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 [...]

If you have to use a where-clause being based on session-scoped parameters in several viewobjects, it might be good to know you also have a session scope in Oracle’s ADF BC Application Module. You get access to it by simply calling getSession() in your ApplicationModule. On the Session object which you then receive, you can [...]

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 [...]

In a former post I described how you could get access to the selected row in you af:table in your backing bean. This post takes it a step further and shows you how to deal with a multiselect table.
Let us first look at how to create a multi select table. Because this can’t be done [...]

I don’t know if it is just a coincidence but at almost all the Oracle ADF projects (ADF Business Components + Struts or JSF) I have done until now there was a need for additional functionality with which the user could duplicate a row and then modify it. After reinventing this thing several times, [...]

In an upcoming project, I have to work with the Oracle Internet Directory. The situation: there are some existing Oracle Report and Forms applications. I will help them to develop their first Oracle ADF application. All these applications will use SSO for the authentication and autorisation. The accounts for the SSO are stored in OID. [...]

Since a few releases Oracle JDeveloper (finally) got the refactor option. This comes in very handy, especially when you are training a group of Oracle Forms developers in Oracle ADF. Since ADF and Java is all new to them the chances are rather big that they make a mistake in, for instance, naming classes and [...]

This time just a post that doesn’t have any technical content. This time I just want you to show the impact that a blog can have.
When I started this blog, about one year ago, I just did it as a ‘best practice’ catalog for myself. I had experienced too often a situation in which I [...]

Although I am not using any of the Oracle tools or products at my current project I am still involved with it. One of the things besides my daily job is that I am going to ‘teach’ traditional Oracle developers how to use Java and Oracle ADF in their future projects. I am convinced [...]