Documenting Enterprise Architecture – IEEE 1471

Mike Walker has a nice blog post and links regarding the documentation of architecture. He talks about how the IEEE 1471 recommendation is being incorporated into an ISO standard with specific applications into enterprise architecture. I see this as a great step in advancing the craft of enterprise architecture. Related to my previous post on [...]

Learn how to use CSS with JavaFX 1.3

Jim Weaver has written a great article on using CSS support in JavaFX 1.3 to stylize client-side user interfaces.  In his words: “One of the hallmark features of JavaFX 1.3 is the introduction of JavaFX CSS, which provides the ability to apply styling to any element in the user interface. This article focuses on JavaFX [...]

Re: Text alignment in inputText element

This has been answered a couple of day ago…

B2B Import : replace flag

While doing B2B Import page, it is possible to either set true or false to replace flag, and the same is used in merging xml elements in repository. If Import set with replace = false , following new objects will be added to repository document protocol objects like version, type, and definition found in source [...]

Advanced reporting in Oracle Service Bus

Reporting in OSB is useful, it allows you to audit message going through OSB. The service bus console allows you to view the content that you reported. To report data you simply use the Report action in your proxy. The action itself is rather straightforward. You specify the content to report ($body for example), an [...]

cd

Do you know cd ? I thought I did until this afternoon … OK, let’s start some basic. I create two directories $ echo $SHELL /bin/ksh $ mkdir /tmp/foo $ mkdir /tmp/bar create a symlink /tmp/bar/baz pointing to /tmp/foo $ ln -s /tmp/foo /tmp/bar/baz create a file foo1 in foo $ touch /tmp/foo/foo1 change to [...]

Square peg, REST hole

For all its goodness, REST sometimes feels like trying to fit a square peg in the proverbial round hole. Some interaction patterns just don’t lend themselves well to the REST approach. Here are a few examples, taken from the field of IT/Cloud management. Long-lived operations. You can’t just hang on for a synchronous response. Tim [...]

Learning from Buzz

In life if something doesn’t work out, at least you can learn from it.  That is the power of doing.  The beauty of being a human being is that we are exceptionally good at learning from others.  As I watched Google launch Buzz, and the ensuing mess, it got me thinking.  Why did a project [...]

Mastering Details with Flat Files

The Problem The native format builder wizard in the file adapter is great at reading flat file structures but doesn’t support reading more structured file structures.  Sometimes we need to read more complex structures such as master-detail records.  Let’s look at how we can use the file adapter to read structured file formats. For example [...]

Setting encoding of an XML document

When you need to write an XML document into a queue/file, and if you wish to explicitly set the encoding on the xml document declaration, add the following onto the element of the XSD for the document that you are writing out. < xsd:schema ……. xmlns:nxsd=”http://xmlns.oracle.com/pcbpel/nxsd” nxsd:encoding=”UTF-8″ … > … < /xsd:schema > The output [...]