Oracle SQL Developer Release 2.1 Further Increases Productivity

Customers can increase developer productivity and simplify application development cycles using Oracle SQL Developer 2.1 – the latest release of the popular development and migration tool that comes with every Oracle Database. This latest release introduces two new key capabilities – PL/SQL Unit Testing and Data Modeler Viewer – in addition to a slew [...]

The Value of Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture (AIA) to IT Managers

Jose Lazares, Vice President of Oracle’s Application Development organization, speaks with Cliff about what AIA is, how AIA leverages SOA, and how AIA helps provide a pathway to Fusion Applications.

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Customers and Partners Take Advantage of Oracle’s Application Integration Architecture

Jose Lazares, Vice President of Oracle’s Application Development organization speaks with Fred about pre-built, sustainable integrations Oracle delivers to provide customers with end-to-end, industry processes across its portfolio of best-in-class.

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Working with Versioned Database Models

What? 3 posts in 2 days? After months of silence? Isn’t it amazing how time flies. Here in the JDeveloper Product Management group we’ve been busy all year with releases and conferences and many opportunities to get out and talk to people about the great features in our tool. But as the year draws nearer [...]

What’s new in Oracle WebLogic Server 11g?

Steve Harris, Sr. Vice President of Application Server Product Development, Oracle provides an update on the key, new capabilities in Oracle WebLogic Server 11g. Hear how your middleware infrastructure can accommodate more agile applications and learn about the unique design advantages of Oracle WebLogic Server 11g that make it more efficient for development and [...]

Oracle Middleware Strategy Update: Application Servers

Hear Steve Harris, Vice President of Application Server Product Development, discuss Oracle’s vision and strategy for application servers, Java virtual machine technologies, and the emerging application grid architecture. Learn how Oracle is integrating and unifying this comprehensive family of products and technologies including WebLogic, Oracle Application Server, and JRockit.

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Collaborate09 thoughts…

I’ve been meaning to write up my thoughts from this years IOUG Collaborate event.  Ian Abramson, the president of the IOUG, has a nice series of write ups on the event itself – starting with day 1 through day 3 and then a wrap-up post.  He describes it as a three day event – but [...]

Learn about .NET and Oracle at Collaborate07 in Las Vegas

The International Oracle Users Group (IOUG) will hold its Collaborate 07 conference in Las Vegas (April 15-17). If you attend, be sure to check out the .NET session and demonstration kiosk to hear more about new .NET features for Oracle Database 11g.
Session: Oracle Database 11g: What’s New for Java, JDBC, .NET, PHP, and OCI
This session [...]

Oracle Expands Its Channel Revenue Management Suite With Oracle® Price Protection

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Release

Oracle Expands Its Channel Revenue Management Suite With Oracle® Price Protection
New Offering Developed with Infosys to Realize Value from Faster Price Protection Claims
Redwood Shores, CA – July 13, 2009
News Facts
Aimed at distributors, Oracle today announced the availability of Oracle® Price Protection, a new application that automates the price protection transactional processes and [...]

Dialog Not Opening In A Popup Window In JDev 11g

We get a lot of questions at Oracle Support about the dialogs not opening in a separate, dialog window in JDeveloper 11g.
For example, suppose you specified the following:
faces-config.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="windows-1252"?><faces-config version="1.2" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee">  <application>    <default-render-kit-id>oracle.adf.rich</default-render-kit-id>  </application>  <navigation-rule>    <navigation-case>      <from-outcome>dialog:popup</from-outcome>      <to-view-id>/popup.jspx</to-view-id>    </navigation-case>  </navigation-rule></faces-config>
yourMainPage.jspx
<?xml version=’1.0′ encoding=’windows-1252′?><jsp:root xmlns:jsp="http://java.sun.com/JSP/Page" version="2.1" xmlns:f="http://java.sun.com/jsf/core" xmlns:h="http://java.sun.com/jsf/html" xmlns:af="http://xmlns.oracle.com/adf/faces/rich">  <jsp:directive.page contentType="text/html;charset=windows-1252"/>  <f:view>    <af:document>      <af:form>        <af:commandButton useWindow="true" action="dialog:popup" text="Open Popup"/>      </af:form>    </af:document>  </f:view></jsp:root>

Note the following properties:
useWindow=”true” action=”dialog:popup”
that should open the page as a popup dialog.

This worked correctly in JDeveloper 10g
In JDeveloper 11g [...]