ATTENTION - PlayBook OS Enhancement Request - (REALLY Good Idea IMHO)

Hey,
I love my PlayBook! The device and OS are great foundations for an excellent tool.
One of the innovative ideas is the use of the Bezel to execute special functions - bring up the keyboard, access the system menu, etc. It is a GREAT Idea!
I have never been a big fan of Touch (it's one of the reasons I returned my Torch which I loved - but that's another story). One of MY big problems is scrolling. Although I've adapted decently to this, I constantly find myself doing things I don't want to do when I'm scrolling because instead of scrolling, an item on the screen I'm trying to scroll gets activated instead of allowing me to "push" the screen up/down/left/right. I can't believe I'm so inept that I'm the only person that suffers this problem.
So here's the idea. You've got that nice big bezel sitting there doing nothing while I'm trying to scroll and going off in all directions. Why not allow me to scroll by swiping the bezel area? Swipe up or down the left or right side of the bezel (or swipe left or right on the top or bottom bezel) and this would scroll the contents of the screen with no possibility of accidentally "setting off" some other "tap" link on the screen.
I have no idea if this is an original idea, but I would LOVE to have the ability to do this! Likewise, zooming in and out could be controlled by pinching or stretching the bezel areas - again preventing accidentally activating any items on the screen - and the side benefit of the stretch/shrink being confined to either horizontal or vertical. BTW - I've already checked and these actions don't do anything right now, so there's no conflict with existing gestures as far as I can tell.
So what do you think? Am I just a total spaz, or is this a good idea?
Jerry

I think the cursor control that I have on my iPhone is really great and would be perfect on the Playbook.. If you aren't familiar with how the iPhone works, when you place your finger on the screen and hold it there a couple of seconds then a magnifing glass pops up above your finger and shows you where your cursors is and as you move your finger the magnifinge glass moves with it and shows the position of the cursor moving also in the magnified view. Butthat is one way to do it.. works well.

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Feedback from JHeadstart Workshop - Enhancement Requests

Hi,
We at AMIS just finished a six-day workshop on JHeadstart in combination with UIX & (primarily) JSP and BC4J & (primarily) Toplink. We have discovered a lot of things we can do rather easily using JHeadstart and the related frameworks and we feel pretty confident about using JHeadstart in the real world. In fact, in hindsight we feel that one of our recent projects could have been substantially accelerated had we been using JHeadstart with Struts and JSPs.
Of course we have also discovered quite a number of things we would like to see improved in JHeadstart. Below I will list just a few that we would really like to see made part of the product.
* Support for distinct display properties in VO Attributes for find/table/form-page
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* A strategy document outlining the best approach for (re-)generating later on in the project after having made manual changes (it seems we could not get the Application Generator to not overwrite the struts-config.xml even for groups that we explicitly excluded from regeneration of controller-logic); it seems that the main stumbling block for using JHeadstart in a serious project - or at least the generation capabilities- is not being able to deal with regeneration
* Good explanation of the extension points of JHeadstart; Struts has very well defined and documented extension points; JHeadstart (generated) applications are somewhat less clearly extensible.
* Better documentation on how to change the look&feel of the generated application - the pointers in the Developer's Guide are really quite meagre for this task.
* Extend property persistentAttribute in VO Attributes to override the persistentAttribute property currently generated in Form Bean as always equal to the VO att name (you can override the DataObjectImpl.getAttribute() and allow different patterns to be passed for persistentAttribute, such as manager.department.location to get hold of the name of the department of the manager of the current employee
* Support a diplay type of Image for Attributes (type BLOB or RAW) that contain Images; such images should be displayed as IMG where the src-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
* Support a diplay type of File for Attributes (type CLOB, BLOB or RAW) that contain contents to be downloaded as file; such files should be displayed as download button or link where the href-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
* Support a display type of Hyperlink for Attributes that contain a URL; in display only mode this attribute should be displayed as hyperlink, in insert/update mode the field should be accompanied by a small icon that allows navigation.
* Allow the JAG to generate Resource Bundels for multiple languages at once, rather than rerunning several times for each language
* Generate Breadcrumbs in JSPs
* Generate Regions in JSPs
* Allow static values for query type arguments to be provided - in struts config as action properties (for example for poplist population) - compare example Choosing Custom Query from Poplist in Tutorial where the page needs to provide the queryType bindparameter value; currently the value for the bindparameters used in the queryType need to be set in the session (typically from a form-field in the posted form); however, a queryType that can support for example all Domains in CG_REF_CODES with only the domain name bindparameter making the difference is very useful for populating poplists before displaying pages. It would be very handy if I can just specify the domainName as bindparameter in the getDataObjectSet action along with the queryType instead of forcing the value of the domainName into the Session.
* generate lookup (hyperlink/navigation to (popup with) details for the indicated record (for example: navigate to departments details by clicking on the Departments name in the Employees(Table)Page
* generate navigation buttons - new childtype in Application Structure file along with Regions: Navigation (Button); properties: targetGroup, possible page (table/form/child) and primary key of dataobject in target to be passed
Thanks for implementing any of these suggestions!
"The JHeadstart Team at AMIS!"

