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 t...May. 8, 2010 07:34 AM EDT Reads: 2,527
A couple weeks ago I blogged how to configure Apache JMeter for testing Oracle's ADF. This week to complete the set, I'll post my findings on stress testing Oracle's Application Express (Apex) with JMeter . Both posts are related to an earlier post on how to record sessions in JMeter...
There’s a growing focus on PaaS (Platform as a Service), particularly as Microsoft has been rolling out Azure and VMware continues to push forward with its SpringSource acquisition. Amazon, though generally labeled as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is also a “player” with its Simpl...
VMWare and Salesforce.com joined hands to launch VMforce which they claim the world's first enterprise Java cloud. Not sure why it is the first enterprise cloud for Java? We have Java-based cloud solutions from the industry leaders Google (AppEngine), Microsoft (Azure) and from other c...
This Wednesday I gave a presentation on 'Java in the Cloud' at the Phoenix Java User Group and lot of people attended it. I was thrilled with the interest in cloud and great to see cloud enthusiasts here in Phoenix. Lots of people asked for the presentation.
Monitis, a provider of all-in-one Cloud-based network and application monitoring suite, has announced a major new product launch: Java Application Monitoring.
Using their leading-edge hosted software as a service (SaaS) approach, Monitis’ Cloud-based Java Application Monitoring Tool...
No one is talking about the Web 2.0, AJAX, SaaS, or SOA these days. It doesn't mean that no one is using these technologies, it is just that these are not the buzzwords anymore. The latest buzzword is "Cloud Computing".
Every one is talking about building apps in cloud or moving the a...
As you probably know JSF 2 is a major upgrade over JSF 1.2. One of the major additions to this version of JSF is standard Ajax support. This article covers Ajax features in JSF 2. If you are familiar with RichFaces and specifically the a4j:support tag then learning how to use Ajax feat...
Dan Gillmor has a terrific piece that looks at what’s worrisome about the iPad and its fawning embrace by the very media that hope to be saved by it.
First of all, this change is a stab in the back to Adobe, that invested heavily into enhancing the upcoming CS5 release with the ability to EASILY create iPhone applications in ActionScript. Apple kept quiet (chuckling in the bushes) for all this time and made this licensing change jus...
Under JDeveloper 11g ADF Business Components introduced the support for Groovy expressions. Among other benefits this allows JDeveloper programmers to skip many trivial Java programming tasks with a shorthand Groovy expression. Grant Ronald's 
If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, the signs of spring finally coming to life are all around – crocuses shooting up from the ground, buds on trees and green lawns. It just so happens, too, that, at this time of the year, we’re seeing stronger signs of new life in the economy and i...
I often get asked about ‘REST to SOAP’ transformation use cases these days. Using an SOA gateway like SecureSpan to perform this type of transformation at runtime is trivial to setup. With SecureSpan in front of any existing web service (in the DMZ for example), you can virtualize a RE...
In the Twitter project we’ve been working on, one of the map’s we’re running breaks the text of a Tweet down into words. Because we can’t assume that any data will be available for access via a database, etc, we attach a couple of values that we’re intere...
From a constrained viewpoint, the WebSphere CloudBurst Appliance serves as a virtualization management solution for WebSphere application environments. In that light, I cannot tell you how many times customers ask me to delineate WebSphere CloudBurst from the other virtualization manag...
Gartner this week released a report entitled "Citizen Developers are Poised to Grow." The report by Gartner Analyst Eric Knipp describes how forces like more computer literate employees, cloud computing and better tools are fundamentally changing the role of IT.
Eric paints a vision...
I wanted to touch on how a RIA Services can be exposed as a Soap\WSDL service. This is very useful if you want to enable the exact same business logic\data access logic is available to clients other than Silverlight. For example to a WinForms application or WPF or even a console app...
Enhancing its industry leading content management suite, Oracle today unveiled Oracle® Imaging and Process Management 11g and Oracle Forms Recognition. Both products are components of Oracle Fusion Middleware and are part of Oracle’s strategic solution for Enterprise Application Docume...
How SolidWorks grew to $400m a year in revenues by helping their VARs become world class business leaders.
SolidWorks was started back in 1993 with the vision of bringing solid modeling for mechanical design to the masses. Before SolidWorks entered the market, solid modeling was onl...
