Right now i’m in Wiesbaden, attending the JAX 2008 conference. The mood is somewhat different compared to the DOAG i used to visit the last years. The people are more open minded, partially much younger and generally try to be much cooler. And for the sake of it, some are even more interesting and after […]
Some days i ago, i decided to revamp my ambitions to get the scjp thingy done. What exactly for, i don’t know. But working to the self tests, i found the following: class Ring { final static int x2 = 7; final static Integer x4 = 8; public static void main(String[] args) { Integer x1 […]
Some months ago i wrote about retrieving auto generated values with JDBC from an Oracle Database: JDBC: Get autogenerated keys on a Oracle DB. The solution i presented in the previous article doesn’t run in a Oracle Java Stored Procedure. To accomplish this, use a callable statement like this: final String sql = "BEGIN INSERT […]
After staring at this for about a day in various rotations and flips just to get Oracle GeoRaster work together with a homebrew GIS like application made me feel somewhat dizzy. To be cartesian or not cartesian, that is the question 😉 Otherwise, Oracle GeoRaster works quite well, at least for that bunch of german […]
After presenting a working InputStream on a ByteBuffer, i have to more readers for you out there. First, the StringBufferReader to efficient read data from a StringBuffer. One can use new java.io.StringReader(sb.toString()) but that would convert the whole StringBuffer (sb) to a string, loosing a whole lotta memory if the string is just big enough. […]