Lucas,
Thanks you very much for the useful feedback.
The good news is that many of your enhancement requests are already on our radar screen.
Your comments on the documentation are well taken. There is always room to improve the doc. If you have any specific topics/customizations that should be documented first, that would help us setting priorities on improving the doc.
Here are more detailed comments on some of your suggestions:
* Support for distinct display properties in VO Attributes for find/table/form-page
Not sure about this one. You can already get this by using resource bundles, we generate sperate keys for table and form items
* Generate Struts submodules
We will generate forwardPattern="$P" in the next patch.
* Support a diplay type of Image for Attributes (type BLOB or RAW) that contain Images; such images should be displayed as IMG where the src-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
The runtime support for this is done. We hope to include generation of images in the patch release schduled for November.
* Support a diplay type of File for Attributes (type CLOB, BLOB or RAW) that contain contents to be downloaded as file; such files should be displayed as download button or link where the href-attribute refers to a download action in the Struts-Controller.
Same status as images.
* Support a display type of Hyperlink for Attributes that contain a URL; in display only mode this attribute should be displayed as hyperlink, in insert/update mode the field should be accompanied by a small icon that allows navigation.
Good idea, easy to do in read only mode.
* Allow the JAG to generate Resource Bundels for multiple languages at once, rather than rerunning several times for each language
Nice to have, not a top priority in our view.
* Generate Breadcrumbs in JSPs
Yes, not easy to do, but is already on our list for next major release.
* Generate Regions in JSPs
Same status as breadcrumbs.
* Allow static values for query type arguments to be provided - in struts config as action properties (for example for poplist population) - compare example Choosing Custom Query from Poplist in Tutorial where the page needs to provide the queryType bindparameter value; currently the value for the bindparameters used in the queryType need to be set in the session (typically from a form-field in the posted form); however, a queryType that can support for example all Domains in CG_REF_CODES with only the domain name bindparameter making the difference is very useful for populating poplists before displaying pages. It would be very handy if I can just specify the domainName as bindparameter in the getDataObjectSet action along with the queryType instead of forcing the value of the domainName into the Session.
Understand the value, we could do this by using single quotes to indicate constants within the attributeNames property.
* generate lookup (hyperlink/navigation to (popup with) details for the indicated record (for example: navigate to departments details by clicking on the Departments name in the Employees(Table)Page
We have designed a simple but powerful way to link groups, which effectively provides you the ability of unlimited nesting of groups. Design is ready, implementation has to start, but we very much would like to include this in the patch release. No promises though...
* generate navigation buttons - new childtype in Application Structure file along with Regions: Navigation (Button); properties: targetGroup, possible page (table/form/child) and primary key of dataobject in target to be passed
This is included in the design as mentioned in the previous item.
Steven Davelaar,
JHeadstart Team

Why does it take so long for microsoft to incorporate good ideas into programs, but then after they do no one elses software will work on the system?

