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Saturday 22 April 2017

Blog listed in 'Top 60 Oracle Blogs on planet' listing on Feedspot



Feedspot is modern RSS reader built especially for power users who want to save time
and they have a listed Top 60 Oracle Blogs on Planet based on following critera

Wednesday 19 April 2017

Get af:richTextEditor value without HTML formatting and tags using jsoup library



af:richTextEditor
is used to format text in rich text using HTML formatting and it is used to get the formatted text. Previously I have posted about it
Cool Component - Using af:richTextEditor as text editor, HTML editor with custom toolbox in Oracle ADF

Monday 17 April 2017

Show saved file (pdf/text/html/xml/image) content on page from database (BLOB) in ADF Application


Hello All

Previously I have posted about uploading and saving files in database blob column now this post is about showing saved file content on page using ADF Faces inline frame component

In this post I am extending same previous application, Now see how we can implement this
There are few more steps to go , See the additional steps to show file content on page-


Tuesday 11 April 2017

Oracle ADF Best Practices, Mistakes and Worst Practices


In this post I am putting some practices and that we should follow while using Oracle Application Development Framework for development


Monday 10 April 2017

ADF Basics| Tip to Hide af:inputListOfValues search popup at runtime

Hello All

Previously I have posted about a requiremnt of  hiding af:inputListOfValues search icon using CSS
ADF Skinning | Hiding search icon of af:inputListOfValues using CSS & StyleClass

In that solution search icon doesn't appear on page but it is a part of JSF component tree so when user press TAB+SPACE after entering a value in lov component then search popup appears on screen as this action invokes search icon click event

Recently a Friend of mine came across another requirement that was not showing lov popup at all as only autoSuggest behavior was required , so for this first way is to use autoSuggest behavior in an af:inputText compoent using Lov bindings and second way is to short circuit component life cycle

Saturday 8 April 2017

Uploading and downloading files from database (BLOB) in Oracle ADF (12.1.3)

Hello all

This post is about a very simple requirement -file handling (uploading and downloading various types of file) in ADF and it is needed very often to store file in absolute server path (actual path) and download from there and I have posted about that previously

Uploading and downloading files from absolute server path

Now this post is about uploading and saving file in database BLOB column and downloading from there
See step by step implementation -

Saturday 1 April 2017

OTN Question: Not able to see last record in af:table when using icons (May be a bug)


Hello All

This post is about a problem that occurs sometimes in af:table when we use icon in any column, I am not sure that it is a bug or not but sometimes table is not fully stretched on first load and last row doesn't appear properly on page but after refreshing page again problem is solved.

Monday 20 March 2017

ADF Basics: Tip for not showing record in dependent lov


Hello All

Recently I have seen a question on OTN forum - Question on cascading LOV

It was about cascading lovs in ADF
Suppose we have 2 dependent LOVs and requirement is that 2nd lov should not show any data until first one is selected , this is very simple and common use case but for beginners it's a tedious task

So I thought to write it here to help others

Wednesday 15 March 2017

Fetch Tweets of a User using Twitter4J API and show in af:table in ADF & Java


In the previous blogs we learned about posting tweets on twitter timeline using Twitter4J API and sending direct meaages to followers using same API

This post is next in the series and about fetching a user tweets and showing in ADF Table , For this requirement we need to use same Consumer Key+ Secret and Access Token+Secret (Refer previous posts for this)

And In same way after authentication we can fetch a user tweets by using it's twitter handle. So for this requirement I have added a button to fetch tweets and a POJO based table to show fetched tweets in page

See the code to fetch tweets using user's twitter handle and it's retweets and favourites count, We can get tweets by passing page number as parameter and it returns a list of tweets


Thursday 9 March 2017

Send Direct Message to followers using Twiter4J API in Oracle ADF and Java


My previous post was about tweeting using Twitter4J API from Oracle ADF Application . Twitter4J is a Java API that simplifies accessting twitter features in our application easily

In this I am going to show how to send DM (Direct Message) to anyone using their twitter handle and for this we need to use same consumer key, secret and access token, secret (How to access all these is described in previous post)

Tuesday 7 March 2017

Post to twitter using Twitter4J API in Oracle ADF and Java


Hello All

In this post I am talking about how to post a tweet on your twitter timeline using Twitter4J Java API in your Oracle ADF Application
Using this API makes the process very simple , For accessing twitter we need Twitter API keys, It is called Consumer Key and Access Token

For this you need a twitter account and then follow these steps

Thursday 2 March 2017

Generate permanent Facebook Page Access Token to access Graph API


Hello All,
Hope you are doing well

Earlier I have posted about using facebook graph api to get profile information, post status on facebook timeline and post as facebook page.

To Access Facebook graph API we need to use Access Token and each access token has it's expiry time (temporary access tokens) but to build an application we need a permanent access token so that our app doesn't stop working after a time and it is not very easy to get a permanent access token , there are some steps you need to follow to get one

Thursday 16 February 2017

Post to Facebook Page Wall using restfb Graph API in ADF & Java


This is next post working with Facebook Graph API series, Previously I have posted about gettting access token and use it to get Facebook Profile detail and Posting status on your Facebook Timeline using restfb Facebook Graph API

Go through previous posts for better understanding of this blog post

Saturday 11 February 2017

Post Status on Facebook Timeline using restfb Graph API in ADF & Java

Hello All

Previous post was about generating temporary access token and using it get Facebook profile detail usinf restfb Graph API , Go through previous post before this as graph api basics are described in that post

Now In this post I am talking about posting facebook status update so for this I am extending same sample application

Wednesday 8 February 2017

Get Facebook profile detail using restfb Graph API in Java & ADF


Facebook is most popular social networking sites now a days and influencing our life in all aspect. Facebook gives us option to use it's Graph API to access it's features programmatically, The Graph API is primary way to read and write to facebook social graph using Access Tokens

In this post I am talking about how to access Facebook profile detail using restfb graph API . So First we need to know about Acsess Tokens

Sunday 5 February 2017

Change live application language/resource in Oracle ADF, Change XML Resource file at runtime


Hello All

I have posted about using external XML file as List resource bundle earlier , the aim of resource file is to read application static text from some source so that we can change that without compiling and redeploying application

Next requirement is to change application language , sometimes we need support multiple langauge in ADF application and it requires change in all static text so for this I am going to use separate XML resource file for different language and in this post I'll show that how to update resource file in a live running application

Wednesday 1 February 2017

Export ViewObject data to PDF file using Apache PDFBox

Hello All
Hope you all are doing well :)

This post is about exporting view object data in a pdf file directly from af:table , export to excel is built in feature of ADF but exporting data in PDF requires little bit of extra effort
So here for this requirement I am using Apache PDFBox library , previously I have posted about using this API to create PDF file from text data
I know many of you will not visit that link ;) So a quick overview

Monday 23 January 2017

Using external XML file as list resource bundle in ADF Application


Hello All

In this post I am talking about using external XML file as list resource bundle in ADF Application

Using this approach we need not to hard code component's label and messages , all labels and messages will be read from XML file and no need to open application to change any resource , In short we can update resources without compiling and redeploying application