Pascal’s Blog

If you are using some kind of authorisation in your JSF application, you might have a look at the JSF Security project, if you haven’t done already. The reason why the JSF Security extension is developed is:
“The initial problem that the extension solves is to extend the JSF Expression Language (EL) syntax to provide [...]

When combining Oracle ADF and Oracle Reports, you might want to open a report in a new window by clicking a button in a ADF page. Anyway, this is exactly what I wanted on my latest project. When searching the internet I did find this post that describes a possible solution. But this solution wasn’t [...]

In one of our screens in our application (ADF BC + JSF) we had to make it possible to quickly enter data (to insert new records) without having to select a dropdown or List of Values, but with validation against the database. To implement this, we make use of PPR (Partial Page Rendering, a great [...]

For an Oracle ADF application (ADF BC + JSF 10.1.3.3) we are using a customized skin. This is a very powerful technique to have the look and feel of a JSF application being based on the companies wishes. With a few changes in an existing skin (that is for instance supplied by Oracle) you can [...]

For my current project we are building an application with Oracle ADF 10.1.3.3 (ADF BC + JSF). One of the functionalities they want is to show images that were stored in a Blob field in the database at a JSF page. After a short search it appeared that this can be rather easily done if [...]

Here is another kind of basic thing that you would like with ADF Faces but that just isn’t very intuitive. Imagine you have JSF page and you just drag-and-dropped a View Object at it as a selectable Read-Only table. Now when the ‘Select’ button, that is added automatically, is clicked you want to do [...]

In our project we use the JSF 1.2 Sun Reference Implementation as web layer. Although I find JSF much easier to work with then with the good old Struts, I am still missing some features in the Sun RI. These features are available in other JSF implementations (Oracle ADF Faces for instance). The most important [...]

Currently I am developing JSF1.2 applications by using the combination of JSF Reference Implementation from Sun and Apache’s Facelets. One thing you will need to do, sooner or later, is referencing a managed bean (or backing bean) from another manager bean. I found two solutions for this.