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Do you believe that the day when programmers could focus on one language in
their jobs is gone? Thanks to the ever-changing IT landscape and the
uncertain financial times, contemporary developers are expected to work with
a wide range of platforms, frameworks, languages as essentially "masters of
all and specialists in none." You need your IDE to move with the times too,
moving beyond the simple compiler and debugger to solve the challenges that
contemporary developers face. Oracle JDeveloper is such an IDE. From a
fledging Java IDE over 10 years ago, today JDeveloper 11g is a complete
end-to-end development platform, including a strong declarative programming
model that removes the need to write everything by hand in Java, a mature
framework used by Oracle itself in its own products that encompasses
Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) and Web 2.0 fun... (more)
A while back Gerard Davison blogged some simple examples of using WS-Security
Policies. Gerard's specific example dealt with the WLS policy
Wssp1.2-2007-Wss1.1-UsernameToken-Plain-X509-Basic256.xml. As Gerard notes
the said policy (further documented in the WLS 10.3.1 doco here) implements
user name tokens, encryption of the tokens and signing of the whole SOAP
payload.
The following post strips back Gerard's example to instead to consider the
steps in setting up and testing One-Way SSL for a JAX-WS web service
generated via JDeveloper 11gR1 and installed in WLS 10.3.1, using the... (more)
I was recently asked to write a book review on Processing XML Documents with
JDeveloper 11g by Deepak Vohra, among several other bloggers here, here, here
and here.
The thing about book reviews, like movie reviews, is the interpretation by
the reviewer is subjective. The trick is for you the review reader to work
out does the reviewer have the same tastes and likes as you. If yes that
should mean that the book review will be relevant to you potentially giving a
recommendation that suits your needs. If no you might miss a really good book
or waste a couple of those hard earned squ... (more)
A popular tool for web service testing is SoapUI. The following blog post
describes how to use it for testing a simple web service, as well as setting
up a series of tests and even load/stress testing. Without a doubt similar
documentation is available on the SoapUI website; my post gives my spin on
the product that maybe useful to others.
In this post we'll look at:
1) A simple web service example
2) Creating a simple test in SoapUI
3) Creating a test suite
4) Loast/stress testing your web services
Our web service
The web service we'll use here for testing is a simple Hello World exam... (more)
Sometime back I blogged about Stress & load testing web applications (even
ADF & Apex) using Apache JMeter. That post dealt with the generic setup of
recording a web session and then replaying under load via JMeter.
When considering using JMeter for JDeveloper 11g ADF applications there are
additional JMeter configuration steps required beyond that detailed in the
original post. As per the original post ADF passes around cookies to store
the JSESSIONID, and you can use JMeter's HTTP Cookie Manager to correctly
handle the cookie. However ADF also makes use of a number of parameters ... (more)
Chris Muir, an Oracle ACE Director, senior developer and trainer, and frequent blogger at http://one-size-doesnt-fit-all.blogspot.com, has been hacking away as an Oracle consultant with Australia's SAGE Computing Services for too many years. Taking a pragmatic approach to all things Oracle, Chris has more recently earned battle scars with JDeveloper, Apex, OID and web services, and has some very old war-wounds from a dark and dim past with Forms, Reports and even Designer 100% generation. He is a frequent presenter and contributor to the local Australian Oracle User Group scene, as well as a contributor to international user group magazines such as the IOUG and UKOUG.
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