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- In Part 3 of his SOA series Eric Giguere explores how to do SOA when the target device does not support Web Services (JSR 172). Dig in to learn what your options are.

The proposed acquisition of Macromedia by Adobe is not a done deal. Both companies are under the scrutiny of the SEC, and it must also be approved by stockholders. While Macromedia/Adobe gives this process three to nine months, some industry analysts feel that is being overly optimistic. But assuming that all is goes as planned, Macromedia will cease to exist. Everything will be in the Adobe name and with the Adobe interface.

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One of the most powerful features in new version of Oracle ADF is possibility of declarative creation JSF/ADF RC controls, in truth - extending and parameterizing existing componets to use them as libraries in other applications.
In my past projects I must write the same code for reapited functionalities again and again. One of them was operation "Remove new row" so as to user could resign from data inserted to a form but uncommitted. Obviously we have "Rollback" data control, but it clears row selection on the all iterators belongs to the same application module.

To be frank, I don't know why Oracle programmers didn't implement this mechanism as one of the default data contols for iterator, so - "nobody's perfect".
After creation new Generic project we need to add ADF Model Generic Runtime library - it's required to pass to component as attribute DCIteratorBinding class.

We also must create managed bean, define action for our button and next, bind this action to button. Source code for our command control should looks like below:


After packaging component to JAR file, we can add it to the main project. After this step it should appears in the Component Palette

The last step is to drag our component onto the page and using Expression Builder to bind an iterator to remove uncommitted data.

To know more about declarative creation components in ADF read:

How-to create declarative components and how-to bind them to ADF and PPR
How to Access Attributes of a Declarative Component from a Managed Bean
Fusion Developer's Guide - Reusing Application Components

Download JDeveloper 11G Workspace. After downloading change extension to ".zip" and unpack.

Last weekend, with the Southland engulfed in a fiery apocalypse, local residents were forced to stay inside while their air filters registered dust at Terror Alert Red levels. The air outside smelled like a bonfire, and locals marveled at how their throats hurt after just a short walk outside to get the paper. Meanwhile, their dogs and children ran circles around each other in the house, stir crazy from too much time spent indoors.

There was nothing to do but watch houses going up in flames on the local news. So the locals and their dogs and their children sat, with their eyes glazed over, watching fire, fire, fire, hypnotic fire, for hours on end.

Occasionally, a news anchor would interrupt the steady 24-hour feed of burning homes to interview emergency-shelter residents who'd spotted their homes burning on the 24-hour feed. "How does it feel to lose your big house, with all of your stuff inside?" the news professionals asked, affecting sad eyes and a tone of faux-sympathy.

Some shelter residents were visibly distraught when the news people asked them this. Some of them cried into their hands, and some despondently stared into the middle distance without speaking. But others shrugged and said, "It's just stuff." -- a response that made the news people flinch and tug at their expensive suits as their minds struggled to grasp a world without oversized homes filled with oversized closets filled with oversized things.

Finally, one woman laughed loudly right at the camera and said, with a glint in her eye, "I'm so glad I just redid my kitchen!"

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The authors of the new book "Sex and War" talk with Wired Science how biology and technology have shaped violence and war in the past and likely will in the future.