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will not provide support or service packs for xp). So I get a new pc with WIN7 op system installed and try to do traditional backups to protect myself should my system crash in the future. (usually this means cloning a hard drive or installing Faronics Deep
Freeze to protect my op system in case of catastrophic failure.) I try to install and use some of these utility software types including Acronis Disk Director 12, Avanquest Perfect Image, Partition Commander 10, and others True Image Hdd utility for cloning
hdds. Most of these I try to run turn out to be useless, and I get pop-up messages saying my software is incompatible with win 7 op sys! I am wondering if it is the software or the fact the op system is 64bit (not 32 bit) which means that if you buy any other
software to help with utilities it will be worthless because most are written for 32 bit systems not 64. No one tells you these warning signs when you buy the pc with the 64 bit software already installed. But for a Toshiba 15" computer that normally
costs 400$ and I can get it at Goodwill used computer store(1stStreet and Fairview in Santa Ana, Ca.) for 175$ I can not complain. Being an unemployed electronic technician, I have to stretch my dollars as far as they will go...Another frustrating thing is
I buy this device made by Apricorn Driveware that allows users to hookup a second hdd using a usb cable and a three connector module that will allow the user to connect any hard drive sata or ide or the 3rd type. I try to run it and make a backup copy of internal
hdd but I get error messages saying it can not copy hdds when there are minor differences such as total mbs on each drive or slightly different hardware issues such as my pc has 580 gb internal drive and replacement backup drive is 380gb. Such as shame because
hardware setup is a good idea but without compatible software it is useless! Perhaps if I was using it on my old xp op systems I would have fewer problems with software compatibility issues. I really hate the fact that MS does not provide support for known
good op systems like xp say 20yrs? When the products and markets change so fast they run the risk of alienating customers who can not financially keep up with technology changes especially during an economic depression such as the one we are in now( they predict
it will last 20 yrs). a curious thing about the Acronis disk director 12 software I installed. It seemed I could not get partion size on hdd to change no matter what I did. I found out that if I CHANGED THE DATA BLOCK SIZE ON THE NTFS PARTITION FROM 4 KB TO
2 KB THAT I WAS NO LONGER LIMITED BY THE SOFTWARE FROM SHRINKING THE HDD PARTITION FROM 300GB DOWN TO 100GB. Once this item was changed on the hard drives the Disk Director 12 software (Acronis) was able to shrink the partition size to what I wanted.

Due to phenomenal development in Windows, Microsoft released 4 generations of operating systems, succeeding Windows XP. Hence, on various aspects, Windows XP becomes too old to be used practically these days. So the support was pulled out.
I do agree that Windows XP is the most successful operating system ever, so far. But, later versions added more features, enhanced security and compatibility. Moreover, at this point, Windows XP becomes more vulnerable, although security patches are made.
Ultimately, we need to move to a more secure, feature-rich and highly compatible operating system.
With improved features in newer versions of Windows, the NTFS filesystem has also been improved, adding new features. Hence, certain feaures that are not availble in Windows XP are available in Windows 7, again, in Windows 8.1. So is the disk management
features.
As for Acronis Disk Director, it's a third party software and hence we can't comment on the features/its working.
Balaji Kundalam

Enhancement requests do seem to be worthwhile in the end...

