(Budi Kurniawan) JavaServer Faces (JSF) is a new technology for rapidly building Web applications using Java technologies. JSF expedites the development process by providing the following features: standard and extensible user interface (UI) components, easily configurable page navigation, component

(Jim Czuprynski) The previous article in this series discussed the basic concepts of Oracle Database Resource Management (DRM) for managing database server resources. This next article moves beyond the conceptual phase and tackles building, maintaining, and monitoring resource consumer groups, resou

(Rama Mohan G.) Oracle Data Provider for .NET (ODP.NET) is an implementation of a data provider for the Oracle database. ODP.NET uses Oracle native APIs to offer fast and reliable access to Oracle data and features from any .NET application.

(Kelli Wiseth) Before the advent of Extensible Markup Language (XML), enterprises that wanted to integrate either systems or data had just a few choices. They could implement gateways to support interactions among disparate systems. They could create central data or message hubs, into which all comm

Two of the key requirements for data warehouses are to improve performance and to reduce manageability costs. Oracle Database 10g delivers on both requirements by providing significant performance enhancements automatically, with no extra deployment costs or resources to implement these enhancements

(Srikanth Cherla) This function returns the number of hours worked between 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. for ‘N’ number of days.

You have been introduced in the previous Oracle laboratory to the basics of JDBC. In the next sections, we will discuss two more advanced topics: how to run PL/SQL code from Java—and conversely, how to run Java code from PL/SQL. The two issues we are going to address during this laboratory have a l

Here’s a common problem that is difficult to figure out. This began happenning early in the Release of Webserver around 1.0 and still happens in 4.0. I suspect the problem exists on all platforms as well. It usually happens after installation.

(David A. Kelly) High availability—or the ability of a business and that business’s customers to use an application or a service at the appropriate time with the level of functionality they expect—is no longer just a key requirement of today’s business systems; it’s increasingly becoming the key req

If you ever need to display the number of hours, minutes and seconds between two events, this will help. This little package can be called once to record the start time, then later to display the elapsed time since the initial call. It has two modes of displaying the time, depending on whether the