Pascal’s Blog

For my current project we are performing a Business Process analysis. The goal is to catch all relevant business processes in a Business Process Model. This model will then be used as base for a SOA implementation of a new system, which will support the customer in his business much better then the current system.
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Although there have been preview releases available for some time, last week the production release of JDeveloper 11g came out. And because I finally had some time to have a look at it, I decided to give it a go. I have been using JDeveloper since version 3.1 and as you can imagine, I have [...]

Since Oracle has released the Oracle XE database, I have been using it with great pleasure. It made my life much easier when I want to investigate new features in Oracle software and I need a ’simple’ database for it. Until then I had to install the complete Oracle Enterprise Database and although this process [...]

Sometimes you might want to get a quick impression of the memory usage of your Java application, or more specific, of your Oracle ADF application that is running on OC4J. There are a lot of tools (profilers) available to let you investigate this to a very detailed level. But most of the times these programs [...]

For one of my Oracle ADF projects I had to make use of a scheduler, so every night I could execute a batch job to create some large dump files that the user wanted to have. After a quick search I found there is a scheduling framework available in Oracle AS/ OC4J. Since we are [...]

In my former post I already said that I don’t like the JDeveloper wizard for creating Web Services. Although it is working fine and very easy in JDeveloper, the result is a web service that is only able to run on a OC4J instance! You can read about it in this (old) thread.
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At one of my customers when we create a new release of our application (consisting of several WAR files) we have to supply one zip-file with all the WAR files in it. Also a zip file containing the compiled Jasper reports must be added to it. Although this can be done by hand, it is [...]

For my current project I am migrating several projects from JDeveloper 10.1.3.1 to JDeveloper 10.1.3.3. After migrating my WebService project I deployed the application to my local Standalone OC4J instance and ran my test suite in SoapUI to test the migrated services. But to my surpise, all requests failed! They all gave the same [...]

Like I posted before I am currently working on the transition from Ant to Maven to build and package our application. One of the tasks that is performed by Ant is compiling the Jasper Reports (from the .jrxml files to the .jasper ones). Of course there is a plugin for this task: the jasperreports-maven-plugin.
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For one of my current projects I am changing the build process for our application from Ant to Maven. I think this is becoming a quite common change nowadays (at least it's the third project in a rather short period I am involved with this change). And although Maven has its characteristics, I am still [...]