Having requested the continuous/shuffle music video playback several times in the last 18 months or so, and urged people to do so via...
http://www.apple.com/feedback/appletv.html
...it has finally been implemented and I'm chuffed to bits.
Well done Apple, this is a superb enhancement though why so long to implement ?
Personally I feel this was a huge oversight for AppleTV ever since it was realeased, and seriously hindered both use of AppleTV as a media extender and obviated the point of buying music videos unless you watch them on portable devices which I don't.
I had become increasingly negative about the prospect of ever seeing this feature
appear - this cat doesn't wear a hat so I'll have to eat something else instead!
I am now likely to spend a fair amount on music videos at iTunes Store having vowed not to do so again as having to select each one manually to play was tedious to say the least.
Really baffles me how Apple have missed the opportunity for revenue from music video sales via AppleTV, particularly when iPods had the shuffle feature.
As I commented a few weeks ago I think perhaps priorities since 2.0 update have been to get the store up and running properly before implementing enhancement requests or new features.
Very pleased Apple have finally implemented this extremely useful feature, it may not be pointless in using the link above, it just takes time.
So the next thing we should do is think of things to officially lobby for in future updates.
My top 3 would be:
1 - Allowing connection via USB to rescue data from AppleTV for users who've had hard drive accidents/msihaps and haven't backed up recently - fact of life it happens even if you're careful! Files with DRM are safe from unauthorised use and those without DRM are no less secure than they were before anyway. This could even be done by only allowing AppleTV to dump media to an external USB device instead of allowing an external connection to AppleTV itself, and could be controlled from say a backup menu option. Alternatively full manual bidirectional drag and drop of media via iTunes to/from AppleTV could be implemented with a mode to prevent a new sync library connection wiping existing content.
What's in it for Apple? Huge boost in consumer confidence that Apple allow them to easily recover their personal files in the event of a problem - there should be no need to hack or dismantle AppleTV just to get at your data. Just think of all those people saying thank heaven I had an appleTV as my Macbook died and I'd forgotten to backup those wedding photos etc. We see examples of frustrated users almost daily with this problem.
2 - Additional codec support - it's all very well saying h264 is the best thing since sliced bread and the current Apple/Apple Store standard, but the limited video codec support is probably the biggest hindrance to AppleTV becoming an extremely popular media device. It has the slickest interface of commercial products but many prospective customers have files in long established older formats that are incompatible without prior time consuming and quality degrading transcoding. Locking down AppleTV in this way alienates many potential users. The argument about the source of files in other formats may have some validity, but it is not Apple's job to infer that a user's file is of dubious origin simply for not being in h264 format. I am not condoning filesharing/torrents etc merely saying that most people have older files in older formats they want to use without conversion. Many DVD players allow playback of DivX (never use it myself), and if there's a licensing issue offer playback as a per device plugin option paid for by the user in the same way the QT MPEG2 pluging is offered.
What's in it for Apple? Happy customers who would simply use something else like a PS3 to view their files and not buy AppleTV. New customers who would not have purchased otherwise. Happy customers who no longer need to trasncode files to watch. You'd be happy with being able to use older files, but would also get the benefit of using iTunes Store for new things.
The overhwelming thing would be a sense of 'fair play' gained by the consumer. For me personally since 2.0+ the device's overwhelming iTunes Store based menu design sticks in the craw and has relegated MY content to the bottom of menus. Give us the best of both worlds - an iTunes Store top level section for purchases and separate simple top level sections for combined personal/purchased media as in software 1.0/1.1. In essence declutter the menu system for playback lumping all the purchasing/preview/search options together.
3 - Tricky. Most useful would be an AppleTV SDK and 3rd party plugins/apps via iTunes paid and/or free similar to the iPhone model - I can live without widgets/visualisers/social networking plugins etc but they would be valuable to many users. As far as I know the iPhone Apps have been a huge success - no reason why not on AppleTV too, though commiting to this pathway would probably be very expensive in terms of developing a secure/sandboxed environment for running apps/plugins unless they could port the iPhone software fairly simply.
Anyhow, once again delighted Apple have added the music video feature - I will start buying music videos from iTunes music store again. Bad for my wallet but good for Apple and AppleTV. Perhaps I should be thankful and consider how much I've saved not buying music videos in the last 18 months or so.....
What would you like to see? Some things will be impossible/hardware limited, others quite feasible.
Discuss, but also use the formal feedback link to give enhancements any chance to appear!
Let's all help make AppleTV a success, and hopefully the media extender to beat!
AC
typos - Message was edited by: Alley_Cat

Chenks wrote:
to be honest, adding playlists (or whatever it is) for just music videos is of no use to me.
it is playlists for tv shows that i need. ie the capability of playing episode 1 to 5 of a particular season back to back.
Funny isn't it, how we all do things differently, have different preferences, enhancement wishes etc.
For me it's not really a big chore to watch an episode then to manually start the next assuming I or Mrs AC are still awake!
For episodes of short duration say 5-15 minutes I appreciate this could get annoying, and for longer episodes I suppose we are used to Play All type options on DVDs.
If these are iTunes TV Shows you're stuck at the moment, but if they're say 'home recordings converted for AppleTV' you could theoretically get round it by setting their types to Music Video. Clumsy but it should work.
I'm sure you can see the benefit of playlists/shuffling for music videos that may be 3-4 minutes each on average. I rediscovered dozens of iTunes Store music video purchases last night and thought 'yes, this is one of the big reasons why I bought AppleTV initially' - it did not say anywhere that AppleTV could not do this somewhat logical task - assumptions are dangerous though and invariably you only find out the full capabilities of products when using them.
additional codec support ? i would say there is no chance of this. x264 is pretty standard theses days (if you discount the pirate industry). x264 is even used for HD TV in the UK.
I agree, there's more chance of Tony Blair making a comeback!
Piracy is rife and I do not support it.
My views on fair use of media you personally own are quite different.
It's not the codec/container that's the issue it's how the material was acquired in the first place - it may simply be your home videos, digitised off-air recordings etc that is in a 'legacy' format that you don't want to transcode. We know from the modders that most other SD formats are playable on the current hardware so that's not the issue.
Take say an Elgato EyeTV device - I can record anything off-air, edit and transcode for AppleTV or just transcode unedited automatically. How much more sensible it woudl be if AppleTv simply supported the MPEG-2 transport stream playback rather than wasting time and computing/power resources doing the transcode.
I have some some standard video-CDs I made on a PC in the late 1990's, how nice it would be to be able to play the MPEG-1 content back without fiddling - it's not as though converting to h264 will do anything for the quality!
AC

