Andrej Koelewijn

Just read this news on the Amis weblog: The JHeadstart team has started a weblog, and in their first post they have anounced a new version of JHeadstart, using jDeveloper ADF.

WordPress 1.5 has been released. I’m actually pretty happy with WordPress version 1.2, so i’m not sure if i’ll be upgrading soon. After installing Spam Stopgap Extreme(now called hashcash) all comment spam has disappeared, so my biggest problem with 1.2 has been solved.

There’s a nice introductory piece on using CVS with jDeveloper on OTN: Getting started with CVS. As i mentioned, it’s mostly related to using CVS in jDeveloper, but it shortly mentions some other CVS tools. The section on merging files is a bit disapointing, it doesn’t discus a lot of the CVS problems jdeveloper users are having: conflicts in non editable files, e.g., in the project description files. Quite often the easiest solution to these conflicts is to do a clean update, i.e., getting rid of your local changes and starting fresh from the latest repository version. This is however not always doable. jDeveloper 10.1.3 has a new format for the project description files, which should cause a lot less problems.

Today i ran into some Jtable bugs in java 1.4.2 . More info can be found the following pages: Editing and FocusCycle, and Bug: 4684090.

Also good to know: If you navigate a jtable using cursor keys and you start editing a field, you don’t see a cursor. This can be fixed by calling table.setSurrendersFocusOnKeystroke(true).

I just heard from a co-worker that he installed Oracle 10g on Centos 3.4 without any problems. The installation script checks the linux version you’re installing on, so you’ll have to change this. The easiest way to do this is to copy the oracle cdrom to disk. Then open the file oraparam.ini (in disk1/install), and search for the line which says “Linux=...”. Remove everything after the equals sign. That should do it.