For our migration to Oracle ADF we have to identify, which Forms and Reports modules are still really called. For Forms we already have implemented a call statistic. In this blog post I show you how you can automatically implement the same into over 200 reports.
Already 4 years we plan the upgrade from 11c to a new supported version. If you speak german and you are interested in some of our experiences, you should come and attend my presentation at DOAG 2020 Wednesday, Nov. 18, 15:00 online.
You have successfully versioned your Oracle Forms & Reports module with git. What if you could see the diff for your module after changes from your working copy or between two commits? See my solution with the tools from ORCL Toolbox and a Git difftool wrapper.
We try to be agile in developing and merging our features into branches when they are ready for use.
Today my presentation is confirmed: "Regulatorics: Offside is when the referee whistles". Maybe the German title will be better understood: "Regulatorik: Abseits ist, wenn der Schiedsrichter pfeift".
For security reasons and to prevent the configuration drift it is recommendable to use read only access of WebLogic configuration for analyzing problems. For read only access of configuration and logs WebLogic provides out of the box the group Monitors. Unfortunately you cannot access DMS Spy Servlet with this group, which is useful for analyse runtime values of the server. Only users which belongs to the Administrators group and therefore have full access can access DMS Spy Servlet and this is not configurable in WebLogic by default.
Today my presentation is confirmed: "Therefore, whoever binds forever: automate your tests". Maybe the German title will be the better understood: "PL/SQL: Drum test-automatisiere, wer sich sich ewig bindet!"
Yesterday I attend the annual barcamp DEVCAMP of the DOAG development community. There are mostly developers with SQL, PL/SQL, Forms & Reports, ADF, JET background and some Java, Javascript and APEX developers too. And not to forget: 1 dba and some managers. Here is my summary.
If you try the newest version 12.2.1.2 (or maybe earlier versions too) you see, that your managed server does not restart
For later creation of containers as needed in the deployment process we have first to build docker images whenever we do not find suitable one in docker hub.
Logging is a very useful feature of WebLogic. Unfortunately the log levels, which are set after a clean install of WebLogic or some of the Fusion Middleware product creates a lot of noise and therefore it costs I/O performance.
As I want later build Oracle docker images, some of this need a swapfile. Per default my used Vagrantbox does not have one, so later steps will fail.
As I want later build docker images and run docker containers I have to provide enough ram and disk space for this. Per default the Vagrantboxes have vmdk disks, these have a static size and are to small for my purposes.
As I want to decouple my development server from my computer as much as possible I want to create first a virtual machine with linux.
If you need TranslationHub (Windows only) for your forms and reports development please immediately stop if you plan to move to one of the these
This year I have decided to give the Javaland conference a try. I’m not a java professional, but in the program was listed a lot of interesting testing presentations, so my company booked for me.
If you try to install Oracle Forms & Reports 11.1.2.2 on SLES 11.3 than despite all installer checks are passed maybe you get a error message.
Today my presentation is confirmed: "Bob the Builder: Build/Deploy of ADF enterprise applications".
If you work with JDeveloper 12.1.3 and you work with code editor save actions the order of actions could be relevant for you. For an example you use lot of asterisk (*) imports and JDeveloper should edit the code to import only classes that you actually use in the code.
If you work with JDeveloper 12.1.3 you may missing the return type of methods in completion insight.
I have presented last week on DOAG 2014 in Nuremberg. For all non DOAG members - you can find the german presentation on Slideshare too.
This article describes how to standardize your JDeveloper Installation as requested in Planning & Getting Started - Team, Skills and Development Environments.
The presentation is ready, time for travelling now.
This article describes how to standardize your JDeveloper Patching as requested in Getting Started - Team, Skills and Development Environments.
This article describes how to standardize your JDeveloper Installation as requested in Planning & Getting Started - Team, Skills and Development Environments.
From now on I will create a series of lessons to implement the knowledge of the ADF Architecture Course from Oracle ADF product management. Here you can find the <videos and the presentations. This post will be the index of this lessons, so bookmark it for further use!
Today the official program is online for DOAG conference 2014 in Nuremberg. My presentation is confirmed "The Dirty Dozen - ADF Migration to 12c in the IKB".
Some days before ZeroTurnaround has released XRebel , a new tool to recognized problems in your web applications, when you make your developer test. This was promising, so I give it a short try for Oracle ADF applications.
I have presented today on DOAG Development 2014 in Dusseldorf. For all non DOAG members - you can find the german presentation on Slideshare too.
If you speak german and you are interested in quality assurance for your ADF projects you should come and attend my presentation at DOAG Development on 06/04/2014 in Duesseldorf.
If you tired from the android emulator speed you may have read Chris Muir’s article ADF Mobile: Avoiding the Android Emulator with AndroVM. In the meantime the successor AndroVM is GENYMOTION. Let’s integrate this instead now!
I have finished now my work on integrating last PMD version 5.0.5 into JDeveloper.
Do you know, that PMD can analyse XML files since version 5? Many of ADF files are XML configuration files - wouldn’t it be a good idea to create some static code analysis rules for ADF too?
After little code change in pmd the integration like described in some blogs from Shay Shmeltzer is now possible.
Do you see a slow start of your WebLogic managed server for Forms & Reports on Unix derivate? We had this problem too on SuSe SLES 11 and Forms and Reports 11.1.2.
If you create for an example a big adf application you may want to add all of your entities to one base application for reuse labels, validation and and so on. If you have a big database schema than in short time you have a problem to find your entity. In JDeveloper there is a neat feature to overcome this problem: working sets!
As I have seen in Oracle certification matrix Forms & Reports 11g 64bit is supported under Windows7 64bit. So I tried to install it and to work with it. Unfortunately there are serious bugs in it, please read for more information MOS Doc ID 1395965.1.
I have done the whole may scripting silent installs of several developer tools. Among them was Fusion Middleware 11.1.2 Forms & Reports. I see that oracle certifies the 64bit installers on win7 64bit and so I have successfully script this after a lot of time. I want not speak about the many errors in silent installers here. But what if you want to use TranslationHub too?
Sorry for a time without new post - but I have finished now my work on integrating last PMD version 4.3 into JDeveloper.
According to my last post today I will show you the basic configuration for forms 11g. Unfortunately webstart in forms 11g it is not as easy as in 10g, but it works too!
Many people miss in webforms the possibility to run forms as a separate application. They have a lot of problems to handle browser back button an so on. The good news - there is a way to do this with Java Webstart. The bad news - it is not supported by Oracle. But we run this since four years now and is very stable.