October 28th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Here’s the updated FAQ. Short summary: Oracle plans to keep and invest in all Sun products such as: Netbeans, Glassfish, MySQL, VirtualBox, and OpenOffice.
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 20th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in java, oracle, oss
So Oracle just bought Sun. At first look it might seem like closed source versus open source. Most of Oracle’s well known products are closed source, whereas most of Sun’s products are open source. But that’s not the full story. Oracle is also involved in Open Source. It just takes a different approach. There are [...]
April 6th, 2009 | by akoelewijn | published in oracle, oss, software development
Interesting discussion on friendfeeds new database usage: How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data. It’s basically a key-value database implemented on top of mysql, to get around schema-change and index performance problems in mysql. There is a lot of activity around non-RDBMS databases recently. Although it’s always interesting to see new development and innovation, [...]
December 22nd, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Just before the end of the year Oracle has made a lot of new technology previews available on OTN: Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Technology Previews. Technology preview 3 for JDeveloper (new features list), SOA Suite, and Webcenter. The Webcenter link doesn’t seem to work, maybe it’s not up yet? And de SOA Suite download page [...]
November 16th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
According to Adobe employee and RIA Cowboy James Ward Oracle’s been demonstrating a lot of applications using Flex during OOW 2007. Ward has a couple of postings on his weblog describing applications (including some pictures) using flex: Metalink, Bi Publisher, Enterprise Manager, Siebel CRM, Sales Prospector and Sales library. The pictures are a bit fuzzy, [...]
November 14th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
This is a small example for a coworker, but maybe someone else can also benefit from it. This question was “can we store multiple xml document types in one column and easily query on xml contents”? First create a table with an XMLType column, and insert some data: Query documents using an xpath expression in [...]
November 14th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
Oracle’s xquery implementation contains a sqlplus like tool which you can use to run simple xquery statements. You can find the xquery implementation in %JDEV_HOME%/lib. To run it, use the following statement: A simple xquery example: You can use xquery to query data in a database table. First you need to specify the database connection [...]
November 12th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in Uncategorized
Today oracle announced Oracle VM (Data sheet), a server virtualization product. According to what i’ve read it’s based on Xen. This shouldn’t be a big surprise as RedHat Enterprise Linux 5 includes Xen, and Oracle’s Linux is, let’s put this nicely, based on RedHat Enterprise Linux. The good news is that Oracle is supporting their [...]
October 19th, 2007 | by akoelewijn | published in software development
The first week of November i’ll be giving antoher training about JEE and Oracle ADF. During this 4 day training you can learn about building applications using EJB3, JPA, ADF Bindings, ADF Faces and JSR-181 web services. There are still some seats available. The training will be in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. More info: Enterprise Applicatieontwikkeling [...]
