SourceLabs SASH certified on Oracle Fusion Middleware

Oracle Fusion Middleware is now a certified platform for the SourceLabs "SASH" stack: Apache Struts, Apache Axis, the Spring Framework, and Hibernate. Visit this page to download free SASH software!

SASH is a distribution from SourceLabs that: 1. Reconciles library versions and dependencies across the entire stack. 2. Includes dependability fixes for the baseline open source projects 3. Is rigorously tested according to the CERT7 method. 4. Is commercially supported.

Is OracleAS Portal used on the Internet????

Just use google with a string used byOracleAS Portal URLs...

• servlet/page
• pls/portal

A little tip, but you will see that people are very creative with Oracle Portal 10g!

Javaworld: Jason Hunter's "New features added to Servlet 2.5"

Jason Hunter has published an interesting article about new features added to servlet 2.5. The focus of this article is like most of the JEE 5 goals all about simplification, easy of use, this is done by leveraging Java5 annotations (resources refences, life cycle support,...), some improvements around the web.xml, and cross context sessions support.

SearchWebServices: Oracle's Steve Harris on Java and standing out in SOA, part 1

Interested to know more about the Oracle Application Server 10g and the SOA/Java strategy? Take some time to read the SearchWebServices.com interview with Steve Harris, VP of the Java Platform Group at Oracle.     Oracle's Steve Harris on Java and standing out in SOA, part 1 Addition on 30/12: follow TheServerServide discussion

Oracle 10g: Oracle Open World Top 10 presentations

You can find online the top 10 presentations of Oracle Open World 2005:

1. Optimizing the Optimizer: Essential SQL Tuning Tips and Techniques
2. 10 Things We Like About Oracle Database 10g Release 2
3. PeopleSoft Enterprise, JD Edwards, and Oracle E-Business Suite Integration with Oracle Fusion Middleware
4. The Future of Database and Information Technology
5. Understanding Shared Pool Memory Structures: Tips on How to Optimize Usage and Avoid Errors
6. Take the Guesswork Out of Database I/O Tuning
7. Tuning Oracle SQL in the Real World
8. What They Didn't Print in the Doc: High-Availability Best Practices from Oracle Maximum Availability
9. Performance Diagnostics Demystified: Best Practices for Oracle Database 10g
10. Best Practices for Oracle Database 10g Backup and Recovery

Enjoy!

Using Eclipse WTP and OracleAS/OC4J

You have probably heard about Web Tools Platform (WTP), this project extends Eclipse with various tools for developping J2EE applications. It contains editors for HTML, JSP, XML and so more... In addition to various wizards to create Web Services, EJB, Connector and more... WTP allows developers to package the application using J2EE standard packagind: EAR,WAR,RAR,JAR and deploy and run the application from the IDE.

The challenge here is not how you build J2EE components using an IDE, but more how do you package, deploy and run your application easily from the IDE. Eclipse WTP allows you like Oracle JDeveloper does, to package the various J2EE components in standard archives (JAR, WAR, EAR, RAR, ...) and deploy them to a J2EE container. WTP project has a very nice list of containers you can deploy to: Oracle, IBM, BEA, JBoss, Tomcat, ...

Supported Server
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With the latest build of Eclipse WTP (Release 1.0M8), Oracle Application Server 10g is now part of the default server list. So if your are an OracleAS user you can now use WTP and start to run and debut your application running in OracleAS from Eclipse.

What do you need to start using WTP and OracleAS:

1. Download and install Eclipse WTP 1.0M8 from Eclipse site.
2. Download and install OracleAS 10g (OC4J 10.1.3 Developer Preview 4) from OTN
3. You must set a administrator password for OC4J using the start command
4. Done! You can now use OC4J and Eclipse. I have a viewlet that shows the basic steps to create and run your first Web application.
   

OC4J configuration

Update (Nov,18) : I forgot to mention the Oracle Application Server Adapter tutorial from the Web Tools project.

Installing Blojsom on OracleAS 10g (10.1.3)

I am using internally Blojsom for blogging about the product I am taking care of: OC4J and especially the Web Services stack. In this post I am quickly documenting, as the title says, how to install Blojsom on OracleAS 10g.

1-Download
The first thing to do is to download the product itself, just download the Blojsom quickstart from sourceforge.

2-Deploy
Since, Blojsom is distributed as a WAR file you have nothing special to do, just deploy it. Anyway I have created a viewlet  that shows step by step deployment using Oracle Enterprise Manager.

So the application link will be: http://localhost:8888/blojsom/

Note: if you want to use the command line utility (admin.jar) or the Ant deployment task, you should package the Web archive in an EAR file.

3-Update the home page
The easiest way will be to just change the index.html page to redirect to the default blog. The index.html page to be modified is in:

• $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home/application/blojsom/blojsomXXXX/index.html

where blojsomXXXX is the name of the Web application generated during deployment.

4- Start blogging...

This is it...