Today Oracle published the first in a series of online eLearning
training materials. The ADF Academy presents free and online :
Developing Applications with ADF Mobile. The main goal is to deliver
technical training material to everybody that needs it. You get an
online training, where you can view audio and video to learn ADF.
Whenever you want to you can stop the recordings to try out

When a developer is working in Java there are a few failure cases you always want to know about even if you were trying to debug something else. Here is a list of the persistent breakpoints that should be enabled in every IDE. (IMHO of course)

Yes in theory you should be able to just get this from a good logging implementation; but often these problems are deep down in somebody else's library caused by changes that are beyond your control..... or just hidden in a large number of currently executing threads.

This entry might seem a bit trivial, but from experience I know that sometime new features that are added to the product are not detected by developers who just continue working in the "traditional way". Well here is a quick update on such a feature - PPR:

Way back in 2009 I did a blog entry that showed how to implement partial page rendering (PPR) in ADF by setting the partialTrigger attribute of a field to depend on another.

A new component that showed up in the JDeveloper 11.1.1.7 release is the af:listView component. This component will become more and more popular as more people target tablet devices with ADF Faces UI. The component allows you to create a scrollable list from a collection of data, and it also does fetching with ranges so you don't get too much network traffic.