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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