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Sunday, January 09, 2005 |
It's hard to do justice in 1400 words to explaining the high-level similarities between Oracle Forms and Oracle ADF Business Components, but that is the task I've attempted in my first installment in the January/February issue of my recurring Oracle Magazine column DEVELOPER: Frameworks. In the column over the coming months, I'll explore various interesting technical tips and tricks of developing J2EE applications using frameworks. I hope the information will prove useful to Oracle developers who might be beginning to plan and experiment with doing future application development using the J2EE platform and its best practices.
I've started a page here where I'll keep archive links to the columns as they appear. If you've got ideas for a future column topic (remember, 1400 words!), send me an email.
11:16:37 PM 
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Since I do a lot of Powerpoint presentations, I've understandably become quite used to its facilities for drawing and positioning shapes. Powerpoint includes two features that I use all the time which I've been pushing to get included in the JDeveloper UML modeling tools in future releases:
- The ability to nudge a shape using the arrow keys.
Sometimes the keys just do a better job than the mouse for small movements.
- The ability to copy the formatting of one shape and apply it to another shape or set of shapes.
After I've spent the time to make one kind of shape have the fonts and colors I like, it makes quick work of making all the rest of my shapes look like that.
As I'm reading through my backlogged email from being out, I got a note that the developers have implemented the first feature in 10.1.3 (in a build beyond the first developer preview). Thanks, Gerard! I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we'll have time to get to the second feature above as well by the time 10.1.3 goes production. Should make getting your diagrams to look exactly as you want them a bit easier.
3:34:32 PM
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I'm back from vacation and I noticed that our JDeveloper 10.1.2 maintenance release has been posted to OTN. If you imagine that the current 9.0.5.2 release were numbered 10.1.1 instead, the 10.1.2 maintenance release version numbering makes more sense. In short, the product's version number finally now is synchronized with its "10g" name.
You can download the software from here (Version 10.1.2, Build 1811) and check out the 10.1.2 installation and release notes. We've fixed many bugs in this maintenance release, so it's an important upgrade. There are also a few minor usability improvements in the ADF Business Components design time that I described some back in this short article. We've also improved ADF Business Components runtime performance quite a bit in this 10.1.2 maintenance release as well.
2:58:07 PM
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