Archive for December, 2008

Happy new year-2009

Posted on December 31st, 2008.

The end of the year 2008 is fast approaching so it is time for me to comment on what happened, good or bad, this last year.
First of all, I participated in a wonderful Oracle migration project which took most of the year to complete. I have been doing quite some programing with Java, Oracle [...]

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Static Google Map image Javabean in Oracle Forms 10g

Posted on December 30th, 2008.

Here is an output for a Javabean that shows the image from a Static Google Map.

The example shown here is for the google headquarters. The user inputs the address info in the Forms module and the Javabean takes care of fetching the data from Google Maps.
The process is done in two steps. First step [...]

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File Selection Dialog with Oracle Forms 10g (10.1.2): replacing some of webutil functionalities

Posted on December 24th, 2008.

When you have a directory with a complicated hierarchical structure (nested sub-floders), using webutil to browse the folder is inadequate. This is mainly due to the use of JFileChooser which is notoriously slow in this case.
Since most implementations use JInitiator, one way to circumvent this problem is to implement a bean that will make use [...]

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Migration is over and our Oracle Forms 10g application is now in production

Posted on December 5th, 2008.

We passed the test and our application has now been in production for 5 days.
A lot has happened since we started the Oracle forms migration to 10g (both the Database and application were migrated to 10g).
Some minor glitches did happen when our users started using the new webforms but overall we are having [...]

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