ADF Faces provides strong support for Accessibility and 508 Compliance. Most ADF Faces components have attributes that will translate to tags that screen readers can interpret. For example, <af:input>has an attribute shortDesc for a short description; this translates to an html alt tag, which is readable by most screen readers. You can find Oracle’s Accessibility guidelines for ADF Faces here: http://www.oracle.com/webapps/online-help/jdeveloper/10.1.3/state?navSetId=_&navId=4&vtTopicFile=jsf_apps/adfcreate/af_aacessible.html&vtTopicId
Oracle ADF Faces 10g: How to pass data between pages
Oracle ADF Faces 10g: How to pass data between pages Do you have the need to pass data between pages, e.g. for a new customer signup page flow that spans multiple pages? In ADF Faces, when you have a form that spans multiple pages, you have options on how to pass and maintain the data between pages, e.g. cache the data in the middle tier, re-write the data into hidden fields on the page, or store the state in session. Caching and storing data in session have the drawback of not being back-button or new-window safe. Often frameworks have a … Read More
Oracle ADF Faces 10g: Submitting a part of the page
Did you know ADF Faces allows you to submit only part of a page? This can be useful when you have a search box on a page and only want to submit that one component when the user clicks the search button. The ADF Faces af:subForm component represents an independently submittable region of a page. When used within an af:form tag or within an JSF HTML h:form tag, af:subForm lets you control which components should be validated and pushed into the model without having to use multiple forms on a page. See the following for more information on ADF subForms.
MedPivot Launched – Medical Jobs, Careers, and Resources with Web 2.0
M&S Consulting is excited to announce that we have launched MedPivot.com, a resource for Medical Jobs, Careers, and Resources. The site serves as a complete Medical Business and Career Exchange, providing members will the ability to collaborate through forums/blogs, post jobs, apply to jobs, find companies, find recruiters, locate conferences, and access valuable medical news and journals. We will be providing more information (including technical information on this Web 2.0 site) in a case study, so be sure to visit or subscribe to our newsletter to be automatically notified.
Consolidate Blogs
Over the years, M&S Consulting has acquired quite a bit of web real estate. We have shared information through our own web sites, partner web presence, industry trade journals, magazines, and more. This recently released www.mandsconsulting.com web site will serve as a single source for M&S Consulting information and knowledge sharing for our visitors. Subscribe to our blog (through RSS or email) and our email newsletter to stay up-to-date. Information from the years will be included here and we will be writing new information often.
Oracle Portal 10.1.4 Intranet and OpenWorld
M&S Consulting has implemented a world-class intranet environment for a publicly traded high-tech manufacturer in California. The implementation takes advantage of the latest Portal 10.1.4 features, while implementing rich user interfaces within Portal’s architecture. The implementation is comprised of over 20,000 pages, including over 500,000 portal items. The intranet is a valuable knowledge and collaboration tool for thousands of internal users. In recognition of the solution’s success, M&S was invited to present it at Oracle OpenWorld in 2007.
OracleAS 10.1.2 on 32 bit vs. 64 bit
Some people get excited about the prospects of running Oracle Application Server (10.1.2) on a 64-bit OS. However, just to be clear here, even if you go through the patching to get the install completed, you will still only be running OracleAS in 32-bit mode. By the way, if you have reasons for really wanting to run OracleAS on a 64-bit OS, I would be interested in hearing a compelling argument.
Discoverer – Public Connections for Oracle Applications with SSO
While using SSO, in order to create a public connection to Oracle Discoverer for Oracle Applications, I suggest creating a service account (user) in EBS and marking that user for LOCAL authentication (instead of SSO). There may not be many reasons to create a public connection in this scenario, but I did come across one recently and it is not well-documented, so I thought I would share. Of course, with Oracle BI Discoverer (non-Oracle-Applications), connections are made by database users and creating a public connection doesn’t require any EBS changes.