{"id":70,"date":"2009-01-16T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T16:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/?p=70"},"modified":"2009-02-17T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T00:01:57","slug":"oracle-forms-javabean-property-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/oracle-forms-javabean-property-editor\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Forms Javabean Property Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was finalizing the technical note for another gauge bean, it hit me that I wasted quite some time designing the visual part of the bean. In Oracle Forms, you create the bean on the canvas, assign it a height and width and then set up the implementation class.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in order to customize it, you would have to follow the bean&#8217;s developer recommendations and use the set_custom_property  built-in in order to modify the bean properties. However, this implies that as a developer, you would have to compile and run the module each time in order to see the result.<\/p>\n<p>In my case, it requires a number of iterations and that bothers me quite a bit. That&#8217;s where I suddenly realized that when I designed MouliForms, I created a class that was basically a clone of the Oracle Forms property palette editor ( Remember F4 !!).<\/p>\n<p>I asked myself whether I can extend the same concept to Forms javabeans and here what I think should come out in a few days (hopefully not weeks):<\/p>\n<li>Create an XML file that lists the bean&#8217;s properties, categories they belong to and type (String, Int or boolean).<\/li>\n<li>From the property palette editor, read and parse the XML file.<\/li>\n<li>Developer will select the values for each property and then Preview the bean<\/li>\n<li>If the developer is fine with the design, output the bean init procedure as an Oracle Forms program unit.<\/li>\n<p>I guess that should do it and could be very useful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was finalizing the technical note for another gauge bean, it hit me that I wasted quite some time designing the visual part of the bean. In Oracle Forms, you create the bean on the canvas, assign it a height and width and then set up the implementation class. Now, in order to customize [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,1,60],"tags":[40,49],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phEMW-18","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/degenio.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}