As BIRT 2.5.2 was released recently, I wanted to post on some of the new features available in the release. BIRT 2.5.2 represents a maintenance release, which is generally dominated with bug fixes and not new enhancements, but this release does have a few that are worth noting.
The SQ...
First, let us review what is the concept behind services, with particular mention of the web services themselves.
A service is a business functionality exposed by a simple interface. Note that it is not an object, nor a method, nor a module, not a procedure. It is pure business functi...
The JDev11gPS1 New Features page lists a large amount of improvements, including something called the "Declaration Insight". The New Features blurb lists this feature as "When declaring local variables from method calls, declaration insight can automatically add the declaration and ass...
I’ve spent the last couple of days, after absorbing the Sybase acquisition of Aleri’s assets, looking at the various CEP players websites for evidence of cloud (grid name du jour) deployment.
I haven’t found anything worth mentioning. That’s not to say that I might have missed some...
BIRT offers several ways reports can be deployed. The AJAX based BIRT viewer can be deployed to your application server, the BIRT tag libraries can be used or you can deploy the Report Engine in your application. You can also modify any of the above options, given that the source is av...
I noted in the last 11gPS1 release of JDev (well, at least I didn't see it in any earlier releases) that the text editor has a few additional facilities available under the Source menu:
BIRT supplies scripting hooks for just about every report element in the palette. You can generally implement an onPrepare, onCreate, and onRender event handler for each of these report items. The onPrepare event fires before data is retrieved and allows you to change the design for a ...
A while back I posted about using Groovy within our ADF BC EOs to expose the 
So you’ve bought into the idea of service-orientation. Congratulations. You’ve begun to create services throughout your internal corporate network. Some of these run on .NET servers; others are Java services; still others are Ruby-on-Rails—in fact, one day you woke up and d...
I've been working in the software development industry for coming up on 20 years now. In fact in 2011 will officially mark my 20 year anniversary since graduating from college and entering industry. Over that time I have worked in a wide variety of roles, some of which include junior...
Yesterday, I finished my dinner in a French restaurant with traditional crème brulee. This time I’ve also ordered a small glass of Sauternes wine. Then we went to our friend’s house to follow it with some good old port.
But no matter what software developers drink or eat in Februa...
Thanks to some assistance from Richard Wright from Oracle Corp on the 
Edward Screven, Oracle's chief corporate architect, mentioned that Oracle would not be offering Sun's long-planned and highly-vaunted compute resource service.
They will just play the role of supplier to components and pieces that can be used in cloud services;
From the beginning...
If you have not been actively working with J2EE containers, open source or free databases, and obscure Java tools, then getting started with OpenJPA may prove to be more challenging than just learning the API. I am going to work through this from scratch and take you with me. OpenJPA i...
Under JDev 11g when you start playing with importing Bounded Task Flows (BTF) through ADF Libraries into a master ADF application, you're likely to start encountering the errors JBO-34010 and JBO-25058. This post discusses why these errors occur in context of ADF Libraries, and composi...
Analyst Gartner released a report that says IT spending globally will grow this year a total of nearly 5% over 2009 and reach $3.4 trillion.
From a "Great Recession" point of view, that's good news because IT spend actually fell by nearly that much from 2008 to 2009. Plus, it's a ch...
If you are using Actuate's JSAPI to run BIRT reports and you wish to pass parameters from a SEAM component this can be done very easily. In addition you can combine SEAM remoting with the JSAPI to do some interesting things. For example assume we create a SEAM component that retrieves ...
"The ease of designing a web page in Visual WebGui is unmatched to any other web solution I have evaluated… Visual WebGui was easy to get acquainted and got me started with building an architectural plan within few working days." ISG always looks to update and upgrade its ERP solutions...
New Relic announced that their RPM product supports GoGrid Cloud Hosting Infrastructure and is available for a limited time with preferential pricing. RPM is an on-demand tool that companies can use to optimize, monitor and troubleshoot their Java, Ruby and JRuby applications within a ...
In enterprise IT no one just raises salary if there is a way to hire someone else for less money. It's just not in the corporate culture where people are treated as nameless resources. Have you ever wondered why policemen get lower salaries than Java developers even though people in th...
Here at Layer 7 we get asked a lot about our support for REST. We actually have a lot to offer to secure, monitor and manage REST-style transactions. The truth is, although we really like SOAP and XML here at Layer 7, we also really like REST and alternative data encapsulations like JS...
