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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)
Within JDev 11g+ experienced ADF programmers will be familiar with
PageFlowScope beans used by tasks flows, in particular Bounded Task Flows
(BTFs) where they provide the equivalent of session scope for variables for
the life of the BTF for a specific user session. Indeed the Oracle
documentation says the following about PageFlowScope beans:
Choose this scope if you want the managed bean to be accessible across the
activities within a task flow. A managed bean that has a pageFlow scope
shares state with pages from the task flow that access it. A managed bean
that has a pageFlow ... (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 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)
Oracle on Ulitzer
WebLogic Server 10.3.1 supports loading user credentials and roles from a
number of different sources, such as LDAP or a database, through the concept
of "Security Providers". In order to work with a database table structure a
"SQL Authenticator" provider is required.
Edwin Biemond has a good example of setting up both the database table
structures and configuring the WLS SQL Authenticator against these tables. To
keep the example simple, for the password field in the JHS_USERS table
Edwin's has set the SQL Authenticator to write raw plain text passwords to
the... (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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