Dive into Oracle ADF      (Updated: 2/3/2008; 9:14:55 PM.) 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Strange that everyone ran into it this week. The problem related to the default date formatter object's inadvertent truncation of the time portion of your oracle.jbo.domain.Date valued attribute. I've written up the steps to workaround the problem by creating and employing a custom date formatter object in this quick little article. 11:37:22 PM     Edit and Continue Debugging for Java I noticed that "Soma" Somasegar, the guy who runs Microsoft's developer development, announced support for Edit and Continue in C# in the upcoming Visual Studio 2005 release last Friday over on his blog. While the C# development community is rejoicing on their various blogs and waiting for a beta preview that will support this feature they were clamoring for since the first Whidbey preview releases were released at last October's PDC 2003 conference, if you are a Java developer using Oracle JDeveloper 10g user, you can already take advanage of Edit and Continue for Java right now. Edit and Continue, otherwise known as "Hot Swap Debugging" in the Java world, takes advantage of features in the JDK 1.4 virtual machine to allow you to fix code while paused at a breakpoint, recompile the fix, then continue running your executing program in the debugger to try out the fix. In JDeveloper 10g, while stopped at a breakpoint, you can click a stack frame in the "Stack" window and pick "Pop back to here..." in the right-mouse context menu, then step into your fixed code and try out the fix. Pretty slick stuff, and production on the J2EE platform since April 2004 in JDeveloper 10g. 1:39:39 PM     Four New JHeadstart Viewlets The Oracle JHeadstart team has published four new viewlets on their JHeadstart OTN Home page that give you a sneak preview of the kinds of ADF-based applications they can code-generate automatically for you based on the additional application metadata that you supply. Definitely worth a look! 12:40:55 PM     Hvala to PlusPlus for the Kava and Chat Wanted to say a quick thank you to the guys I met from PlusPlus in Zagreb at the Croatia Oracle User's Group for the espresso and the nice chat we had. They are a small but prolific Oracle partner in Croatia that develops a slick-looking HR solution that they gave me a quick demo of, among other systems. Working on the full suite of Oracle technologies, they are like many of our long-time partners -- a microcosm of Oracle's own applications division --working in a combination of Oracle Forms and JDeveloper to build and deploy their applications as end-user interface requirements dictate. Always great to put a face with some of the names I help on the OTN JDeveloper discussion forum... 11:32:07 AM     Why is JDeveloper So Fast On Your Laptop? After giving my two presentations at the Croatia Oracle User's Group I was working away in the hall of the Sol Koralj hotel in Umag, enjoying the free wireless internet connection to get some work done. A guy from Dekod Telekom who had attended my talks came over to ask how JDeveloper worked so fast on my laptop. We went through the specs of our respective machines, and it seemed that we basically had the same processor speed and the same amount of memory. Yet, he said JDeveloper was really sluggish on his laptop. The one thing that came to mind was the real-time file scanning of virus checker software. I asked him to double-check that his virus checker wasn't setup to to real-time file scanning of *.jar files. We've seen from various reports on the OTN JDeveloper forum that running Java software in general, but JDeveloper as a particular example of that, can suffer performance-wise if you are virus-scanning every single JAR file that gets accessed. Hopefully by turning this off he'll be back to a zippy JDeveloper again. 11:21:23 AM     © Copyright 2008 Steve Muench.