Recent Posts by Grant Ronald

How many of you, when developing applications use code like: print("Got this far").  Yes, an essential debugging technique but messy as hell.  There is something a little smarter you can use: ADFLogger.  Its not dissimilar to the system.out.println you might be using today, but it allows you much more flexibility to define logging granularity and also to view the information in an interactive dashboard.  Duncan Mills has recorded a new ADF Insider which shows the power of the...

If you are thinking of installing Forms, I'd suggest go straight to 11gR2 if you can.  Of course, the path of software installation sometimes never runs as smoothly as you'd expect so nice to see Mia Urman of the Oracle Forms community writing up her experiences. She also documents what software you require for the installation.  Great to see Mia using her Forms experience to help others.

One of the common requirements when building an application on relational database tables is the ability to incorporate attributes from different sources into a data view which is more representative of the application requirement, rather than the database schema. ADF Business Components provides a powerful feature which can be used, for example, when viewing Emp data, you would want to displayed Department Name fromthe Dept table rather than just DeptId, which is less...

Early last year, my team developed an advanced ADF course that we ran globally, primarily to our internal Oracle audience.  However, we had such demand for this, we wanted to find a scalable way of delivering the same training, but at your pace, and without the cost associated with travelling.  We've therefore developed an Advanced ADF ecourse.  Part 1 of the the course has just been released and aims to take you from a quick overview of ADF, through bindings, project...

I'm pleased to announce that Oracle Forms 11.1.1.6 (which is a patchset) has been released.  I've posted an announcement on the Oracle Forms homepage.  If you click on the download tab you can find links to the certification and readme documents.  The patch itself can be downloaded from Oracle Support.

Chris Muir, who many of you will know as an Oracle ACE Director and ADF expert joined Oracle last week to work in the ADF Enablement team that I look after.  To kick off his new Oracle life, he has started a new blog which you can follow here.

A shiny new copy of Oracle JDeveloper 11gR2 Cookbook dropped onto my doormat this week.  The publishers have sent me a copy to review and so I'm going to start working through it this week and write up my thoughts in the coming weeks.  Apart from anything else, its great to see yet another ADF book pop up on the bookshelf.  Watch this space for my review...

Oracle's Middleware Partner Community are running a 4 day event covering WebCenter, SOA and ADF in Malaga this week.  I'm going to be there delivering the ADF Overview and Roadmap keynote (on the 7th) and on the 8th I'll be delivering a breakout session on  how ADF blurs the boundaries of declarative and 3GL development.

One of the key things we wanted to do with Oracle Forms is give users to the tools to exploit new technologies - and I've been talking about this in my blog recently.  But one Forms user who is taking this to the max is Francois Degrelle.  In this example, he uses and HTML map to show geographic data which can then be used to trigger a query into Forms. I think if more Forms developers can see the opportunities with complementing technologies then they can really push the...