Chris Muir

No really, it has! You can find my new Oracle blog here. For the record this older blog will stay to allow readers to continue to benefit from the existing posts. I hope to see you on the new blog! ... (more)

If you can't beat 'em join 'em

A New Year has brought a desire for new challenges. As a result early in the year I'll be taking on a new role as a product manager for ADF at Oracle Corporation. The decision to move was certainly a difficult one. I've had an excellent 10+ years at SAGE Computing Services under the leadership of Oracle ACE Penny Cookson and the SAGE team, all who've been inspiring to work with. In turn I was fortunate enough to have two offers on my table which were both excellent, but both providing different outcomes. Choices choices. The end decision has me moving to Oracle Corporation in early... (more)

An ADF Logic Bomb

One of my talented colleagues discovered an interesting ADF logic bomb which I thought I'd share here. The issue is with the instantiation order of ADF Faces scoped beans in JDev 11g when using Bounded Task Flows embedded as regions in another page. Regular readers would be familiar with the fact that Oracle's ADF solution is built on top of JavaServer Faces (JSF). ADF supports bean scopes such as ViewScope, PageFlowScope and BackingBeanScope on top of the regular JSF ApplicationScope, SessionScope and RequestScope beans. Readers should also be familiar that the beans have a defi... (more)

Apache Ivy and JDeveloper Integration

As software applications grow, a common technique to reduce the complexity is to break the overall solution into separately built and deployed modules. This allows each component to be worked on independently without being overwhelmed with detail, though the cost of reassembling and building the application is the trade off for the added flexibility. When modules become reusable across applications the reassembly and build problem is exasperated and it becomes essential to track which version of each module is required against each application. Such problems can be reduced by the... (more)

REA Is Where RIA Becomes the Norm

Oracle on Ulitzer Do you believe that the day when programmers could focus on one language in their jobs is gone? Thanks to the ever-changing IT landscape and the uncertain financial times, contemporary developers are expected to work with a wide range of platforms, frameworks, languages as essentially "masters of all and specialists in none." You need your IDE to move with the times too, moving beyond the simple compiler and debugger to solve the challenges that contemporary developers face. Oracle JDeveloper is such an IDE. From a fledging Java IDE over 10 years ago, today JDe... (more)