Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3 available

Since yesterday the new Release of Oracle (BEA) WebLogic Server 10g Release 3 (10.3) is available. Now the BEA Products also get the same naming conventions like the Oracle Application Server Products, let's see how much confusion this will cause :-) Under the OTN Webpage your can find some general informations and under OTN download page you can find the latest Release. Here you'll find two types of Installation binaries, the Fullinstaller and a Net Installer. Some major new features/enhancements are: Optional Service Startup Web 2.0 Support ADF/Toplink...

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BEA Welcome and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing

I follow right now the "Bea Welcome and Oracle's Middleware Strategy Briefing" and I was really impressed about the plans and direction where they want to go.With the combination of both product stacks from Oracle Fusion Middleware and BEA Oracle will build up a lot of new and improved components.Most changes will appear in the Service-Orient Architecture (SOA), e.g. the Oracle Enterprise Service Bus and BEA AquaLogic Service Bus will be unified to the new Oracle Service Bus.Also a major focus are Enterprise 2.0 Portals, which are already started...

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Oracle Beehive Release 1.2.1.0.0 available

Since a short time Oracle Beehive is available, which is the successor of the Oracle Collaboration Suite.The download can not be done via Oracle TechNet, you have to access Oracle Beehive through Oracle E-Delivery.In the next days, I will start to build up an environment with Oracle Beehive and post my first results and impressions, so stay tune ...

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Oracle Assessment for Oracle Application Server

In the last days I discovered in the partner area of Oracle, that you can join some assessment for free, so I just try some of these assessments for Oracle Application Server.Now I got certificates for:Oracle 10g Application Server Specialist Sales Champion Awareness AssessmentOracle 10g Application Server Specialist Sales Champion Proficiency AssesssmentOracle 10g for Resellers Sales Champion Awareness Assessment Cool, now I can not only install,...

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How to bind a OC4J Application to a Virtual Host

During a review of a customer Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.3.0 environment the question came up, if it is possible to bind a specfic OC4J Application to a defined Virtual Host?Since Oracle AS 10.1.3.x the OC4JMount is by default configured dynamically, you'll not find any entries in the Oracle HTTP Server configuration file mod_oc4j.conf. The solution is nevertheless simple to bind a OC4J Application to a Virtual Host.Let's say, we have a Virtual Host definition in our httpd.conf for a Virtual Host listening on Port 8000 with the servername...

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Oracle Forms Load Balancing

Load Balancing for Oracle Forms Applications is more and more required and used, but in many cases you don't have the budget for a Hardware Load Balancer.The first choice is mostly Oracle WebCache to use as a Load Balancer, but as I see in many projects this solution is sometimes really slow. Another alternative is to use Oracle HTTP Server 1.3.31 out of the Oracle Application Server Companion CD 10.1.2.0.2 and configure a Load Balancing for your...

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New Version of Oracle Software Configuration Manager

Since a few days, the new version of the Software Configuration Manager is rolled out, which can be reached under the URL http://csm.oracle.comThe Software Configuration Manager is the new version of Oracle MetalinkSince the new version is rolled out, now you can access directly from http://csm.oracle.com the Knowlegde Base, your Support Requests, Patches & Updates a.s.o.What is really cool, is the bubble look'n feel of the Support Requests...

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Applying Oracle Application Server Patch 3 on Linux x86_64

Since a short time the Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 Patch 3 (10.1.2.3.0) is available.If you try to apply the Patch on a Linux x86_64 system, you will run in linking errors. To avoid this errors, execute as root user following steps:cd /usr/binmv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc.savemv /usr/bin/g++ /usr/bin/g++.save# create a new file under /usr/bin named: gcc with following content:/usr/bin/gcc.save -m32 $*# Dont forget to make it executable:chmod 755 gcc# Create a sym link for g++ln -s gcc g++After this steps login as the oracle installation...

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Identify your JDBC Connection in v$session

A major problem for DBA's is the fact that in the v$session view it's really hard to identify which session comes from which J2EE Application.A select over the v$session view just shows the connected users and from which machine the connect is established, but we can't see from which J2EE Application the sessions are coming :-(With Oracle AS 10.1.3.x we have the possibility to add a property in the data-source.xml, that is displayed in the column...

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SUN's JRE 1.6 Certification for Oracle Forms

Since a short time SUN's JRE 1.6.0_04 is now certified for usage of Oracle Forms 10g Release 2.The only pre-requirement is that the Patchset 3 (10.1.2.3.0) for the Oracle Application Server (Oracle AS) must be applied.The installation of the Patchset 3 for the Oracle AS normally don't cause any problems. My first tests with the JRE 1.6.0 shows, that the initial startup time (loading of the Applet) is faster :-) Additional informations about my tests will be posted later.Original Statement from Oracle Technology Network:"We have finished the certification...

