Articles Oracle Forms, PL/SQL, Java, J2EE
The LAF site URL has changed. Here is the new LAF site URL. Francois
The new Forms Look and Feel Project 1.6.3 version is out. Some methods have been added to the LAF_XP_TextArea PJC multi-line Text Item to support huge contents like CLOBs/NCLOBs or big files. Get it now
For those who would like to consult my Blog on their mobile, here is the required URL: http://fdegrelle.over-blog.com/m/ Francois
Forms Magnifiers comes with a new 1.5 version that also take into account the images stored in the iconic buttons and the Image Items. Those images are scaled at runtime when the windows size change. get it now
I have just updated the Image Item Java Bean, that allows the end user to drag and drop an image file directly to the Image component. A new feature - SETTOOLTIP() - has also been added to attach a tooltip to the Image Item. See the new version Franc...
This month, there is two reporting solutions offered to embed in your Oracle Forms application: Jasper Report by Mark Striekwold PL-jrxml2pdf by Andreas Weiden Francois
Here is a very interesting blog entry from Mia Urman . It is a treasure for those who (don't want to) fight with that installation steps. See particularly the " Installation & Configuration: Tips & Tricks for installing Weblogic and Oracle Forms 11g"...
Grant Ronald has just published a "How to" that demonstrates how easy it is to use any external Web Service into an Oracle Forms 10g Application. Read the article
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This is a tutorial and an Oracle Forms tools that demonstrate how, in a single dialog, to launch any report with 0 up to 10 parameters. Read the Dynamic Report Launcher Francois
The Developpez.net's forum I participate on the Oracle sub-forums has just opened a new JDeveloper section . This forum is French Speaking only.
This version comes with bug corrections and a few new options. Get the new version .
Tristan Fabre has just finished a tutorial about how to build a media library with JDeveloper and ADF. Someone interested in?
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
Let's see how to define, initialize and handle Oracle collections with SQL, PL/SQL and Forms. See the Collections paper Francois
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Here is a nice article written by Rosario Vigilante about how to deal with the Forms parameters. Download the document (MSWord document).
I've just discovered that Laurent Schneider has published a book about "Advanced Oracle SQL Programming". As I already know and have learned from him, I am pretty sure this book would be a gold mine.
Jan Carlin from Oracle has just published a usefull Whitepaper on using Sun's plug-in with Forms.
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I often see on forums, questions related to the managing, for the client side, of record sets returned by stored functions. This is an article that shows some basic examples about how to manage record sets in a client side application. Francois
Sometimes, people want to perform actions normally provided with the Oracle Forms Webutil library.Unfortunately, and for unknown reasons, they don't want to install Webutil.... So, here is an article about how to write/read a file on the client machine...
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Mark Striekwold has included the JUNG project (Java Universal Network/Graph Framework) inside Oracle Forms. See the solution.
Oleg Tishchenco has provided a Java Bean to add information on standard LOVs that are not available in the standard product: - LOV number of columns - LOV column's width and title - LOV runtime size See the article
