and now I finally deliver on that promise. Main conclusion: if you want to get started with WebCenter 11g, this [...]

I was lucky enough to get my hands on the Method-R Profiler and had a test drive with it. So first of all what is it? As you might expect a profiler, a profiler for Oracle performance problems. The tool makes use of Oracle’s trace facilities. If you have a performance problem with the database [...]

Below is my presentation from the OGH DBA, SOA & BPM Day on November 8th. My talk was about achieving instant agility with application, through the ability to manipulate behavior and look & feel of applications at run time. And also to provide various flavors – parallel versions – of the application through customization. Oracle Fusion [...]

Some people were asked to review my book, here are some links: Edwin Biemond http://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Weblogic-Server-11gR1-Administration/dp/1849683026/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1320912495&sr=8-5 Jurgen Kress https://weblogiccommunity.wordpress.com/2011/11/09/oracle-weblogic-server-11gr1-ps2-administration-essentials-book-and-ebook Markus Eisele http://blog.eisele.net/2011/11/review-oracle-weblogic-server-11gr1-ps2.html Frank Muntz http://t.co/ukq1SUx6