Oracle ADF makes authentication and authorization easy via a nice graphical interface. During development, you can use the builtin file-based policy store called jazn-data.xml. You can then later swap out your authentication provider, using something a bit more scalable such as an LDAP server or custom database store. ADF also provides a default HTML-based login form that can be automatically … [Read more...]
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Oracle ADF 11g – Authentication Using an HTML Login Form VIDEO
Securing your Oracle ADF pages, task flows, entity objects and attributes is an integral part of any robust ADF application. The Oracle WebLogic container provides many authentication providers for you to choose from, and since you can seamlessly swap them out after creating your application, you can opt to stick with using the jazn-data.xml file during development, then later choose something … [Read more...]
Oracle Fusion Applications

At the Oracle Open World in 2011, it was announced that Oracle fusion applications will soon be available to the general public. These applications are meant to be the ERP solution for the next generation and will soon take place of the current Oracle E Business Suite, Siebel, PeopleSoft and other products that were developed or acquired by Oracle in the past. This suite has been in development … [Read more...]
Tips For Oracle Performance Tuning
Oracle performance tuning can include speed performance, memory usage, cpu, general i/o or reads and writes specifically. Sometimes it is the Oracle database that needs to be fine tuned or the application using it but it always reducing resource usage by the database. When tuning Oracle systems, consider individual susbsystems and application modules rather than looking at the system as … [Read more...]
Oracle SQL INNER and OUTER Joins
This Oracle SQL video tutorial demonstrates how to perform inner joins, outer joins, and self joins to access data from more that one Oracle table where the join conditions contain NULL values. A relational database consists of SQL tables, and oftentimes SQL tables' columns have relationships with each other. For example, if you have an EMPLOYEES table that contains a column for a … [Read more...]
Creating a Database Connection with Oracle JDeveloper
Creating a database connection is often a necessary task when creating a Java application. For example, you might want to use straight-forward JDBC to connect to a database in a standalone application, or you might be creating an ADF business object if you are using the Oracle Fusion stack. To create a database connection with JDeveloper, you'll need to perform these steps: Ensure the … [Read more...]
Dynamic Oracle ADF Navigation Using a Menu Model
Oracle ADF has very convenient JSF components that allow you to quickly create web pages with complex hierarchies. ADF Faces has widgets such as navigation panes, navigation items, command buttons, and list items that provide navigation from one page to another. If the navigation is very simple, such that it involves only two or three links, you can hardwire the JSF pages to include this … [Read more...]
Installing OBIEE 11(Oracle Business Intelligence) on Windows
Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) is a very powerful Oracle-based tool that analyzes data across multiple dimensions. If you have Oracle data, what good is it if you can’t make any meaning from it? With OBIEE, you can take existing Oracle data and create dimensions, which are “slices” of data. A database dimension is a collection of attributes which can be used to provide information … [Read more...]
Creating Oracle ADF Rich Faces Component using Managed Bean
In this Oracle ADF Training tutorial you will learn how creating Oracle ADF Rich Faces components is a common task for implementing dynamic web pages. You might want to create a page where the end user can dynamically add as many rows of input components as necessary. Why limit them to a static number of choices? You can perform many other tasks besides just adding components. You may remove or … [Read more...]
Installing Oracle 10g XE (Express Edition)
Below is a quick tutorial to show you how to install the Oracle 10g XE database. … [Read more...]
Fix DHCP Errors on Oracle Database Installation
What a pain – you have downloaded the Oracle database installation executable and simply want to install Oracle with a few clicks in a wizard. Half-way through the wizard tells you that your machine uses DHCP networking and instead needs to use a static IP address. What is this all about? DHCP means that an IP address is dynamic – that is not what we want! An Oracle database installation on … [Read more...]
Oracle JDeveloper Installation
Oracle JDeveloper is a very powerful IDE for developing Oracle, Java, and other technologies. This video tutorial shows you how to install it. … [Read more...]
Installing the SCOTT schema in an Oracle Database
The SCOTT schema is a small Oracle database schema that allows you to play around with several tables. To see whether the SCOTT schema is installed in your database, you can log in as the SYSDBA and issue this query: SELECT * FROM DBA_USERS WHERE USERNAME = 'SCOTT' If no results return, you need to install the schema. Oracle provides a SCOTT installation script, typically found under … [Read more...]
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