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who may not be paying much attention to the screen.
I’m excited to develop this, but after years of web development, I feel paralyzed. I must be making this harder than it needs to be, but here’s my plan… I'll start with a windows form, which will run minimized, and have an icon that looks like
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Some of my questions are;
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Is this a good idea, or is there an easier way?
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Enhancement request : _tmp_war

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          It would have been easier to manage if one base directory /WEB-INF/_tmp_war/ had been created, containing as much sub-directories as you want for each virtual host.
          Second enhancement request :
          Having temporary directories created directly in my WEB-INF can be good for developpement environnement, but I don't think it's a good idea in production environnement.
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          Hervé BOUTEMY


Thank you for your feedback.
We are investigating many new features for future releases. Hopefully soon we will be able to share some of those details. Keep the idea coming... ;)

Export to CSV: Enhancement requests

Could I request the following enhancements in the Export to CSV feature?
1. Allow only specific columns to be exported, not all the columns shown on the report
2. Allow the column heading row to be optional
3. Allow the option to create a formatted spreadsheet using the SYLK format (this will allow basic formatting like bold column headers, aligning data, etc)
Thanks

Vikas,
Thank you for your suggestions. Conditionally including or excluding certain columns is a good idea. You can do that today if you setup a regular report and one used for the CSV export on another page. The second report would use the CSV template and you would branch there from the first page using a button or link. The queries could be the same, because you could just use column conditions to determine what columns to include. Of course this approach isnât ideal because you would have to maintain two reports. So Iâll look into adding conditions just for CSV exports and into adding an option to exclude the column headings. We used to have SYLK exports in earlier versions of HTML DB but this didnât seem to be a wildly used format anymore. We are however working on alternative and improved ways for formatting your report exports.
Thanks,
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IPhone/iTunes enhancement request...

I would be super-appreciative if someone could point me to where (who, etc.)I can go to post enhancement requests for new versions of the iPhone OS and it's interaction with iTunes.
Would really appreciate being able to add more than 11 pages of apps to my iPhone, without having to go to wierd un-documented procedures, and then not be able to manage all the apps and re-arrange them within iTunes.
Would like to see the ability to add a significant amount of more pages to the app springboard, (I would expect that a full dotbar of pages extend to the edges of the screen, something around 20 pages, IIRC...) and be able to manage those through iTunes properly.
I'm unsure as to why the 11 page limitation.
The other idea is to have "profiles" within iTunes so that you can sync certain applications within the profiles so that you can change sets of apps based on need.

I would be super-appreciative if someone could point me to where (who, etc.)I can go to post enhancement requests for new versions of the iPhone OS and it's interaction with iTunes.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Matt

Is buying in the US a good idea?

Hello,
I currently live in the Netherlands, a small country next to Germany. In about 2 years I will go to college and will need a laptop. As I'm going to an industrial designers Academy I am going to need a laptop with quite some graphic capabilities. Apple intermediately invaded my mind with their super laptops, the mac book pro in particular. Now my question is if it's a good idea to buy the mac book pro 15" in the US? From what I've heard I won't have any repair warranty for in the Netherlands. But is this a big issue? I don't know if the mac book pro brings a lot of issues with it because it will be my first apple computer. I only have experience with apple through my ipod touch 1st gen. Whenever I had problems with that I just went to the internet and found an answer there to my problem.
It is a big difference if I buy it in the Netherlands or in the US because the price differs from the dutch price 2100 euro's (3108 dollars) for the mac book pro 2.8 GHz and in the US 2300 dollars (1554.05 euro's).
That differs 808 dollars or 545.95 euro's.
So does the mac book pro have some problems and are these easily fixable by yourself with a little internet help?
So what will it be?
buying in the Netherlands with a higher price but a active warranty. so with lower risk of a unsolvable problem?
or buying in the US with a much lower price but a chance on unsolvable problems?
please help me and give arguments.
thank you.
Message was edited by: Davinovic