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Good old Days

Original posted 18th Apr 2008:Normally, you will find here something about Oracle Application Server, but today I discover the "Good old Days" again with Oracle 4.1 on MS-DOS The startup was really simple, just type the command ORACLEand after this startup your instance with the IOR utilityLook at the SGA Size: 16K nothing with MB or GB.Instead of SQLPlus, we got the UFI (User Friendly Interface):Even on Oracle 4.1 user scott was existing. And an...

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OpenWorld 2007 Presentation about Oracle AS 11g

Original posted 21st Nov 2007:Today I found a cool presentation about the future of Oracle AS 11g from John Lang (Group Manager, Fusion Middleware Product Management).There will be a complete break of technology, structure, concept and administration of the Oracle AS. Some highlights are:Separation of binaries and configuration filesSeveral command line interface (CLI) will be merged into one CLI called asctlJ2EE 1.5 StandardOne Software installation...

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WebUtil and Oracle AS 10.1.2 PatchSet 2 Problem

Original posted 13th Oct 2007:During the last weeks I faced with two customers some problems concerning WebUtil and Oracle AS 10.1.2.2.0, e.g. a Reports Call over WebUtil was not working or the WebUtil function file_open_dialog was not working a.s.o. Under Oracle AS 10.1.2.0.2 everything was working fine. The problem came out of the PatchSet 2 (Patch-No. 4960210) which didn't apply the frmwebutil.jar to the Oracle AS you wanted to patch. To solve this problem just follow these steps: unzip the PatchSet 2 to any directory which you prefergo to the...

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Network Traffic in Oracle Forms

Original posted 4th Oct 2007:Regularly I get the questions from my customers "What is the network traffic in my Forms applications?". A simple way to display the number of transmitted bytes and number of round trips is to add the parameter networkStats=true in your Named Configuration inside your formsweb.cfg configuration file. Additionally you have to modify the corresponding base*.htm or webutil*.htm as follows: <PARAM NAME="networkStats" VALUE="%networkStats%"> Inside the Tag <EMBED...> add following: networkStats="%networkStats%"...

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Installing WebCache Standalone 10.2.0.2 on Redhat 64bit

Original posted 14th Sept 2007:Sometime ago I run in some problems during the installation of Oracle WebCache Standalone 10.2.0.2 on an Redhat 4 x86_64 system. All prerequirements were made, the Oracle Universal Installer didn't complain anything, but during the link process following error message came up: error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.10.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After some investigations my ex-colleague from Trivadis (Engelbert Wystrach) and me came to following solution: create as root...

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Reports 10.1.2. and SuSE Enterprise Linux 10

Original posted 11th Sept 2007:Officially the Oracle AS 10.1.2 is not yet certified with SLES 10 and therefor Reports 10.1.2. is not certified. Nevertheless the Oracle AS 10.1.2 is installable on SLES 10, but if you try to run a Report you are receiving an error. The corresponding logfile $ORACLE_HOME/opmn/logs/OC4J~OC4J_BI_Forms~default_island~1 shows following error stack:java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: /u00/app/oracle/product/as-fr-10.1.2/lib/librwu.so:/usr/X11R6/lib/libXm.so.2: undefined symbol: _XsetlocaleTo resolve this problem perform...

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Did you forget the password of the ias_admin user?

Original posted 10th Sept 2007:Your colleague installed an Oracle AS Environment, went on holiday and didn't tell you the password of the ias_admin user to access the administrative WebInterface Application Server Control (ASC) or you installed your Oracle AS long time ago and forgot the password of the ias_admin user? If you have an Oracle AS environment which is NOT connected to an Oracle AS Identity Management (IDM), here is a small trick to reset the password of the ias_admin user.Just go to the directory $ORACLE_HOME/sysman/j2ee/conf. In this...

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Oracle Internet Directory Light for tnsnames Resolution

Original posted 9th Sept 2007: Since a few days the Oracle Authentication Service for Linux (http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oid/oracleauthenticationservices.html) is available. Mainly this technology preview is addressed to handle User Authentication of Linux Desktops. I had a closer look on this product and what I saw is, that the Oracle Authentication Service for Linux is an Oracle Internet Directory (OID) just as an RPM-File (Size...

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Welcome to my new Blog

As I move my Blog from http://blogs.trivadis.com/blogs/dirknachbar to here, I'll fillup my old entries in the next days.So please be patient ...

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