JHeadstart Blog

Steve Heidebrink is a regular at the JHeadstart OTN discussion forum, and in one of his posts he very kindly complimented JHeadstart as follows:

I'll admit, I'm always searching the open source space. So far, I see
nothing that is anywhere close to the generating abilities of JHS. Not
even on the .NET front.

It's great to hear that, Steve!

Lucas Jellema has posted an example that uses the new Deep Linking functionality of jhs1013: Show lookup details in popup (dialog) window using ADF Faces & JHeadstart 10.1.3. He refers to the JHeadstart 10.1.3 Developer's Guide that we're currently writing, and of which a draft version is available for subscribers of the JHeadstart Supplement Option.

Lucas mentioned that it took him some time to realize that he had to deep-link-enable the deeplink's target group. Thanks for the feedback Lucas, I have clarified this in the final version of the Developer's Guide!

We are getting close to releasing the 10.1.3 version of JHeadstart, with JSF and ADF Faces generation capabilities. In preparation for that, we updated the JHeadstart Product Center with new 10.1.3 viewlets, the draft version of the jhs1013 Developer's Guide, and much more. Check it out!

Ashraf asked how JHeadstart 10.1.3 can be installed. If you have access to JHeadstart 10.1.3 on the Consulting Supplement Option, you have probably read the instructions there:

To install this release,
download the zip file, start JDeveloper, go to Help > Check for
Updates and choose the option "Install From Local File". Use the
downloaded jhs1013-install.zip file as the local file.

That's all! It seems like it's getting easier with each JHeadstart release.

On the Supplement Option, besides the jhs1013-install.zip we also published a center.xml file. Using this file you can create
your own Oracle JHeadstart Update Center. This is useful if you want to
make new JHeadstart versions available to multiple developers within
your organization.

• Put this center.xml and jhs1013-install.zip together in a folder on your file share.
• Verify that the center.xml contains the
  correct build number for the corresponding install.zip.
  

Each developer can now perform the following steps:

• Open JDeveloper 10.1.3
  
• Go to Help > Check for Updates
  
• Click the Add button to enter a new Update center
  
• In the dialog box that appears type in:
  
  
  Name: JHeadstart 10.1.3 Update Center
  
  Location: Specify the center.xml file on the file share
  
• Click Next
  
• Select JHeadstart 10.1.3.0.x, click Next and Finish
  
• JDeveloper restarts and JHeadstart will be installed

After having specified the JHeadstart Update Center, each developer
can easily check if a new JHeadstart build was put on the file share,
by going to Help > Check For Updates > JHeadstart 10.1.3 Update
Center > Next.