Hi and welcome to both these forums and when you arrive to the United States. Your question concerning the warranty should be addressed to Apple Support just to make sure, but I would agree that wherever you purchase your Macintosh the warranty should be world wide. Considering the price difference I'd recommend the US. I suspect the difference in price has more to do with EuroUnion VATs than anything else. We don't have VATs here in the states, though you'll have to pay any local sales taxes (I know, the difference escapes me). Though once you're here buying online often avoids even that tax. In the US taxation is largely voluntary (ok ok, think about it). That means if you order online from a company in California and have the item delivered in, say, Indiana the California company will inform you that you have to pay Indiana sales tax on the item, but will not collect it at the time of sale. The burden of paying the tax is upon you, voluntarily submitting the tax to the Indiana Dept of Revenue. While some states are really trying to tighten this up it is still very common practice to simply not pay the local sales tax as no one is tracking this information. This sort of thing relates to the unique relationship between the Federal government and those of the individual, nearly sovereign, states.
Now as for the MBP I contend you cannot buy a more solid, reliable, fast laptop, period. Firstly, Apple is the number one computer company in consumer satisfaction. AppleCare is worth it. I've had several experiences personally and with friends and family with Apple's warranty fulfillment and it is totally awesome. The MBP itself is state of the art, sleek, and the best industrial design out there (OK Sony comes close, but no one else does). The OS is virus free and very easy to use. You can run Mac OS X, Linux, Unix, and Windows of any flavor, so if you absolutely have to use some vertical market Windows based program it's easy as pie to launch bootcamp or other VM OS and you're in windows.
I got my first Mac back in '86 and haven't even considered another OS (I did have a PowerComputing clone for a while and frankly even then Apple was better built). The average PC lasts about 2.5 yrs. The average Macintosh about 4.5 years, more than enough to get you through college.
Keep hitting these forums as you'll find a wealth of information and thousands of helpful hands.
Again, Welcome!

Enhancement request: Remote interface java file generation

Problem:
In release 9.0.3, If you want to write a method that is suppossed to be exposed in the remote interface, you have to first right click on the ejb-jar.xml's appropriate EJB name node and then add the method, specify the argument types (say about 25 in number in a small width textbox), return type, etc and check the check box 'Expose in remote interface'. Then only remote interface's java source gets updated and only after doing all this can you actually sit down to write the business logic in that method. If you first code the method and then try to add the same, it gives an error saying "duplicate method exists"
Suggestion:
The similiar feature in release 9.0.2 was much better and flexible as it allowed the generation of remote interface source after coding the actual method in the EJB source. You can first write the method and then expose it in the interface by just choosing it from a method browser and opting for exposing it in the remote interface. You donot have to write the name and number of arguments like we have to currently do in the 9.0.3 release.
(1) Actually, all public methods in the EJB source should by default be exposed in the remote interface because EJB are supposed to be used by other EJBs and JSPs only and all methods that are public but not exposed in the remote interface should actually be private or protected.
(2) Leave it up to the developer to edit the remote interface
(3) When the EJB source file is changed (public methods changed) compiled the remote interface should also be updated automatically. Why? already you have provision to change the remote interface source, so just dump all the public methods in the remote interface source when the EJB source is compiled.
(4) Ditto for EJB Homes
(5) Actually whenever the developer changes and compiles the EJB source, the remote and home source should automatically be updated AND COMPILED. (Refer: Pramati Studio 3.0 SP3 :- URL: www.pramati.com )
I was very happy with the earlier option. If anybody other then the JDeveloper Team finds this interesting, please respond. A suite like developer should be more User-friendly.
And yes expect more like this from me in the future

Hi Raghu,
Thanks for the quick response. This flexiblity in Remote interface generation and choice of methods in it at any given point in the development cycle is very much desired feature.
The other thing I would like to suggest is you look at another enhancement request in my name regarding batch updates of the "web.xml" file. You will find the thread updated today i.e. on 15th September with a reply
I will shortly post one more for lack of modularity in EJB components descriptors.
My Company Four Soft Pvt. Ltd. (www.four-soft.com) is Oracle's development partner and we use and support Oracle products. They are good but naturally we would like them to be better and more User-friendly.
Thanks once again.
Amit

Apex and remote database links.... Good idea or bad?

