Francois Degrelle's blog

New Java Swing book

J2EE

Par Francois Degrelle

Chet Haase and Romain Guy have just published a book about "Developing animated and graphical effects for Java applications".I have not read it yet, but, knowing the reputation of these guys, I am sure that it is most certainly a gold mine for every Swing...

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JDev is not a major Java IDE? I can't believe it!

J2EE

Par Francois Degrelle

Could you imagine an article that discuss about serious Java IDEs that does not take into account the Oracle JDeveloper tool ?No, this article is not serious! See the Frank Nimphius comment If you want to write to the author, here is his email adress:...

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Forms : a Swing JTree that allows Drag 'n Drop

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a Java bean that allows the Drag 'n Drop within a Swing JTree item. This bean is proposed by Minas Lyrakis from Greece . This bean uses itself the DispatchingBean of Tom Cleymans . (so it needs the sun Java plugin 1.4 at least) You can Drag 'n...

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Forms Bean : how to dispatch an event from a PJC !

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a package that allows the dispatching of events from Java Beans to Forms on Beans that extend VBean, beans that use the FBean package and also PJCs ! No, you are not dreaming and there is no mist on your glasses, a PJC that dispatch event to the...

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A JSP page to upload local documents onto the database

J2EE

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a sample that explains how you can upload any local-machine document onto a database BLOB column via a single JSP page. Read the article

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Forms Java Bean : a Gradient painted canevas

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

I have provided several PJC/Beans that use the Java gradient to colorize some objects. Someone asked to me if it could be possible to apply this gradient feature to the whole Forms canevas. So here is a Java Bean that allows to paint the current canevas...

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Forms : a Swing button's PJC

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

Here is a Swing JButton that overloads a standard PJC's button. It allows to have a standard Forms button with some nice decoration features. You can apply a gradient color, set rounded borders, justify the label and also have a shadow behind the label....

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Oracle OID : get the employee's photo

Other

Par Francois Degrelle

I was asked to build a JSP page within our Portal application to show some employee's characteristics.It is easy to get all the common attributes with the search() method, but I never found anything to get the photo. Maybe this kind of function exists...

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Forms and other Oracle material : great site

Other

Par Francois Degrelle

Another great Oracle blog site with plenty of articles about Forms,J2EE and other Oracle stuff.The site is owned by Wilfred van der Deijl.It is worth reading ! Francois

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Forms and J2EE : the "hot fusion"

Oracle Forms

Par Francois Degrelle

This is the first anniversary of the forms-pjc-bean site, and I wanted to use this special event to present my "hot fusion" participation, or how to etablish a bilateral communication between a Forms and a J2EE application. Read the article Read also...

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