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New skin for Trinidad

Apache MyFaces Trinidad is a widely used JSF component set. It is featured in the upcoming book on Apache MyFaces, written by me. The benefits of Trinidad include a large choice of components, built-in Ajax and extensive skinning possibilities. Until now, one of the shortcomings of Trinidad has... more »

New book on Apache MyFaces coming up!

For over a year I have been working on a book about the Apache MyFaces project for Packt Publishing. The book is nearing completion and is expected to be released February 2010.
The book will be covering the Tomahawk, Trinidad, Orchestra and Extensions Validator subprojects of MyFaces. Throughout... more »

Oracle ADF: set focus to input field in data table

At my current client we had the first user acceptance test of a new Oracle ADF application. We have a lot of data entry pages in our application, where database records are presented in editable tables. Each table has a tool bar, with a “Create new record” button on it. One of the things the... more »

Revisited: Oracle ADF and Virtual Private Database

At the end of my previous post, I stated:

There’s one more thing I’m not really sure of (yet). In section 39.7 of their Fusion Middleware Developer’s Guide, Oracle shows a (in my opinion rather hacky) way to make sure Session information is saved between different incarnations of the... more »

Oracle ADF and Virtual Private Database

As you probably know, Oracle ADF is a complete JEE application development framework from Oracle. It is targetted at companies that already have an Oracle Database and perhaps legacy applications developed with Oracle’s “Forms” technology. The client I’m working for at the moment is such a... more »