We would like to have one single Apex installation that would be used to develop many applications against many remote databases.
Database links would seem to be the obvious mechanism to achieve this goal, but we have had many issues with db links.
Also, our research indicates this might not be a good idea for various reasons.
Any opinions or experiences around this topic would be greatly appreciated.

we have had many issues with db links. In that case it's a bad idea.
It's not really an Apex question. If you can't get db links to work, it's a database issue. If it's performance over the db link, again it's a database issue (assuming modern networks aren't the bottleneck here). Remote views (instead of selecting from remote tables) often increase performance.
If the applications don't have to share data over the db links, you can set up one master application and several sub-applications on the different databases. The master is used to log in once. See:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2009/09-may/o39security-101079.html

OWB 10gR2 - some enhancement requests

Hi, I've been working with OWB 10gR2 for approximately a week now, and I've come across a few (minor) bugs, as well as a list of enhancements that I think would make the tool better. I'd like to surface these in this forum so they can be either disagreed with or have workarounds suggested, as well as getting this list in front of Oracle. Also I'm new to the tool, so maybe there are ways to accomplish what I want.
p.s. as a side note - please don't take these as criticisms of the tool. I'm actually very impressed with OWB 10gR2, but just want to surface some ideas that I think would make the tool better.
Thanks,
Scott
---Bugs:
1.     If I enter a quote character in one of the business description fields (i.e. for a cube or dimension), it causes the DDL scripts to blow up. It probably mentions the list of valid characters in the users guide somewhere - but if a character isn't legal, it should be flagged when I try to enter it originally not when deploying
2.     I can enter illegal strings in an expression operator that fail validation there, but the whole map still passes validation. For instance, I put in an expression (for a varchar2 field) using a single quote at the start, but mistakenly with a double quote at the end. I didnt bother to validate this within the expression. The whole map validated fine, but (of course) blew up with the illegal syntax when generating the code.
3.     I get the following error when trying to browse a cube (ROLAP, not MOLAP) through OWB, but I'm able to pull the cube up fine using either the excel add-in or biBeans: CubeDV_OLAPSchemaConnectionException_ENT_06952???
---Enhancement Requests:
1.     Add a deploy button in control center next to the to default actions and reset actions buttons
2.     Allow an option to have dimensions and cube defaults set to either deploy all, deploy data only, deploy catalog only, deploy aggregations (for cubes). Also, why is the default set to deploy data only? Does deploying the CMW2 metadata involve huge performance impacts or something? It seems like the CMW2 is almost free so it should be turned on by default. Its a pain to use the dimension wizard, but then have to go in to each dimension afterwards to set this option.
3.     When using configure on dims and cubes in control center, the first time the configuration properties dialog pops up, everything is fine. However, when you try to configure the 2nd object, the background focus switches from control center back to design center. This makes navigation very slow if you have lots of items to change. I've noticed this behavior in a few other places as well.
4.     Some dialogs do not have maximize buttons (i.e. dimension wizard dialogs), and default to a very small size. It is possible to have size of dialogs dynamically scaled to screen resolutions, and attempt to size columns so they fit properly. Or better yet, have each dialog remember how large it was last time, and automatically open up to that size?
5.     When generating the autobind relational table while creating a dimension, it seems to be randomizing the order of the attributes within a level (although it does sort the top level attributes first, followed by lower level attributes), at least when using the dimension wizard. It would be nice if the attributes in the relational table came out sorted in the same order as they are specified in the attributes tab.
6.     When using a unmapped display set there doesnt seem to be a way to refresh the set (i.e. remove the items that have since been mapped) unless you select all and then unmapped again. Would be nice if you could simply choose unmapped again and have it refresh the object
7.     While doing a mapping, right click on canvas allows option to generate. Would be nice to also add the validate option to this menu
8.     Validating mappings takes a decent amount of time would be nice if a busy icon was displayed to let user know that OWB hasnt locked up.
9.     default size of job details dialog is too small, and even if I maximize I still have to go through and manually adjust the size of each pane. Similar to enhancement #4
10.     Horizontal size of operators in mapping seems to be determined by the length of the operator name, instead of tying directly to the icon. Looks strange. Very minor
