August 26th, 2010 | by akoelewijn | published in java
In the past I used JAD to decompile java classes, but it hasn’t been updated to current java versions. So i tried the alternative suggested on the JAD wiki page: JD – Java Decompiler. It’s pretty nice: you can use the GUI to view the source code, navigate around with hyperlinks, search. You can also [...]
April 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oracle
Oracle is probably the biggest user of the java applet technology. Oracle Forms runs as an Applet in the browser. Now, Oracle Forms isn’t the hippest tool ever, people have been expecting it to die for a couple of years. But it’s still around. Mainly because Oracle still uses Forms in their Oracle E-Business Suite. [...]
April 8th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java
Google just announced that their AppEngine will support Java. The good new: AppEngine is going to use a fairly regular JVM, with some functionality disabled like sockets and file writing. It should support other languages that compile to bytecode, like Scala or JRuby. No mention of Groovy, but i hope that’ll work soon too. Update: [...]
November 27th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Last week continuum version 1.1 was released. It contains at least one feature i’ve been waiting for: automatically rebuilding dependent projects. I’m considering however, not to upgrade continuum, but to switch to hudson. It seems to be more widely used, which results in a lot useful plugins and better documentation. Time to testdrive both…
November 13th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Hidden in Steve Munch’s presentation about adf 11g features is the news that jdeveloper 11g technology preview 2 is available for download. Btw, there’s some good documentation about adf 11 available on otn: New Oracle ADF Developer Guide (pdf) & New Oracle ADF Faces Web UI Developer Guide (pdf) Update Looks like I’m having an [...]
September 27th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
It’s not yet announced on OTN, but Steve Muench has the news that JDeveloper 11 preview 2 is available. You can download it here (list of new features, Release notes).
September 26th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Most applications aren’t resolution independent. This causes really irritating situations. Most of our laptops have 15 inch screens with a resolution of 1920 by 1200 pixels. Hardly readable if you use small fonts. This means you have two options: either you turn on large fonts or you decrease the resolution. Both solutions are far from [...]
September 20th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Last Tuesday Ted Farell gave a short technical presentation about JDeveloper 11g in the Oracle offices in the Netherlands. Not too much new information, especially if you’ve downloaded the preview of JDeveloper 11. But the good news is that a new preview will be available soon, probably the begining of October. ADF Faces has improved [...]
August 17th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Over at the Amis weblog Sjoerd Michels has posted some example code illustrating how you can read values from an xml document into ant: Using Ant to inspect Connection Properties in WSDL Files that are generated by Oracle SOA Suite Adapters . This can be very handy at times when you are automating deployment of [...]
July 2nd, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
I started my xquery blog posts because i wanted to illustrate how you can use xquery to query xml documents in a java program. Most of Oracle’s examples are using Oracle’s XMLDB to demo how you can query xml in an Oracle database. But using Oracle’s xquery library you can query xml documents in java, [...]
