While I was checking the new Oracle Alta UI Demo (http://jdevadf.oracle.com/workbetter/faces/index.jsf) I noticed a dashboard view with all employees. The panelDashboard component of the Oracle Application Development Framework (Oracle ADF) Faces feature is a JavaServer Faces (JSF) layout container that Oracle ADF developers can use to implement such information dashboards. I decided to use it in a project that we …
Maven replace tokens inside files before application build using profiles
When building projects on multiple environments (for example a developer test server, a system test server, a user acceptance test server, a training server and finally a production server), application need to be passed environment variables. One way to solve this is to use tokens on files that Maven will replace will real values found on separate property files for …
Creating Data Models in ODI 12c with Common Format Designer (CFD)
In this post I will try to outline the capabilities of the Common Format Designer (CFD) which can be used in Creating Data Models in ODI 12c. CFD can be used to quickly design a data model, forward engineer a database schema and generate a default data flow between data models. Oracle Data Integrator (ODI) is Oracle’s flagship product on data integration. In 12c a …
Development and deployment of Spark applications with Scala, Eclipse, and sbt – Part 2: A Recommender System
In our previous post, we demonstrated how to setup the necessary software components, so that we can develop and deploy Spark applications with Scala, Eclipse, and sbt. We also included the example of a simple application. In this post, we are taking this demonstration one step further. We discuss a more serious application of a recommender system and present the …