11.     When displaying dimension objects in a mapping:
a.     For the surrogate key columns add an icon to indicate this attribute is a surrogate key. Likewise, since its not legal to map anything to this column, remove the little arrow next to it (the one that turns gray when something is mapped to a column), or perhaps don't even show this column at all.
b.     For the business key columns add some type of icon to show which attributes represent the business natural key (or make color different, etc.)
12.     Similar to #11, for the cube operator in a mapping:
a.     For the surrogate key columns if they cant be mapped to, then dont show them
b.     For the business key columns add some type of icon to show which attributes represent the business natural key
c.     Separate the measure columns from the dimension columns
13.     For the Aggregation operator can you move the <None> default operator to the top of the list. At the bottom, it means you always have to scroll to use the most common operations (which are at the top of the list), i.e. sum and avg, etc.
14.     In the log on prompt, if I choose SQL*Net connection, every time I start it up it defaults to the details being shown (even when I chose no detail last time), with cursor in the host box. I should be able to have the details hidden, and this dialog should ALWAYS default to having the active cursor in the password box on startup
15.     When printing in a mapping, the page setup print dialog is very slow. Also, the print setup dialog shows margins, but you cant adjust them. It would be nice if this could be changed here
16.     Add a print preview icon to all of the toolbars. Printer icon is there, print preview should also be.
17.     In the dimension attributes, we need a way to tag an attribute as being the insert record date or the update record date. The corresponding MERGE SQL should be updated to use these attributes.
18.     It would be nice if the mapping canvas defaulted to an unlimited sizei.e. when I want to add new operators and the screen is already full, I either need to shrink the zoom factor down to the point where I cant read the icons anymore, or I have to pick up the new operator and drag at the bottom / right side until it scrolls enough to drop it where I want. If the canvas had an unlimited size, I could simple use the scroll bars to scroll to where I want.
19.     Scroll wheel functionality to zoom in / out (and have it zoom in around the currently selected object)
20.     Option to have operations automatically resize when longer attribute names are added to them (can workaround by mimimizing and then maximizing, but would be better to have the operators automatically adjust size to fit)
21.     Ability to sort output attributes in an operator (just like table column sort functionality). If I create a new operator, it would be nice to group it with related operators instead of always having it at bottom.
22.     re: column sort functionality drag and drop instead of up/down arrows would be nice
23.     It would be nice if, when adding output attributes to (for example) the expression operator, it would choose the default data type the same way the dimension attribute wizard works (i.e. if it sees ind in name, automatically choose char(1)
24.     Change the zoom in button so that it zooms in on the currently selected operator i.e. if I click on a particular table and then hit the zoom in button, it should keep the table I selected centered
25.     When in a mapping, clicking on a line should highlight the attributes on both the source and target operators (to allow easier visual ID of where data is coming from / going to)
26.     AWM has a feature where table attributes can be sorted so that mappings between them don't have "crossed" lines. Similar functionality in OWB would be very appreciated. It may be harder to automate this, but even manual drag and drop of attributes within an operator would be nice.

if you could copy/paste this whole thing into the submission form (see feedback option under the numbers menu). The more people that request these features, the more likely we are to see them in an update or the next version.
Jason

Hi guys i had been an iPhone 5 user for about 3 years and i have recently swapped over to a samsung s4 i dont know if this was a good idea any assistance or light in the right direction would be appreciated?

Hi guys i had been an iPhone 5 user for about 3 years and i have recently swapped over to a samsung s4 i dont know if this was a good idea any assistance or light in the right direction would be appreciated?

Sorry i correct myself i had been an iPhone user for about 3 years. My last Apple iPhone was an iPhone 5. I am getting used to things with the Samsung but really think the extra features such as smart stay and scroll are coverting humans into robots. The configuration of the features is also difficult as it detects your eye movement so if the movement is out of place even the slightest the feature will not function. I think the ios user interface is simple in comparison to the android user interface. Any views are appreciated? I have many friends also using HTC and prefer it in comparison to the iPhone and Galaxy but as raymond73 mentioned choice is a wonderful thing.

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